Classroom Aquaponics: Kids Gain Healthy Experience
Small hydroponic and aquaponic systems are perfect for use in classrooms, but when it comes to teaching kids what offers both them and the Earth healthier options, aquaponics wins hands…
How Hydroponics, Aquaponics, And Vertical Farming Are Helping End Hunger
Before any of us ever knew about COVID-19, we knew the world was facing a food crisis. The United Nations says a growing population means food production must increase by 60% by 2050. Meanwhile, increased urbanization and conventional agricultural practices have usable land and water depleting rapidly. The global pandemic has only compounded the issue […]
Plants You Can Grow In Just Water
Do you have a container and some water? Great. You now have pretty much all you need to start growing some plants in your home. What about the dirt, you ask? Well, for the plants I am going to tell you about, the soil isn’t needed! It may take a little longer than using old […]
Study Finds Climate Change Will Expand Globe’s Agricultural Land
Living in the Canadian province of Quebec, I’ve dreamed of having a longer outdoor growing season. Like many places, our summers are beautiful here, but far too short. A new study says I might one day get my wish, but that’s not necessarily a good thing. Published in the journal PLOS ONE, the findings suggest […]
Washington State Makes Waves with Fish Farm Ban
The best salmon I ever had in my life was wild pacific at this beautiful restaurant in Revelstoke, B.C. It was unlike anything I’ve ever tasted. Quick side note here: it also happened to be one of the worst dining experiences of all time. My husband and I commonly refer to it as “that night […]
Green Living Inside and Out
There’s a lot more to being green and living a sustainable life than recycling, composting and organizing an occasional carpool. I came across the most stunning home designed to incorporate all the green features one can in an urban location. They call this green living house, “Aquas Perma Solar Firma” – or at least the […]
What Is Vertical Gardening?
The perfect way to increase your possible food production in a small space without reducing harvest quality! While square foot gardening has its uses, vertical gardening gives plants better air flow, which in turn, reduces pest and disease issues. Better still, you’re not limited to growing in soil. In fact, you don’t need any ground […]
Inflatable DWC: World’s Most Versatile Hydroponics System
A hydroponics system that is really three systems in one, and then some. Designed in Wales, a grower can use it as aeroponics, deep water culture with bubbleponics magic inside, and easily turn it into aquaponics by adding fish to the nutrient supply line.
Diary of an Indoor Grower: Hydroponics Garden Evolution
The only thing that hasn’t changed in my hydroponics garden is its dimensions. It is just over 70 Sq feet (6.6 X 11.2).with 8-foot ceilings. Otherwise, it is in a constant state of flux. Lights, systems, nutrients, fans, controllers, you name it I have changed it. Part of the reason is that I have, especially […]
Huge Urban Farming Complex Coming to Shanghai
Urban farming is no stranger in Shanghai. There are small, soil-based growing operations scattered around the metropolis. In fact, a century ago much of Shanghai’s food supply came from 300,000 hectares of farmland that ringed the city. But like many cities, population growth and urban sprawl did away with most agricultural land on the perimeter. […]
Rooftop Hydroponic Farms in Tel Aviv, Israel
Green In The City (Yarok Bair in Hebrew) occupies the roof of the four-level parking garage. It’s started as a collaborative partnership between the mall and local LivinGreen, an urban gardening equipment and training company. Dizengof Center may very well be the greenest bastion of consumerism in the world. The winner of the 2015 Green […]
Canada’s 1st Aquaponic Food Bank Farm
Providing healthy foods isn’t easy for food banks, especially in communities with a large disadvantaged population. The aquaponic food bank farm offers these non-profits a solution to the dilemma of an inadequate supply of fresh foods. Not just because of its combination of meat and vegetable harvests, the system is also highly sustainable. So, it’s […]
Off-Grid Aquaponics Village
An amazing new housing development is due to rise in Almere, Netherlands this summer. A self-sufficient village with aquaponics and organic food production at it’s core. It’s a world’s first in truly sustainable living that surpasses all other attempts at green living communities to date by using already available technology to create off-grid living on […]
World’s 1st Aquaponic Smart Garden
Did you park your aquarium and give up on fish because it’s just too much hassle cleaning the tank? Guess what… an aquaponic smart garden cleans it for you, turning that gunk into fertilizer for safe, fresh food grown at home. Well, that would be the scenario – if you had an AquaGarden. Aquaponics Is Organic […]
India’s New Urban Farm Project
While still in planning stages, this exciting new urban farm community is more than just some ambition concept. The incredibly beautiful Hyperions garden towers will be built in Jaypee Sports City near Delhi and completed by 2020. It’s a residential development that features all kinds of ecological attributes and was designed with full sustainability in mind. Instead […]
Fresh Catch: Aquaponics News
Despite those who can’t see the importance of adopting highly sustainable methods of growing food, the interest in and practice of aquaponics continues to spread to more places in the world. Normally, I’d share one new item, but this week there are several. Why wait till some are stale? Muscat, Oman: There have been aquaponics […]
Homefarm: Holistic Agrihood for Seniors
It’s really more of an agriplex combining vertical farming, aquaponics, raised bed and organic gardening into a residential development for senior citizens with shopping, recreation, employment, and health care facilities on the grounds. But since no one else is using that term, we’ll stick with it being a ‘holistic agrihood’. The concept pairs urban agriculture with retirement living […]
Sustainable Hydroponics
Cow Patty Hydroponics that is. Not as a means of plant nutrients, as many will instantly assume. No this enterprising Wisconsin dairy farmer generates all the energy to run a sizable greenhouse hydroponic farm with cow manure. It all began back in 2002 when the concern over climate change was heating up. John Vrieze started […]
Swapping Pigs for Aquaponic Farming
After 25 years the hogs are gone, and the aquaponics tanks are going in. Not that the pork business is belly up, Rob Davis, a second generation pig farmer in Lodi, Wisconsin made a fair living raising pigs. But life is all about changes, and his path to switching to naturally grown foods and aquaponic […]
5 Growing Hydroponic Trends
In the fall of 2012 when we launched our original website the world at large viewed hydroponics much differently than today. Most news related to hydroponic gardening were pot growing busts, followed by a smattering of school biology projects, and some food producer startups. There were actually places in the world brimming with technology where […]