VertiStack Hydroponics

$300 Underground Greenhouse Grows Your Food Year-Round A walipi, or underground greenhouse, makes year-round farming of food possible, using geothermal and passive solar. From vertical farms to farms from a box

We have some really nice flowers and strawberries starting to form on our VertiStack hydroponic towers. Can't wait to pick the first harvest. Have some really nice sunflowers starting to bloom as well. We planted these by a fence line near our strawberries towers. We plan to put in about 1000 strawberry plants this year for next springs and falls harvest. Growing in these towers makes life so much easier, as there is no bending down to work them on the ground, plus no grass or w**d problems either.

Portage has the largest commercial indoor vertical farm. They're using red and blue LCD lights, making that magenta glow you see in the picture.

Pretty cool!

http://posttrib.suntimes.com/news/porter/27271639-418/vertical-farm-brings-glow-to-portage.html #.U3TyA2pdWSo

Vertical farm brings glow to Portage - Post-Tribune PORTAGE -- The future of farming is up -- straight up, about 27 feet. It’s also enclosed, happening inside a warehouse in Portage’s Ameriplex business park, and it’s sustainable, free of genetically modified organisms, pesticide and herbicide. Green Sense Farms showed off its style of

Vertical garden meets Aquaponics!

http://milkwood.net/2011/10/15/vertical-garden-meets-aquaponics/

Vertical Garden meets Aquaponics This idea combines two of my favorite urban food growing solutions - vertical gardening, and aquaponics. Can they be friends? Of course they can! Charlie from Ecolicious in Sydney has been triallin...

Dang ya'll! That's a big cauliflower...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/10791148/Giant-cauliflower-weighs-in-at-27.5kg.html

Giant cauliflower weighs in at 27.5kg - Telegraph Peter Glazebrook, who already owns four world records for the longest beetroot and parsnip and the heaviest onion and potato, smashes the heaviest cauliflower world record

Combining aquaculture with hydroponics for fish and plants to co-exist peacefully

http://www.foodrepublic.com/2013/05/30/design-meme-you-can-now-grow-fish-and-vegetables-y

Design Meme: You Can Now Grow Fish And Vegetables In Your Living Room Just when you thought you've seen it all. Local River is a newly desinged, at-home aquarium that will also provide you with a catch of the day. Are you up to it? Details after the jump.

Ginormous vertical farm looks like a bee-hive!

http://inhabitat.com/beehive-inspired-vertical-farm-is-a-self-sufficient-mini-ecosystem-for-london/

Beehive-Inspired Vertical Farm is a Self-Sufficient Mini Ecosystem for London Mexican firm, Xome Arquitectos proposes a self-sufficient vertical farm for London that combines residential apartments with sustainable food production.

How far away are we?

http://modernfarmer.com/2013/06/dirt-free-farming-will-hydroponics-finally-take-off/

Dirt-Free Farming: Will Hydroponics (Finally) Take Off? - Modern Farmer The hydroponic revolution has been poised to change farming for over 70 years. When will it actually happen?

Assignment: Education - Aquaponics A new science lab provides new learning opportunites