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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!

Perfect peppers - St. David's Hydroponics Grows them for shipment across North America (NiagaraThisWeek.com) (31 May 2008)
They harvest about 75 kilos of giant, perfect peppers each week. St. David's Hydroponics is a whopping 17 1/2 acres of agricultural activity under glass -- and it's hot. As I walked through the thousands of eight-foot tall pepper plants, workers were harvesting red peppers. Huge trailers full and overflowing with glistening, beautiful peppers were being wheeled into the packaging area to be sorted by size and packaged by weight. Boxes were piled high, waiting for shipment to grocery stores that would offer these tasty peppers within 24 hours of being picked. Now that's fresh!

Rotary Speaker Explains Plan for 'Nuclear Green Farms' (MercuryNews.com) (30 May 2008)
Hydroponic farms, used to grow produce, herbs and plants without soil, would be built around the desalination plants. Surrounding the hydroponic farms are aquatic farms. The idea is to have the collection of farms circle the nuclear power plant in the middle. The farm would resemble a series of concentric circles. Sayre said other countries such as Germany, France and England use hydroponic farms, and Japan is in the midst of doing developing its own. "There are about 30,000 acres of hydroponic farms worldwide, but only about 800 acres in California," he said.

Shoppers Browse Island Farmers Market (BradentonHerald.com) (24 Jun 2008)
"Hydroponics will be the way of the future," said Norm Whitlow, who brought a selection of heirloom tomatoes, green peppers and Swiss Chard grown on his farm in Palmetto. Since February, he and his wife, Kathy, have grown several varieties of heirloom tomatoes using hydroponics - foam growing pots containing crushed coconut shells, not soil. Shoppers find them delicious.

Support Jersey Growers (gmnews) (06 Jun 2008)
There's more than just vegetables for sale at New Jersey's farm stands this growing season. Buying locally grown products will help New Jerseyans reduce their carbon footprints, improve their health, and help state farmers keep their land out of the hands of developers. When residents purchase Jersey-grown food, they are reducing energy and oil consumption, since doing so does not require the same shipping and transportation efforts. They are also reducing pollution for the same reasons and because in most cases less packaging is involved.

The Great Indoors (The Sydney Morning Herald) (14 Jun 2008)
Vertical gardens are helping turn sick office space into a breath of fresh air. Those lucky enough to have sipped a pre-flight G'n'T in Qantas's first class lounge at Sydney International Airport couldn't have failed to notice that several of the interior walls are growing. Called "greenwalls", the vertical gardens cover 280 square metres and feature 8400 plants, a living wall of ferns and flowers that, in the words of the horticulturist Mark Paul, "not only soften what might otherwise be a fairly hard environment, but make an appreciable difference to air quality". The lounge gardens are one of a hundred or so greenwalls installed by Paul's Sydney firm, Greenwall Company, in the past six years. "Demand is definitely on the increase," he says. "In the beginning the biggest jobs were under 10 square metres: now they can be up to several thousand square metres. Most people put them in because they are pretty green fixtures, but people are slowly realising their potential for cleaning air."

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.

The Green Wonderwall (Manchester Evening News) (28 May 2008)
A Gardner with a head for heights is going to be needed for an amazing vertical garden of tropical plants being planned for the side of a Manchester building. The 100ft green wall - the first of its kind in Britain and the largest in Europe - is to be laid out up the side of the former BT building and will be visible from the Mancunian Way. It will be transformed as part of Ask Development's £750m Central Spine project, a 20-acre mixed-use scheme on the southern edge of the city centre.

The Power Within (deccanherald.com) (27 May 2008)
On the island of Unst in the UK is one of the world's greenest houses, a 'zero carbon' home powered entirely by the wind and the sun. Life on the most northerly inhabited island in Britain can be very tough indeed. On Unst the winters are harsh, and the winds brutal and relentless, regularly sweeping across the treeless landscape at more than 100 mph.

The Urban Farmer: One Man's Crusade to Plough up the Inner City (The Independent) (01 Jun 2008)
Is it realistic to turn over our spare urban soil to the cause - and is there really enough of it to do so? Erik Watson, an urban design director at the town-planning company Turley Associates, strongly believes that inner-city agriculture is the future. As such, he is already advising his clients on ways to incorporate farming into their developments and is particularly excited about the potential for transforming existing space enclosed in the traditionally British city structure, the "perimeter block" (a row of buildings constructed around an enclosed, private square - typically divided into private gardens).

Tomato Shortage Isn’t Bad News for Everyone (The Mining Journal) (14 Jun 2008)
While many restaurants and grocery stores are putting up signs alerting customers that tomatoes will not be available on sandwiches and salads until a national recall has ended, some businesses are seeing a brighter side. Farmer Q's Market on Washington Street in downtown Marquette is one of the few that still has the familiar red fruit on the shelves. "We are totally still selling tomatoes," said Susan Brian, the owner of the market. "We do have tomatoes from out of state, but they are hydroponic and not from the areas that have the warnings."

U-Pick-It Farm: Alternative to High Prices (tampabays10.com) (26 May 2008)
The owners of Hydro Harvest Farms want everyone in the Bay area to know that their farm is a one stop alternative to the high price in the produce aisle at the grocery stores. Terrie and John Lawson got the idea to open their own farm from a newspaper three years ago. They read how a Plant City farmer was using hydroponics to grow his strawberry crops. So, they took a piece of land they owned on Shell Fish Road in Ruskin and turned it into Hydro Harvest Farms.

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