Posted by admin to Do-It-Yourself Aquaponics, Planters on 2008-02-29, 07:37:36

BackYardAquaponics is a do-it-yourself aquaponics page with an educational discussion forum that features people who actually do aquaponics themselves and a book with CDs about how to design, build and maintain your very own system by Joel Malcolm.

As the trend on urban agriculture and gardening grows more and more in the US, other countries follow suit, along with their own independently thought up ideas and projects.

Getting this information out on the web is our responsibility, but more importantly than allowing people to see the info, is motivating them to actually take hold of the reigns and do-it-themselves, experimenting with new ideas, perhaps even making a profession out of what appears to have grown only as a hobby.

How few of our younger generation is interested in gardening, much less urban agriculture or a variety of other more sustainable ideas that take us farther and farther along the road to self-reliance and more environmentally friendly practices that meet the needs of our growing society.

Why not take this kind of a project on with your own children as a home-schooling project? It will give them a more complete vision of how Mother Nature really works with interconnectivity.

Just imagine a company, placing an aquaponic model on the roof of the factory, connected to solar panels with signs that illustrate how important all elements in a system contribute to productivity?

Aquaculture and Hydroponics need to be blended to provide a more sustainable system with less ecological footprints; and BackYardAquaponics shows us how to do it in an easy-to-grasp user-friendly manner that really inspire the passionate to make their dreams come true.

Take Damion Hinksons System for example, that appears on the Forum, this is one more example of how innovators can revolutionize our ways of thinking, by using what means he had available, in a country with freshwater challenges and access to the internet, he built his very own aquaponic system at home.

The more people investigating this area, the more it will flourish, faster and the sooner it will become as common a household word as vegetable garden.

You may not be an expert in hydroponics or maybe you are, or perhaps neither an expert in aquaponics or maybe you are; but no matter what your expertise or level of schooling, if you have the passion to dream about doing your own aquaponic system and the courage to ignore the skeptics, be free, do-it-yourself and show others what is possible with aquaponics!

Aquaponic Do-It-Yourself Videos - Build and test your own concepts as this guy shows you on YouTube.com!

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Posted by admin to Hydroponic Grow System, Planters on 2008-02-19, 06:45:36

Power Grower is a professional hydroponic grow system, designed in a hexagonal drip system in order to maximize growbed area in a fashionable way; available as a stand-alone version as well as in a modular version (for expansive hydroponic gardens).

Being self-reliant and having your own indoor hydroponic garden with fresh fruits and vegetables all year round can really make the difference.

Or perhaps you are just looking to be certain that your yields will be free of harmful bacteria and diseases that can thrive in solids.

A single head of lettuce takes only 30 days to grow hydroponically, so if a single power grower will hold three or four heads of lettuce, then six or seven modules would be enough to have a fresh head of lettuce every day of the month!

A group of seven modules would only occupy four feet across. And the potential surrounding the area of hydroponics as a locally grown, healthier food source, make systems like the Power Grower very attractive to the next generation of self-reliant Americans.

Included are a 5.7-gallon reservoir, 3-gallon growing chamber, pumping column, support tube, drip ring, ½ grommet, drain level tube, elite 800 air pump, 9L clay pebbles and 3-part flora kit, it measures 15 x 15 x 15, ships at 22 pounds and made by General Hydroponics.

Have your very own hydroponic Power Grower systemat home, starting with a single unit that can be expanded with up to seven modules that fit neatly together only four feet by four feet, and provide your family with a plentiful supply of healthier, fresher foods from your very own kitchen garden for a more modern age.

Power Grower is a hexagonal hydroponic drip system providing your home with a more sustainable technology that takes the backbreaking work out of basic human needs, and the fun back in!

Posted by admin to Hydroponics, Planters, WaterFarm on 2008-02-10, 15:53:05

For a plug and play stand-alone or closed circuit of hydroponic grow beds, WaterFarm was designed to be the new era of hydroponic home growing for the average American concerned about the quality of fresh produce and the ecological footprints caused in transportation.

When we think of the future, we think of the availability of clean, organic and most importantly, fresh vegetable foods; hydroponics, offers itself as a solution that makes sense.

Just think, a fresh salad everyday, with fresh tomatoes and fresh lettuce. Just imagine what that would do to your quality of life, not to mention the appeal it will create with visitors as they question and ask about the fascinating realm of hydroponics, that until recently was a mystery to most.

Condensing your grow area into a nutrition-filled solution and using the advantages behind square foot gardening, you can grow anything that you would be able to grow in soil, but faster and without the parasites that thrive in soils, providing a far better yield than if the conventional amount of space were being used for soil beds.

WaterFarm makes use of its self-contained system and will easily hook up to a larger circuit if necessary, making it possible to add-on to your year round garden as much or as little as your familys needs demand.

The One foot by one foot, square design with hydroponic catchment system underneath and grow bed above with gravity drip system WaterFarm is simple, easy and fun to put together, for those looking to get an advantage on the grow season all year round, right in the comfort of ones own home.

This plug and play system is a General Hydroponics product that measures one foot by one foot, ships at 16 pounds and is a complete set including a four gallon reservoir, two gallon growing chamber, pumping column, column support tube, drip ring, half inch grommet, drain level tube, Elite 800 air pump 9L Hydroton and three part Flora Kit.

WaterFarm was designed for the average American home owner, concerned about the environment and the quality of fresh produce, allowing anyone to take the worlds future, into their own hands, right now.

Posted by admin to Hydroponic Mini Greenhouse, Planters on 2008-01-27, 08:10:29

Hydro Greenhouse 2 is a tabletop hydroponic mini greenhouse for ages eight and up; an educational product manufactured by Uncle Miltons Back 2 Nature line for a healthier and more sustainable tomorrow, focusing on children and parents alike.

The world we have come to know is suffering from the threat of environmental collapse, and we know this, what will make the difference? Knowledge and the courage to use that knowledge on a more sustainable path for tomorrow.

A tomorrow that has an impact on our lifestyle, and hydroponics can help us teach our children about cause and effect.

A tabletop hydroponic mini-greenhouse like the Hydro Greenhouse 2 is the perfect thing for children eight years old and up and adults will enjoy it as well, especially because it can be placed near the workspace, capable of growing flowers, plants, herbs, vegetables and even fruits, without soil.

Growing without soil may be one of our planets most important future technologies, and it will happen sooner than we might expect, as we open our minds to more alternate lifestyles, lifestyles that are healthier and wiser than the ones we have been living until now.

As computers have taken this most recent generation of children into a virtual reality unlike any other most adults knew as children, hydroponics may be one of the leading supplies of human food sources as those same children grow into adulthood; Uncle Milton believes it is better that they learn about the future while they are still young.

This starter kit in hydroponics is for all ages, comes with a grow bed, nutrient rich solution, greenhouse incubator, auto-feed system that lasts two weeks without need of refill, nutrient reservoir and gardening tools, measuring 19″ x 10″ x 12″ and shipping at 2.5 pounds.

The Hydro Greenhouse 2 tabletop hydroponic mini-greenhouse is the perfect starter kit for all ages, and anyone looking to get a deeper understanding of sustainability; just plant the seeds, add the liquid fertilizing solution, water, watch the plants grow at astounding rates, and harvest, for a better, more sustainable future for the children ofour childrens children, that starts with you, right now.

Posted by admin to Planters, Windowsill Greenhouse on 2008-01-22, 05:57:48

A mini healing windowsill greenhouse that can be placed in the windowsill is the perfect thing to induce a restorative environment, invigorate and lower stress levels leaving behind a more comfortable ambience.

The idea of the spa or retreat, goes back as far as ancient Greece, when the dream priests of the temple of Asclepius, would welcome visitors to relax and meditate among their gardens of tranquil healing, where even the walls were engraved with the cures of patients past.

Having a doorway into that realm of healing, where things are stress-free is the objective of mini-greenhouse gardens like this one, with three important healing plants; aloe, hyssop and eucalyptus, all three, powerful and aromatic plants that add an aesthetic tone to any room.

Growing exotic plants from around the world in windowsill greenhouses is considered an art to all and a passion by many; allowing varieties to sprout readily, and grow for years.

Chosen for their beauty, healing properties and their ease of growth, aloe, hyssop and eucalyptus can even be used in herbal baths and purification rituals.

Aloe has more than 200 active biological compounds and has been used in folk medicine for thousands of years, eucalyptus, one of the tallest trees in the world, is renowned for its antiseptic properties, while hyssop is one of the oldest medicinal herbs, used in purification baths and rituals, left on the wound to cure infection and promote healing.

Including growing and care instructions, perlite drainage pellets, planting mixture, natural gravel, decorative sensory stones, sprouting and growing terrarium, three color seed packs with hyssop, eucalyptus mix and aloe mix, for ages 4 and up, it measures 9 x 4.5 x 6and ships at 1.2 pounds.

Inducing a restorative environment with a mini greenhouse healing garden for the windowsill will reduce the stress levels in the room and refresh the souls of any who gaze into that meditative realm of natural medicine, even if for only just afew seconds out of each day.