The Model Hydroponic Vegetable garden has been established at the Sandra Ricketts Public School Bangalore. The Garden has been donated to the Orphanage consisting of 25 children who will eat great food every day without pesticides of any chemical kind by ISH Bangalore and is happy to have set up a working display system for all Indians to emulate.

CV Prakash
Chief Visionary
Institute of Simplified Hydroponics
Bangalore

Let me tell you that it made my day! This is a perfect example of what hydroponics can do!

See the 2 albums of CV Prakash below.

Roger Pilon, Editor

Nothing easier! Just consult the BrightFarms Systems! They will assist you in designing a hydroponics systems that will fit …your building’s top or even your home roof top.

I knew roof gardening, now we have rooftop gardening! Whatever you prefer, anything that helps to grow food in towns to reduce our carbon foot print is welcome.

Original article : Up on the roof with BrightFarm Systems from the Digital Journal

Roger Pilon, Editor

Paignton Zoo – ENGLAND

This is the first high intensity vertical hydroponic system of its kind installed in a zoo anywhere in the world.

Here are some hard facts about this specific vertical hydroponics system installed in the Paignton zoo:

• The Verticrop system comprises 10 feet tall, multi-level growing trays, which are suspended from an overhead track.
• Each ‘rig’ consists of eight levels of growing channels or ‘trays’ of which there are two different sizes to accommodate various crops.
• Each growing tray, which has been purpose built for the Verticrop system, has a nutrient delivery funnel through which nutrients are dosed at the feeding station. The unique thing about this vertical system is that the rigs are suspended on a closed loop conveyor and in motion around the greenhouse track.
• Each circuit takes approximately 40 minutes with groups of rigs stopping at the dosing station on each round where nutrient solution is delivered via nozzles to the growing trays.
• The 395 square foot greenhouse has the capacity to grow 11,200 lettuce heads using the Verticrop system, compared to 4,332 in conventional systems.

With an annual bill for animal feed currently in excess of $300,000 a year, it is the hope of  management the high intensity Verticrop system will not only produce ultra fresh food on-site, but also reduce both food miles and food costs for the zoo.

Read the full article at Maximum Yield Magazine

Roger Pilon, Hydroponics Aquaponics News Digest Editor

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Good! Finally a 15,000-square-foot superstore  just opened in Oakland, store dedicated to growing medical marijuana.

Whatever you are in favor or not to let people growing medical marijuana, a fact stands: it has been done before, it is done now and it will be done in the future.

Nobody will change that! Better to do that in full light than underground!

Full article at the Oakland Tribune

Roger Pilon, Editor

It seems that the urban farming concept is less and less a concept and more and more a reality.

In Milwaukee they retrofit an old building to aquaponics. Now we are talking! It is just one step in the right direction but it is a perfect example of what we could do to feed more people with less impact …on everything.

Local urban agriculture, specifically aquaponics, reduces the use of fossil fuels for food production and transport; provides jobs for a ready workforce; produces fresh foods for under served populations; and finds new uses for old buildings

Original article from the Express Milwaukee

Roger Pilon, Editor

Today I stumbled on this news that put a smile on my face: aquaponics is providing food to some Haitians.

Oh! It is a little drop in the bucket, the needs are so huge but it is a start! No surprise that Hans Geissler from Morning Star Fishermen is behind that project.

Read the complete article here at  Bay News 9

Roger Pilon, Editor

This  a press release from Greenfield Hydroponic Systems Inc. They won a  World Bank’s “Development Market Place” DM2009 Climate Adaptation

They are  one of the 26 winners among 100 finalists out of 1751 applications the World Bank received from the global market.

Hydroponics Fodder Project

In India, a shortage of green animal-feed reduces the volume of milk produced, the birthweight of calves, and the potential income of poor farmers. A DM award will help Greenfield Hydroponic Systems, Inc. convert small plots of wasteland into hydroponic greenhouses, using solar and wind-powered technologies to produce green fodder year-round. The project is expected to raise milk yields, calf birthweights and incomes.

For more information read The Hydroponics Fodder Press Release

Original press releases here (with more details)

Hydroponics Business In A Box

Start You Own hydroponics Business Anywhere In The World!

1. a commercial production of herbs, broccoli & other bean
2. sprouts commercial production of wheat and barley grass juice
3. a commercial production of baby greens
4. a commercial reforestation projects
5. a commercial production of medicinal herbs
6. ..and sky is not the limit!

In fact this greenhouse is capable of growing any crop which matures with in to 24 days cycle and grows up to 12? in high, for an example green garlic leaves, coriander leaves, water crest, leafy vegetables, herbs, and rice seedlings, lettuce etc

It this Hydroponics Systems Available?

Yes! It can be shipped anywhere in the world!  Why?

Because, as you can see, it is a container but also because it works without electricity. It can be retrofit by adding solar panels and/or windmills

Behind The Hood

This container-greenhouse is simple to operate:  irrigation, cooling, and lighting systems are controlled by one central electronic monitoring system and maintained at a very low cost.

Water is recycled for a period of 24 hours.

Different models available. They can be adapted to your needs. Available in 220 volts version, solar power and/or windpower.

Feel free to contact me for more information.

Roger Pilon, Editor

From Pomegranates To Barley In Hydroponics Systems

Finally, that green stuff that you see in the picture, between the white lines – that is not weed. It is barley. To avoid the need for herbicides, they grow barley between the lines of trees. The barley is dominant enough over the wild weeds to achieve a local mono-culture in those lines, thus protecting the trees from weeds, and eliminating the need to herbicides.

Don’t ask me where I saw this word first: pomegranates! Can’t remember! That will be part of an article by itself in the near future! Anyway! Back to …pomegranates!

As I was searching the Net for more info about this unknown fruit, I stumbled on an old article, 2007, about using barley to fill up dead spaces in hydroponics and aquaponics systems.

Dead space in hydroponics or aquaponics sytems! No way! Well…I agree with you! There is not a lot of dead space in hydroponics systems, maybe a little bit more in aquaponics systems. However, if adding barley where it is possible, could simplify the day to day operation of your systems, maybe it is worth to try it! Let’s see what they found out in Israel…a while ago!

Roger Pilon Editor, Ponics News

If you have updates, news, feedbacks please feel free to post a comment or contact me!

The original artile is at Pomegranates and Tomatoes!

… that could play one of the key role to solve hunger.

I was dying to see some pictures about this fodder hydroponics machine invented in India! Guess what! I found one that was invented in 2002 in Australia. Chapeau Internet ! So here are some pictures of an incredible rotating hydroponic machine!

Vertical Hydroponics Machine

It ‘s still puzzle me! This is the kind of invention that should be known around the world! Experts in food management still think in terms on tractors, it is time that this be changed!

Roger Pilon Editor

Original Article at: Rotating Fodder Machine