Greensgrow Farms - Hydroponic Farming

produced by Kevin McDonald - http://www.kevinmcdonald.tv

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• greensgrow farms
• urban farming
• hydroponic farm
• philadelphia

[justmoiced]

thank you very much you had answer all my question

you are very good .thank a million

[saeidmomtahan]

One more question, with the gutters being so long, will the last lettuce get all the Nutrients that it needs? It seems like the Nutrients would be less and less as the water goes down the gutter and reaches the last plants.

[saeidmomtahan]

Hi. A newbie question. Can some one please tell me how can we compensate for all the nutrients and everything else present in soil by adding a few Chemicals to water and feeding the produce on it?

Another question i have, is it possible to grow Organic H/P, by using Organic solutions?

One last question, in a commercial H/P setting, is it possible to mix our own Chemicals in order to cut costs down?

Thanks for any input you might have

[cacapoopoo2327]

It's nutrient film technique

[neogardener]

Thanks, Mary, for sharing some great insights about hydroponic farming. I agree that using hydroponics as a method of gardening can help save the use of water because it actually recirculates the water so the same supply of water is used over and over again without wasting any or drying up the pipes where the water is delivered to the plants. Those lettuce surely look fresh and delicious. More success to your hydroponic farm :)

[ZodiacTeacher]

Why should we allow the environment to control us when we have the ability to control IT. I'm amazed that after thousands of years of floods, droughts, lack of sunshine and other environmental disasters that farmers wouldn't want to take a little more control of their destinies. Those disasters wouldn't mean much to a modern 500 acre hydro farm. Then if you us your own ethanol, solar, and wind, to power up the hydro pump systems it even costs less to run that kind of farm with no pollution!

[ZodiacTeacher]

Something that's puzzled me for some time is the application of H/P farming on a large scale. Or should I say, "The lack thereof"? Obviously people don't live in certain places because of certain environments. So then you have overcrowding as in L.A. and other huge cities as if there's no other place to live when the fact is even with the large population of today the earth has enough land to give every single person 10 square acres or more. Large scale H/F could make that a reality.

[damianwashere09]

Yeah, that's my sister Mary!

[zoealx2000]

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