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Snoopy & Charlie Brown Find the Great Pumpkin for a Hydroponics Halloween

Giant Vegetable grower James Dodson teams with Advanced Nutrients to grow world record giant pumpkin and win 1st Prize in Vermont Fair.

As Snoopy and Charlie Brown and the other Peanuts kids scan the skies for the arrival of the Great Pumpkin, the real Great Pumpkin is growing in Vermont just in time for Halloween.

According to hydroponics industry leaders Evegeniy Stefanov Yordanov, Michael Straumietis, and Robert Charles Higgins, great big pumpkins and other humongous, tasty vegetables, fruits and flowers are being grown with hydroponics fertilizers and techniques.

Straumietis, Higgins and Yordanov are known as worldwide #1 authorities on hydroponics and bigger yields. They are the founders of the Seattle-based hydroponics nutrients company Advanced Nutrients, which manufactures and distributes highly-respected professional hydroponics products internationally.
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Pumpkin Patches and Hay Rides Kick off the Airlie Harvest Festival.

Aaron Kennel negotiated a bale squeezer around his Airlie Hills Family Farm like an artist, which in a way he is.

It was nearly Harvest Festival time at the farm, and Kennel was finishing a three-day effort of sculpting a hay pyramid, a hay maze and a hay fort using about 100 of the 1,000-pound bales he stores on the property behind a big old red barn.
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Urban Garden Magazine. Written by growers, read by growers.

British hydroponics enthusiast, Dan Fox, had long enjoyed sharing his passion for indoor gardening through his blog and Internet forums. But last year he decided that to take things a step further and launch a new magazine dedicated to a new emerging generation of gardening enthusiasts in Britain. His vision was simple: to produce a magazine written by growers, for growers.

It wasn’t difficult to find some like-minded fellows within the hydroponics industry and together with an ace design team they launched the UK edition of “Urban Garden Magazine” back in April 2007. The publication was an instant success. All 30,000 copies were snapped up at hydroponics retailers across the United Kingdom and his email inbox was jammed full of messages of support and congratulations. Dan and his colleagues quickly realised they’d tapped into something really, really big!

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Bently Mills Hydroponics business’ are growing

Bently Mills would not be where he is today were it not for the help and support of his parents and wife, Kelly. “I would have failed a long time ago without each one of their support,” he said.

Bently runs several hydroponics operations. “At BJ’s, we produce food safely without the use of harmful pesticides and herbicides; we conserve water and have a very low impact on the environment,” he said. “We can produce on 1 acre what would take a conventional farm 20 acres.”

Mills started out growing tomatoes after his father’s teaching as a professor at University of Georgia sparked his interest. He currently has switched one shop, BJ’s produce to growing lettuce, basil and cilantro. The other, Flora Hydroponics is currently assisting UGA researchers in studying how algae can produce fuel.

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Temporary Teacher, Lifetime lesson

Ian Coutts may be a temporary teacher, but he is teaching something these kids will hopefully keep with them forever. He is teaching his students how to grow fruits and veggies at Goonellabah and Manifold Public School.

“It’s cool and it’s fun and we get healthy food… and it saves us from doing school work!” 11-year-old Goonellabah Public School student Jamie Saunderson said. “I’m going to grow vegies at home now… dad’s going to put a fence around a spot I’ve picked out and we’re going to make a garden together.”
That is the type of response that Ian was looking for.
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Lifetime Entrepreneurial award for Jim Sing

Jim Sing, the 80-year-old hydroponic farmer, was recently honoured with the Lifetime Entrepreneurial Award at the Golden Mountain gala for Chinese achievements for his contribution to the hydroponics industry.

“It’s a real honor to get an award with so many great people,” said Sing. “I’m just a farmer. Nobody knows me from a tree of tomato.” The youngest of nine, Sing knew the greenhouse business since he was 5. His father had bought a green house back when a pound of tomatoes cost half his daily wage.

“I didn’t like it. It wasn’t for me.”
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Hydroponics: the ease it can offer

The hydroponics industry has been growing within the recent years. Such growth has been influenced by the need to have a more efficient and cost-effective agriculture system. But let us first define hydroponics. Hydroponics is the system of plant culture such that there is a less need for soil, or soil less agriculture. This technology has been tapped due to its accessibility and flexibility both for the local household gardening or even for commercial agricultural production.

Hydroponics involves a system where the plant is introduced with a nutrient solution. This nutrients solution becomes a ready alternative for soil. The past decade marked a great breakthrough in agricultural efficiency and quality. A realistic example is the use of hydroponics in tomato production in the Canada.
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Hydroponics for Everyone!

Ms. Rusiski recalls her childhood friends looking at her as though she was crazy. She was talking to her friends about her Aunt Peg. “I asked my classmates, ‘Who helps you build things and make things and helps you bake cupcakes, and who walks you to the library?” She just assumed every family has an aunt peg. Read more

Australia focuses on aquaponics

The Skrettings Australasian Aquaculture International Conference and Trade Show in Brisbane, Queensland, is planning on hosting seminars about aquaponics. Aquaponic farming is the process of growing fish and vegetables in one system. The plants use the fish waste for nutrients, and cleaning the water for the fish. City spaces are ideal for this practice, especially rooftops.

The five speakers (Wilson Lennard, Ph.D., Mike Nichols, Ph.D., Nick Savidov, Ph.D., Rebecca Nelson, and Geoff Wilson) have a great deal of expertise in practical aquaponics setups in Canada, the U.S. New Zealand, and the United States.

Their goal is to encourage school to start aquaponics farms on the rooftops where the equipment is out of the way, and safely held.

Farming organically and hydroponically

People in the Wiregrass region have been noticing that there is some money to be made in agriculture. Many even go against the grain by taking an all natural approach to growing.

Two methods of alternative farming are commonly used. One is organic and the other is called ‘clean growing’. Using both methods no pesticides or chemical fertilizer is used. Fertilizers and pesticides can leave residues on plants, but it isn’t a worry with methods like growing organic and hydroponics.
“It’s fresher because it’s here, it’s local, so you’re not getting all the herbicides and pesticides and that sort of thing, which strawberries are a big problem of,” explains Paula Hennig. If you notice the price is slightly higher for organically grown foods, it’s because the grower cannot grow as much, and more of the crop is destroyed by pests and disease.

If you’d like to know more about growing natural, an Organic Farming Workshop is scheduled for Tuesday July 29th at The Gathering Place in Headland. For more information, you can call the Wiregrass Resource Conservation and Development Council at 334-774-2334.

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