When I started learning about hydroponics it soon became clear its extraordinary transformative potential. Growing everywhere, adapting to different conditions, water saving… If used wisely, it can improve many people’s lives. It should be more widely deployed yet it is so unknown. Maybe it is because the technology was not up to the task, or [...]
Imagine being in a future city. The air is clean, the streets are full of life, with trees, birds, happy people and ubiquitous robots doing their chores. People move around in driverless electric buses enjoying their free time because artificial intelligences and robots do much of the work. How is your food produced? Most of [...]
When we see how urban farming is being developed and becoming part of our cities, one question that comes up is: who is going to own and operate the production systems? Big corporations or individuals and local companies? Which one do you prefer? I personally wouldn’t like big companies to be the sole owners of [...]
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Beginning today, you can buy a Nanny for your hydroponic culture if you live in USA, Mexico or Canada. Other countries are coming soon. If you live in a different country, just write us to info (at) easyponic.com, and we will try to serve your order. Some of you have been following us for some time, and [...]
These weeks I have been sharing my experiences growing indoor tomatoes. While the purpose of this experiment was to learn about Nanny, I got more than what I expected. I am reserving the experience of using a Nanny for next week; today I will write about other things I learned. The one mistake I will [...]
The previous post on these series I did a great leap forward. The truth is that mid-culture, things do not develop as quickly as at the beginning, or maybe it felt slower to me. Anyway, we left it a 17th of april with the first pollinated flower starting to develop; time for another fast forward. [...]
There is a clever technique for farming tomatoes which I first saw used in the commercial greenhouses in Almería. I call it the infinite tomato technique and love it because it’s beautifully simple and very effective. The greenhouses are tall. In fact the taller the better for some uses. The factor limiting the total height [...]
So, you want to make your own nutrient solution? Not sure where to start? You're in luck! Today, that's precisely what we're going to talk about. Let's dig in! The first thing to understand as we work through it is this: There is no perfect solution for every crop. You'll have a few bumps in [...]
Bram Steiner passed away recently, on the 1st of March 2016 at the age of 95. He was one of the founding fathers of hydroponics in horticulture. He fought for years to keep alive the research on soilless techniques when nobody believed in them; he was ridiculed for his ideas. In the early sixties he [...]
