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Hydroponic head of the class.

Students at Chiles Elementary are learning how to grow lettuce, but not the way you might think. Sharon Cutler is teaching students how to grow lettuce hydroponically, not only that she is teaching them how to do so while reducing their carbon footprint.

Cutler is using the money she received from a $1000 grant from general motors and discovery education. She was among 40 educators in the U.S. to be named winners of the live green teacher grant program.
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Costlier than Gold, platinum, and just about anything else

Everyone’s favorite nutrient manufacturer Advanced Nutrients is playing with nutrient compounds that probably cost more than your house… per gram. The research focuses on auxins, gibberellins, cytokinins and other growth hormones, can cost $500 000 per gram. The research is to determine the effects of these designer compounds on plant flowering, root growth, and plant health.

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Aussie Scientist has a mission

An Australian scientist is on a mission of a different kind at an international aquaculture conference this week, hoping to raise $100,000 for a fish farm project in Africa – funded by fellow delegates.

Steve Magarry’s been working on the Rwanda Village of Hope project in his own time after hearing about volunteers who’d built homes for widows and orphans who survived the country’s genocide in 1994.

He says other countries could also adopt the system but he needs a thousand dollars from a hundred Australian companies to make it happen.

“We’re looking at an aquaponics project which is to grow your aquaculture of your fish but also hydroponic fruit vegetables and value added products,” he said.

“The bottom line is food security and poverty reduction and the aquaponics and sustainable development is something that we can put towards making a real difference.”

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Military Gardens

Joseph Trigg has a hobby common to many here at the hydroponics dictionary. Hydroponics.
“I started growing hydroponic lettuce almost 20 years ago,” stated the retired air force sergeant.

“The military has a lot of different hydroponic processes and I’ve had a hydroponic garden wherever I was stationed.”
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Home Hydroponics to combat high cost

An increasing number of Americans are turning to home hydroponics gardening to offset high gasoline, petroleum, energy and food prices.

According to hydroponics industry leaders Michael Straumietis, Robert C. Higgins and Gino Yordanov, more and more Americans are growing their very own fresh fruit and vegetables to save money, time and transportation costs.

Prices for petroleum, food, gasoline and energy are going way up and they’ll keep going up. Pretty soon, it’s going to be a matter of necessity that you have your own garden so you can ensure a continuous supply of healthy fruits and vegetables for your family.
Straumietis, Higgins and Yordanov are founders of a Seattle-based hydroponics nutrients company called Advanced Nutrients (http://www.advancednutrients.com). The company manufactures and distributes a wide range of professional hydroponics products worldwide.

“Americans are sick and tired of paying high gas prices, driving to grocery stores, and paying high food prices too,” Michael Straumietis explains. “They’re tired of high energy prices. So they’re turning to home-based farming, and it’s paying off.”

According to Advanced Nutrients co-founder Robert C. Higgins, Americans are finding out that hydroponics gardening combines with traditional gardening techniques to produce quality food at a fraction of the cost of buying it from grocery stores.

“You use hydroponics nutrients to pump up the yield, quality and taste of your home crops,” he says. “You can grow year-round using outdoor gardens in warmer weather and indoor gardening during winter. That way, you’ve got a supply of fresh fruits and vegetables 365 days a year. You’ve also got a fun hobby that the whole family can engage in.”

Advanced Nutrients founder Gino Yordanov says the cost of producing vegetables, fruits, and herbs at home is far less than the cost of buying them from commercial producers.

“You don’t have to spend several dollars per gallon driving somewhere to buy your food. That’s one big benefit,” Yordanov explains. “You get total control over the quality of what you eat, because you grow it yourself. You get a higher yield than with regular gardening. And it’s a form of self-sufficiency.”

Michael Straumietis, Robert C. Higgins and Gino Yordanov are united in their commitment to helping Americans save money on gas, energy, and food prices

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Hydroponics at the Volunteer Way.

The continuously rising price of food has inspired those who run the Volunteer Way in Pasco county, Tampa Bay to begin producing their own hydroponic vegetables. The garden which is 25 by 50 will soon be home to more than 2000 Tomatoes, lettuce, beans, peppers.

Larry Cypher, the CEO, said that the project will originally be setup behind the Volunteer Way food bank on Congress street. After the system is up and running for about 6 months, it will be moved to a new site on Congress north of Pine Hill Road, on property donated by the Parker family.

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Eurofresh provides protected environment for tomatoes

A walk through the Eurofresh tomato plant in Snowflake is like a visit to the set of “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.” Instead of the usual home garden tomato vine that stands about two to three feet high with branches spreading out, the vines in the Eurofresh greenhouses soar high above ground.

The vines themselves, which grow to about 50 feet, are woven back and forth reaching a height of about 18 feet, tied up with string. As high as that is, there is another three meters (nearly 10 feet) of a buffer zone between the tomatoes and the roof. Visitors to the greenhouse are required to wear white lab coats so they won’t leave any unwanted material on the vines if they should happen to brush against them.

“In our Snowflake operation, each plant produces 40 to 50 pounds per plant,” said David Leitch, general manager of Eurofresh’s packing operation. “We produce about 150 million tomatoes here. “At this farm, we only grow utility tomatoes which are of uniform size. We have 40 to 50 contracted customers that we supply year-round.”
Clusters of tomatoes in varying stages of ripeness range along the last 18 feet of vine that goes straight toward the ceiling.

As the tomatoes ripen, the leaves around them are cut and finally the clusters themselves are cut off and that now empty portion of the vine is bent to allow the next cluster to come closer to the floor. The top end of the plant continues to grow and blossom until it reaches about 50 feet in length.

“Because we supply produce 12 months of the year, we try to stagger the growth so we are never out of production,” Leitch said. “We also stagger our cleanouts. Our production planning consists of an ideal scenario, but depending on our sales, we can adjust the plan.”

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Aerogrow announces new board members

AeroGrow International, Inc. (NASDAQ: AERO) (“AeroGrow” or the “Company”), makers of the AeroGarden® line of indoor gardening products, announced that it has appointed four new members to its Board of Directors, Linda Graebner, Peter Michel, Suresh Kumar and Michael Dingman, Jr., bringing significant additional depth and breadth of experience to its Board.

Linda Graebner is a veteran consumer products and direct marketing executive. In her role as President and CEO of Tilia Inc., she transformed a small ($9 million revenue), unprofitable and insolvent company into a leading manufacturer of premier lines of small electric kitchen appliances (FoodSaver® and VillaWare® brands).

Peter Michel has extensive experience in leading and rapidly growing a wide range of product and service companies. Mr. Michel is currently the President and CEO of iSECUREtrac Corporation, a leading provider of electronic monitoring systems.

Suresh Kumar is a proven leader in international business with decades of international consumer product experience. Suresh has served as Advisor and Consultant to the Clinton Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, working closely with the principals and governments to establish private-public partnerships that stimulate international economic development.

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Visit the future at the Monroe County Fair

If we wish to send astronauts to other planets someday, they will need to be able to grow their own food. Old-fashioned farming in soil wouldn’t work because alien soils and atmosphere may be hostile to plant growth. We couldn’t take soil up there because it’s too heavy. The solution? Hydroponics.

Sunset Hydroponics and Freshlink Farms are working together on an exhibit on space agriculture that will be presented in SpacePort USA. Attendees will have the opportunity to taste salsa made from hydroponic veggies, and plant a bean seed in an oasis to take home with them. Staff will be on hand to answer any questions that the guests may have, and members of the new Frontier Society will show how foods in space have become the tastiest food on modern spacecraft.

There will be hands on experiences for the whole family to enjoy

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Interest is growing in hydroponics

Randy and Leona Slama began growing their own produce hydroponically about 18 months ago. The reason? Their daughter would break out in a rash when she ate store-bought and organic vegetables. The romaine lettuce and red oak leaf lettuce they grow is pesticide-free, herbicide-free, and kept far away from animal and insect contamination.

The Slamas hydroponic garden has also ended up bringing in some extra cash for the family as well. Their produce has proven popular with neighbors and even a few of the local grocery stores. “We didn’t exactly intend for it to turn into this much of a business,” Leona said. If you buy your veggies right from the Slamas they give you the roots and all, so you can put it in water. “It stays fresher a lot longer”

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