INDOOR FARMING FOR ALL
Professor B.A, (Bernard) Kratky, Ph.D. and Horticulturist Emeritus at the University of Hawaii, is the first to set the record straight concerning the simple, inexpensive, yet amazingly efficient method of crop-production that currently bears his name, indeed what he himself refers to as ‘the suspended-pot, non-circulating hydroponic method’. A Brief History of Hydroponics […]
Panic over Fertilizer? Who, me? Business Insider trumpets fertilizer shortage as being ‘at the heart of the pending food crisis’… ‘Surging fertilizer costs’, their writer tells us, ‘make it harder for farmers to earn a living, provide for their families, and feed the world…’ Even further out on a limb, ‘climate change’ has been […]
The role of pollination in growing fruits and vegetables is a marvelous mystery of Nature, but a potential stumbling block, as well, for indoor farmers… When first looking into the question, I could see myself developing virtuoso skills, swirling an artist’s brush around stamens (the male parts) standing tall in the center of my […]
So, as already foreseen, the harvest from my modestly significant outdoor veggie garden in Central Portugal was disappointing… The soil in my field, it turns out, is bad for cultivating, being too sandy and dry. Even in the ringed squash beds I planted around four of the eight olive trees out back, where rich loam […]
My arrival at my present lodgings, in a rural village in Central Portugal, was very last-minute and recent (end-April)… With a significant piece of land unexpectedly at my disposal, I put off other priority activities (like unpacking boxes after the move!) in order to put together a raised bed in the field out back, as […]
Seen on a private billboard, erected on an empty plot of urban land, in the early 1900s : EVERYBODY WORKS BUT THE VACANT LOT I paid $3600 for this lot and will hold it ’till I get $6000. The profit is unearned increment made possible by the presence of this community and enterprise of […]
The easiest way to start indoor farming is with ‘container gardening’. And, voila, here most of us already have some experience, even if only growing herbs in small containers on the kitchen window sill… So, let’s take it from there, and grow! As an aside, and contrary to my original intention with this project, I […]
I started writing the following post over 4 months ago. Then I got interrupted. Some might say that was just a coincidence… But there had already been so many negative coincidences, all of them disrupting this project, and over so many months… As I persisted in my intended direction, despite the feeling I was […]
Indoor Farming is Catching On! While growing your own produce is still far from the norm, nor even –yet!– truly fashionable, Indoor Farming IS catching on… You have only to look at new merchandise, developed to meet the demand… On the high end of this trend (for those with money to spend), there are now […]
Indoor Farming for All Almost everyone cultivates at least some indoor plants, because we all love the live green touch they bring to our homes, and how their presence lights up and energizes any room… A couple of years ago, I stayed for ten months in a house with a smoker living on the […]