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Roof Top Gardening making the world a better place

May 25, 2009 By

Some say one of the biggest positive effects we can have on our environment is bring the food production closer to the people. This helps the environment in many ways by reducing the transportation cost of moving the food to its destination. Estimates show New York City could produce enough food to substance its entire population with 16 green house skyscrapers spread around the city. And all the greenhouse skyscrapers could be ran off solar power and water collected from yearly rain fall. Sure this is a big undertaking but we have already started to see the progression to urban farming.

Here is a cool video of a urban roof top garden.

Here is another video of some great urban gardening.

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Hydroponics SuperCube automated cabinet system grow box Supercloset

May 19, 2009 By

I’ve personally used the SuperCube Hydroponic system with great success. The only problem that I ran into overtime was having the pump and water lines clog and stop working. This can be fix fairly easy by just replacing the pump and hoses every few month or so. This also really depends on the Hydroponic nutrients you use as well. My advice would be to talk to you local Hydroponic shop and buy the best nutrients you can afford that work with a resolver system like this. Otherwise you will be consistently running into nasty water problems. Also remember to change the water a few times a week.

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Flood and Drain Hydroponic System

May 7, 2009 By

I know this video is a bit old but it shows you what a flood and drain hydroponic system looks like. This is one of the simplest and most effective systems you can build for dirt cheap. The most expensive part to the system is the light setup.

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