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The Hydroponic Garden--A Guide to Hydroponics
Hydroponics allows us to grow the plants, fruits and vegetables of our choice--even in limited space--without using soil. It's an amazing way to produce perfect specimens and offers TONS of advantages that traditional gardening can't come close to touching!

Historic Lewes Farmers Market Expands to 38 Vendors (CapeGazette.com) (05 Jun 2008)
Farmers markets play an important part in America's food system. The number of farmers markets continues to grow in this country. They give local farmers the ability to sell food they raise directly to customers. These markets serve as important vehicles for economic growth, both for producers and for the business community where they are located. They allow consumers to purchase fresh food grown by local farmers, they help create new farms and support ones that are already in business. They help create activity in towns and neighborhoods, and serve as important gathering places for building vibrant communities. Farmers markets reconnect people with one another, the land and the source of their food.

Home Grown (Greater Houston Weekly) (23 Jun 2008)
The Bayou City Farmers' Market in Upper Kirby has barely been open for an hour on this Saturday morning and this is Pole's first time as a seller. He doesn't even have a sign up. But he does have a plate of freshly sliced heirlooms with a shaker of sea salt on the table. Just one juicy taste, and the line gets longer. Timora Pole is busy weighing produce and bagging the ripe veggies, while Ed Pole makes change as fast as he can. No one leaves the line with less than a pound of tomatoes. The Poles, like many growers, started out as hobbyists. Their Humble home sits on a half acre at the end of a cul-de-sac, complete with a greenhouse Ed Pole has fitted with his own hydroponics system.

How to Make an Indoor Hydroponic Garden (25 May 2008)
If you want to learn how to make an indoor hydroponic garden, you need to know the difference between an active hydroponic area and a passive one. Active hydroponic systems pass a nutrient solution over the plant roots. You will need a large sized planting medium like vermiculite, perlite and pea gravel. To make an indoor hydroponic system passively, you will be providing a system that uses a wick or capillary system to feed your plants.

Hydroponics - Relief for Food Contamination Stress! (29 May 2008)
Food recalls have reached an all-time high, causing many of us to stress over our produce choices like never before. Add to the food recalls the facts that fruit and vegetables often travel long distances and are often stored up to two years before reaching the grocery store shelves, it's no wonder more and more people would like to be able to grow at least some of their own produce. Thanks to hydroponics, you can-and you don't even need soil! That's because hydroponics is a method of growing various plants and vegetables using a water solution that's rich in the nutrients plants need in order to thrive.

Hydroponics: An Interesting New Way to Grow Plants (Killeen Daily Herald) (08 Jun 2008)
Forget everything you know about plant growing. It doesn't necessarily take water, sunlight and soil to make healthy vegetables, fruits and herbs. Lots of people are taking advantage of a new system that only requires the first two: sunlight and water. The result has been bigger plants, juicier vegetables and easier maintenance - something any new gardener can appreciate.

Self Sufficient Life
Learn about keeping And raising chickens and poultry, growing your own fruit and vegetables, herbal remedies, how to build your own greenhouse, and hydroponic gardening. Today, hydroponics is used in a variety of settings. Wherever soil is unavailable, hydroponic gardening seems to appear. Wildcatters on offshore oilrigs grow their own tomatoes. Cooks on nuclear submarines hydroponically grow vegetables to use in there crew's meals. Right now, plants are growing on orbiting space stations without a single grain of soil.

Interest Grows in Hydroponics (Leader Times) (25 Jun 2008)
Randy and Leona Slama started growing their own lettuce after their daughter had a skin reaction to store-bought and organic varieties. The red oak leaf and romaine lettuce the Slamas grow in their Shay, Kittanning Township, greenhouse is done hydroponically -- in a nutrient-infused water solution -- making it safe from potential contaminants such as insects and animals. "It's very controlled," Randy Slama said. "You don't need pesticides, you don't need herbicides, there's no weeds."

It's Never a Dirty Job (augustachronicle.com) (25 May 2008)
Jeff McDanel never gets dirt under his fingernails. There isn't any to sully his hands in the greenhouse he maintains just south of Aiken. It's such an effective system that his vines measure 45 feet long at the end of the growing system, with tomatoes as large as softballs, he said.

Magnet Program Turns Thumbs Green (courier-journal.com) (01 Jun 2008)
Ulysses Gober didn't know much about planting or landscaping before he signed up for the agriscience magnet program at Seneca High School. Three years into the program, the 18-year-old senior has learned all about soil types, hydroponics, aquaculture, greenhouse production, landscape design and even sports turf management.

Mother's Mini-Manual Hydroponics - Animal Forage (27 May 2008)
Hydroponic sprouting for animals is popular all over the world with farmers, ranchers, horsemen, and zoos. It is a compact, simple, and cheap way to produce high-quality green forage for house pets or farm animals. A space 20 feet long and 8 feet high can turn out a thousand pounds of greens every day, all year round. Any kind of grass or cereal grains can be sprouted—rye, oats, barley, alfalfa, etc. The nutrient solution increases the food value of the final product. It takes about seven to ten days to go from seed to an eight?inch mat of greens, packed with vitamins and minerals.

North American Greenhouse Hothouse Vegetable Growers Association Announces "Certified Greenhouse" Program (Yahoo! News) (19 Jun 2008)
In light of recent food safety issues such as the tomato salmonella scare, the NAGHVG wants customers to know that "Certified Greenhouse" vegetables such as tomatoes, bell peppers and cucumbers are grown indoors according to standards that include food safe, controlled hydroponic production and sustainable indoor growing practices.

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