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            <title>Urban Farms Grow &amp;amp; Sell Fruits and Veggies in the City (philly.com)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Greensgrow Farm is a little bit country and a lot urban. Situated on the reclaimed - and cleaned up - site of a former steel-galvanizing factory in Kensington, the nonprofit organic farm grows a wide variety of produce, including heirloom lettuces, peppers and tomatoes, and also acts as a crop clearinghouse for small farmers from South Jersey to Lancaster County. &quot;I want to ensure the supply line between rural producers and urban consumers,&quot; said &quot;chief farm hand&quot; Mary Seton Corboy. Greensgrow was co-founded 10 years ago by Corboy, a former chef with a master's degree in political science who had little agricultural experience but definite ideas about the good an urban farm could accomplish: The enterprise aims both to shorten the distance from farm to city table and to educate the public on the importance of buying fresh and local.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:00:15 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>1974 Newton Grad Hopes to Reinvent the World One Solar Panel at a Time (njherald.com)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It works on a multilayered aquaponic system. A fishpond holds water and nutrients that are pumped into a 15-foot, space-age steel arch with a coconut-fiber mat growing surface. The water is then channeled back into the fish pond, where it is purified by microorganisms. The water pumps are powered by solar panels and wind turbines. Everything is recycled, and it's efficient -- as little as 10 percent of the water required for normal gardening would be needed -- and even that could be provided by bathwater or from other normally unusable sources.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:34:50 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Interest Grows in Hydroponics (Leader Times)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[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. &quot;It's very controlled,&quot; Randy Slama said. &quot;You don't need pesticides, you don't need herbicides, there's no weeds.&quot;]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:44:36 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Shoppers Browse Island Farmers Market (BradentonHerald.com)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[&quot;Hydroponics will be the way of the future,&quot; 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.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:33:09 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Home Grown (Greater Houston Weekly)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:11:59 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>North American Greenhouse Hothouse Vegetable Growers Association Announces &amp;quot;Certified ...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In light of recent food safety issues such as the tomato salmonella scare, the NAGHVG wants customers to know that &quot;Certified Greenhouse&quot; 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.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:22:19 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>At Epcot, Hydroponics and Mickey Mouse Pumpkins (CNET News.com)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[One of the lesser-known secrets of the theme park is its &quot;Behind the Seeds&quot; tour, an hour-long walking tour of the site's sustainable greenhouses and fish farming operations. The purpose behind the project--which was the very first attraction at Epcot--is partly to provide fresh produce and fish to Epcot's many restaurants. But as Tiffany Sterrett, the biotech intern who led the tour explained, &quot;It's also for demonstrating things that could be done (in agriculture), and what could be used in cities and warehouses.&quot; Essentially, she continued, the idea is to showcase how to grow great food in places where there is poor soil or no soil. The vegetables and fruit growing in the greenhouses, in fact, aren't planted in soil at all, but use entirely hydroponic methods. Here, a tomato plant hangs down from a rotating rack, its roots having just emerged from a system in which the roots are sprayed with a nutrient mix as the plant glides along the track.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:02:15 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Tomato Shortage Isnt Bad News for Everyone (The Mining Journal)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:59:02 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>The Great Indoors (The Sydney Morning Herald)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[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 &quot;greenwalls&quot;, 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, &quot;not only soften what might otherwise be a fairly hard environment, but make an appreciable difference to air quality&quot;. The lounge gardens are one of a hundred or so greenwalls installed by Paul's Sydney firm, Greenwall Company, in the past six years. &quot;Demand is definitely on the increase,&quot; he says. &quot;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.&quot;]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:56:25 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Welcome to Thanet Earth: The Biggest Greenhouse in Britain Unveiled (Evening Standard)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[You've heard of the factory chicken. Now meet the factory vegetable. Grown in their millions in trays of nutrient-enriched water inside a heated, artificially-lit greenhouse large enough to house ten football pitches, they are as far as you can get from 'natural' home-grown food. But this week, workers are putting the finishing touches to Britain's largest hydroponic greenhouse - an astonishing construction in white steel and glass. By the time the site is complete in 2010, another six massive greenhouses will have been constructed, providing a home to more than 1.3million tomato, pepper and cucumber plants - grown hydroponically, without soil.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:38:14 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Bad Tomato, Good Tomato (Rexburg Standard Journal)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[There have been 167 cases of salmonella nationwide, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Two of them were in western Idaho. After interviewing people who have fallen ill with salmonella, officials think the salmonella serotype, or strain, Saintpaul is being carried by large tomatoes. Those who were interviewed fell ill between mid-April to late May. Broulim's Produce Manager Rich Ballard said that hydroponic tomatoes, which are grown in a greenhouse in a controlled environment, and vine tomatoes are still safe to eat.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:17:06 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Valley Teen Ranch to Create Hydroponics Farm (Madera Tribune)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Valley Teen Ranch in Madera, which houses and cares for at-risk youths, has adopted a plan to develop the ranch further into a working farm - using hydroponics. The new plan includes growing fruits and vegetables hydroponically on virgin acreage in south Madera County. Boys living on the ranch will have the opportunity to learn about agriculture business and science, marketing, nutrition and more.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:36:45 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Hydroponics: An Interesting New Way to Grow Plants (Killeen Daily Herald)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:48:22 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Vendors Bring Early Produce, Arts, Crafts to New Season of Great Falls Farmers' Market ...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Great Falls Farmers' Market offers one-stop shopping for the brightest blooms; radishes, rhubarb and green onions fresh out of gardens that will yield truckloads of produce in a few weeks; assorted pies, breads and other homemade goodies, some even for furry family members; handcrafted items like jewelry, clothing, blankets, birdhouses, soaps, candles and wands; photography, paintings and a lot more.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:46:53 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Support Jersey Growers (gmnews)</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:23:08 +0100</pubDate>
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