Growing Methods

There are many different ways to successfully grow your own; explore different options and choose what’s right for you with our complete guides.

Tech Trends: LED Grow Lights Have Come A Long Way

Luis Rivera

Technology is modifying and improving almost all fields and businesses today, and the agriculture and growing industries are no exception. Recently, lights entered the game and modified the traditional understanding of growing, and today, LED grow lights are making a massive breakthrough on their way to setting a new norm. Here are the top 5…

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Garden Culture Tours World’s First Commercial Rooftop Greenhouse

It’s not every day you get to tour a farm that has revolutionized the way food is grown and how people eat. Lufa Farms built the world’s first commercial rooftop greenhouse on an industrial building in Montreal, Canada. Depending strictly on hydroponics, crops are grown year-round and produce high-yields, feeding the city in an incredibly…
June 6, 2018
Catherine Sherriffs

Lufa Farms: A Model For Feeding Cities And Reconnecting People To Food

Fixing a broken food system and reconnecting people with the food they eat is no easy task. But Lufa Farms in Montreal is doing it. With three rooftop greenhouses spread out across the city, Lufa has 140,000 sq. ft. of growing space dedicated to feeding the city. Look for our upcoming blog on how it…
June 5, 2018
Catherine Sherriffs

Quality Over Quantity: Modern Farming Company Changing The Foodscape

Quantity over quality; that just about sums up today’s food industry. We want lots of food, we want it fast, and we want it cheap. So, we turn to mass-produced foods that are often genetically modified and full of chemicals, herbicides and other things we shouldn’t be eating. And Then There’s The Weather… We put…
May 30, 2018
Catherine Sherriffs

Hydroponic Help: Government Grants For Farmers Making The Switch

We love hearing from our readers, and just recently, we got a great question about what kind of government support there is for people looking to start farming with hydroponics. This is such a timely topic! The world’s population is currently at 7.6 billion people, and it’s projected to hit 9.7 billion by the year…
April 11, 2018
Catherine Sherriffs

New To Hydroponic Gardening? What Beginners Need to Know

Hydroponics is a technique used to grow plants in a nutrient-rich, water-based solution. There is no soil involved; instead, the root systems of the plants are supported in inert mediums like vermiculite, moss, perlite, peat, Rockwool or clay pellets. The basic idea behind starting a hydroponic garden is to allow the roots of a plant…
April 9, 2018
Michelle Whyte