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Students Learn To Grow Without Soil

February 26, 2010 Hydroponics

Logan Salmons writes in the Arizona newspaper, Casa Grande Dispatch,
Soil’s popularity is eroding as hydroponic gardening blossoms among students.
Casa Grande Union High School’s agriculture program is embracing a modern technique of agriculture. Hydroponic gardening is the process of growing vegetation without the use of soil.
Instead, plants develop in one of four hydro methods. Steven Sipes’ [...]

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Basement Hydroponics System Sprouts A Winter Garden

February 26, 2010 Hydroponics

Edward M. Eveld writes in The Kansas City Star,
It’s spring in Dave Howe’s basement. Or maybe early summer.
He has already harvested a crop of romaine and buttercrunch lettuce, and his tomato plants are green, leafy and flowering. He recently started some strawberries.
Howe’s oasis at his home in Blue Springs, all the more notable during this [...]

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Hydroponic Window Farms In NYC Apartments

February 22, 2010 Environment

The ongoing buzz in various academia circles (architecture, design, landscape and agriculture) is all about vertical urban farms in and on the sides of urban buildings and skyscrapers.
But some creative folks are taking those large scale, high technological concepts, designing and dumbing them down into smaller scale systems and then building systems that can hang [...]

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Aquaponics In The New York Times

February 18, 2010 Greenhouses

Whenever hydroponics or aquaponics gets  mentioned in an article in the mainstream media, it is a good thing. It changes the public’s perception that those horticultural techniques are only for growing illegal plants to understanding that they can be used to grow vegetables, herbs and flowers for everyday use both on a commercial farm scale [...]

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Dorm Project Springs With Green

February 15, 2010 Hydroponics

The Living Center South dormitory at Saginaw Valley State University has a hydroponic system growing basil and other herbs. Alyssa Tarrant writes in The Valley Vangard,
If you walk into Living Center South, it’s hard to miss the large hydroponic system affectionately known as the SECS machine.
The system, whose name is pronounced like “sex machine,” uses [...]

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Winter Farmers Market In Concord, NH

January 31, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

All across the country, an increasing number of farmers markets are operating year round as more farmers have produce and other value added products to offer consumers. Eleanor Baron writes on the NourishingWords.net blog about one in the northeast in the middle of a cold winter day,
Let there be no doubt that Concord, New Hampshire [...]

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How To Build Your Own Lettuce Raft System

January 27, 2010 Hydroponics

Keith Roberto writes in the Urban Garden magazine on how to build your own simple and small floating raft lettuce system,
There are many ways to grow lettuce hydroponically. Here’s a system that’s simple, inexpensive ($20-$30 complete) and “complex” enough to satisfy any first timer’s appetite for a fun project that actually works pretty well. It’s [...]

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Tow And Grow Hydroponics Trailer For Mobile Growing

January 11, 2010 Farm/Garden Politics

I have no idea if anybody is actually using this elaborate traveling garden but who knows… It was on display outside an exhibit hall in Las Vegas at an expo that just ended this past weekend.
osting $75,000 each, if you want to buy one, this 30 foot long trailer with a bank of 1,000 watt [...]

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Peter’s Swimming Pool To Growing Pond Adventure

December 11, 2009 Aquaponics

This is a video story, in 33 parts, of Peter’s transformation of his backyard patio in ground family swimming pool, which was cracked, leaking and ready to collapse, into a pond growing fish and veggies aquaponically. The two videos below are the start of the transformation to the final stage. For the 31 other videos [...]

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New York City Hydroponic Window Farm

November 7, 2009 Hydroponics

Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray live in New York City, in an apartment, and don’t have any outdoor land to grow a garden, or a patio, or even a fire escape to grow in containers. So in February of 2009, they created WindowFarms to grow in do it yourself hydroponic systems made out of recycled [...]

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