Youtube user Migpics created a great video featuring the green beans sprouting in his hydro system. Its totally captivating.

An intrepid groups of students at a middle school in New York have been growing hydroponic and aquaponic plants and documenting it online. These kids are doing an amazing job running very diverse and interesting systems, and have been successful enough to sell their surplus lettuce! They have a bonsai wheel, and a GH EcoGrower. [...]

Our manufacturing team is bringing more positive change to the product line. SubCulture-M, our mycological inoculant and SubCulture-B, our bacterial inoculant for hydroponics, are now in pouches!
The volume of these new containers will also be streamlined. In the past, these products were available in two different sizes, 150 grams and 300 grams. GH has merged [...]

Salon.com has a nice piece up about the potential to turn the remnants of Detroit into an urban agriculture mecca. The opportunity to reinvent an entire city is something we should not let pass by. Sustainable urban agriculture is exactly what the US needs more of. The photo of the Detroit corn field came [...]

General Hydroponics is based on firmly held ecological ideals that we actively uphold. Our business practices have always reflected a desire to preserve the earth’s natural resources. We make our choices not just on Earth Day, but on every single day of the year.
Ingredients are sourced with integrity and with the utmost regard for [...]

We’ve been having Spring fever at GH these days. For me, that translates into starting and maintaining as many plants as I can get my hands on. The Aerogarden is a familiar face around the GH Blog, so I wanted to bring it back to life with some of our products! I [...]

This video from CNN takes a quick look at farms-in-a-bag that are bringing fresh greens into the urban areas of Kenya. The prototype is simple: a sack full of compost and dirt that can hold 60 seedlings and provide nutritious food in 40 days. The efforts are made by COOPI, an NGO dedicated to reversing [...]

I know that urban gardening is a massive trend. And that LED grown plants are a massive trend. But, comon! We all know that if you want plants to grow you can’t use GREEN lights!

This street installation is clearly some sort of artistic message about vertical gardens, urban landscape, and some other very esoteric [...]

The team behind Urban Garden Magazine has been working hard to create a new hydro event called Grow 2010. They just wrapped up their show in Manchester, UK, and sent the video above as a nice overview. If you don’t live in the UK, no worries. They will be hosting a second event in the [...]

I just got the best letter from our dear friend and former Gen Hydro sales rep, Jessica Lilga.
Its been SOOOO Long! How are you?? I regularly check out the blog, I
see Andy put up a post recently. Great to have employee input!
Are things going well for you? I hope so.
I [...]

In March, General Hydroponics sent our people to two unique hydroponic shows, Adam and Chill from the sales team went to Grow2010 in Manchester UK, and our business consultant Luc Charnay traveled to Mexico for the 7th International Course and Congress on Hydroponics. Luc is back and he has shared a few photos from his [...]