Find out how a New York company has transformed a rooftop into a hydroponic farm that can produce up to 100 tons of organic herbs and vegetables year-round using hydroponics methods. A leading example of a successful business that is seemingly out of its place in the big apple.
From farm to table – the movement where farming and restaurant businesses are combining to cut out the middle man and bring fresher, tastier produce direct from the farm to the restaurant table. Read this post to find out how the businesses of Rainbow Harvest Hydroponic Greenhouse and Truth Restaurant have combined to produce a synergistic partnership.
What a great idea. An aquaponics system that is being used to provide for people that are less well off – the homeless and those without jobs. Read this post to find out how Sahib Punjabi used principles he learnt from Murray Hallam and other aquaponics gardeners to build this aquaponics system.
Vertical hydroponics gardens can be found in the most unique places. Take a city wall for example. Read this post to find out where and how a vertical hydroponics system is being used as an advertisement billboard.
The use of fish in hydroponics gardening is called aquaponics. Find out in this post how plants and fish, as they have been doing since the beginning of time, are able to support the growth of each other in this back yard ecosystem.
Vertical hydroponics gardening is the most efficient hydroponics method around, in terms of being able to produce the highest yields of crop per unit area. Read this post to find out the most common types of vertical hydroponics methods, what they have in common, and how they differ.
Once you’ve grown a few crops of hydroponics plants, you may have thought of whether it would be possible to sell them and turn your initial hobby into a small home-based business. Read this post to find out what to do to start your business, and the best types of hydroponics plants to grow to sell.
The Autopot is a fantastic hydroponics system design, mimicing the ebb-and-flow (or flood-and-drain) hydroponics system, however with significant advantages. Read this post to find out how this system maximises utilisation of hydroponic nutrients and how regularly monitoring and adjusting pH and nutrient concentration is thing of the past.
Hydroponics gardening can not only be used to grow vegetables and fruit such as tomatoes, strawberries, and lettuce, but it can also be used to grow fodder for livestock. Read this post to learn how a 60 square metre greenhouse is being used to grow 2 tons of barley grass fodder for cattle each week.
Vertical hydroponics farming may be the farming method of the future. Read this post to see how efficient it is in saving space, fertilisers, pesticides, herbicides, and water, producing higher crop yields per unit area than could ever be achieved using conventional soil farming techniques.