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Permalink Reply by Sahib Punjabi on November 10, 2010 at 5:24am

Rooftop to Tabletop: Urban Farming Spreads Roots

"Eighteen feet above Chicago’s honking city traffic, Mike Repkin stands in a plot of buckwheat, delicate white flowers waving about his waist as an elevated train clatters past at eye level. From this unusual spot, Repkin is farming."

http://www.onearth.org/article/rooftop-to-tabletop-urban-farming-ga...

Permalink Reply by Rob Torcellini on November 16, 2010 at 3:09pm

Link to the article that Sylvia and myself are in. It's still getting a bunch of hits. I get a bunch of referral click to my YouTube videos from it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/garden/18aqua.html

Permalink Reply by Sahib Punjabi on November 16, 2010 at 3:36pm

I know...I often pass this link on.
Now I humbly request and pray that you develop and share the electronic control software for your fellow AQ friends...I will need that very soon hopefully :-)
God bless,

Rob Torcellini said:

Link to the article that Sylvia and myself are in. It's still getting a bunch of hits. I get a bunch of referral click to my YouTube videos from it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/garden/18aqua.html

Permalink Reply by Sahib Punjabi on December 20, 2010 at 4:24pm

"The Victory Garden of Tomorrow"

Nostalgia....recreated for today...:-)

I have a thing about WWII motivational and propaganda posters and get a kick out of modern remixes of them. Portland artist Joe Wirtheim has introduced a line of them, called the Victory Garden of Tomorrow. He calls it "an art campaign committed to civic innovation and social progress. It is activist art for new American homefront values."

http://victorygardenoftomorrow.com/posters.html

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/12/victory-garden-of-tomorrow.php

Permalink Reply by Sahib Punjabi on January 9, 2011 at 4:12pm

I came across this article and found it very interesting. I am going ot see how to incorporate this in my small Aquaponic research fish farm :-)

" Dr Nick Savidov, the Greenhouse Team Leader of the Crops Diversification Research Centre, Brooks,...In the new facility, he has improved water, space, and labour efficiency and eliminated chemicals including pesticides, fertilisers and pH adjustments. A new component has been incorporated into the system called Biofloc based on Geotube® technology, which allows him to physically separate solid waste from water. The water is then returned back to the system instead of being pumped out with solids as in the previous model. Solids are allowed to stay in the system gradually releasing nutrients due to a bio-fermentation process and thus serving as a slow-release fertiliser. He has found that the solids removed from the water using GeoTube® technology and stored in the Geotube® tank have been degrading with increasing rate releasing additional nutrients to the system. The result is nutrient use efficiency close to 100%. In other words, for the first time, he has created a recirculating self-sustainable system, which allows the conversion of practically all the organic material (fish feed) input into food (fish and plant biomass)."

http://www.growshop.com/hydroponic-systems/aeroponics/aquaponics-re...

Permalink Reply by Sahib Punjabi on January 9, 2011 at 4:16pm

For those with a "research" liking...https://www.was.org/documents/MeetingPresentations/AQ2010/AQ2010_08...

Permalink Reply by Sahib Punjabi on January 13, 2011 at 5:46am

Here a couple of articles that I enjoyed and would like to share...may help in our planning our gardens and what food we grow :-)

New Garden Planner Makes Growing Food Easier

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/01/13/prweb80...

Garden Seed Catalogs

http://www.sanfernandosun.com/sanfernsun/home-and-garden/6259-garde...

A: Congratulations on your first gardening attempt and the willingness to learn more and try again. I think you will like the catalogs that I am suggesting to you. First, there are many people like you who want unmodified seeds. About 35 years ago, some of them formed an organization called the Seed Savers Exchange. They offer over 600 plant varieties to the public in their catalog and provide tens of thousands of seeds to members of the nonprofit organization.

The 13,000 members work to collect, maintain and distribute heirloom vegetable varieties. They maintain a list of members who want to exchange with each other, but you don't have to do that to become a member. One of the member benefits is getting discounts on seed, plant or book purchases. Check them out at www.seedsavers.org.