There’s always something interesting growing at Gen Hydro, and so I wasn’t too surprised to wander into the office kitchen and find these oyster mushrooms on the counter. It’s an inoculated substrate and all it needs to throw off one or two rounds of delicious ’shrooms is moisture.

This is the second round that has bloomed [...]

Right now we have a crop of dark, leafy green kale going nuts in the greenhouse. It’s a power veggie, packed with vitamins and minerals. Most people know that it’s super nutritious, but did you know that vegetables grown with General Hydroponics nutrients actually have more nutrition than most soil grown crops? This is due [...]

Urban Garden Magazine posted a great article about growing strawberries yesterday. I love strawberries! GH grows their berries outdoors, and one year I picked ripe berries from March until December. In fact, the photo above is my GH strawberry harvest from December 5th, 2007.

Telluride Hydroponics and Organics in Colorado is growing enough basil to feed the whole state. It looks like they’ve got a great thing going on! Any readers from ‘Rado shop there? I’d love to hear about it in the comments!

40 miles from Port au Prince Hans Geissler has established an aquaponic farm to help feed orphans at an orphanage. Now it is feeding victims of the earthquake. Visit the farm with a news crew and learn about his goals for producing foodby clicking this link and choosing to watch the video story.

Via Hydroponics Aquaponics [...]

CVG is having a seed swap! Get in on that people!
These are seeds I saved from my garden last year… Gonna go outside right now and sow them in the ground!

Windowfarms is one of the coolest hydroponic projects that I’ve seen in a long time. It’s a simple DIY drip system that is made from recycled materials, specifically built for placement in a window. The garden has a flexible design but is generally uses plastic waterbottles, with plants growing in hydroton or other lightweight soilless [...]

The greenhouse team has been busy at work potting up an entire orchard worth of fruit trees. These trees will eventually be transplanted into the General Hydroponics Farm Lab orchard, but for now they are cozy and warm indoors.

Mushrooms, mushrooms, mushrooms! Yum! Check out these awesome Mini Mushroom Farms from Far West Fungi. They are little gardens that will produce ongoing harvests of shitakes or oyster mushrooms. They seem easy and fun, and a great way to produce food that is as beautiful as it is delicious.

One of our readers left a comment, that I decided to answer in the form of a Q&A blog post. I talked to our tech support, and without knowing very much about his grow, we did our best to put together an answer. I think that the information suggested is of value to many different [...]

It’s really cold here in NorCal, and so I like to sneak over to the greehouse to soak up the warmth. Besides the decent temperature, there is the warming effect of looking at the rainbow of peppers growing in the ebb and flow trays. They look great, and are the perfect reminder of the real [...]

I recently had the opportunity to talk about food with a food and lifestyle editor here in Honolulu, and when I asked about local agriculture as it relates to fine dining, I was very surprised with what I learned. Hawaii has to import 80% of its food, and reportedly only has enough food to last [...]

Here’s an old-school article, from the Hydro Farm website, written in 1998, by Gordon Creaser for the Aquaponics Journal. It talks about a Hawaiian family getting set up with a large scale lettuce operation. Does anyone out there know if they are still growing?

Does it seem to you like we run the same tests on the same plants over and over and over again? It’s because we DO run tests all the time, and we repeat them, tweak them and repeat them again. Here is the current batch of cukes!

I just love this window garden, created by San Francisco blogger Gomistyle. From his blog:
Let me begin with a simple admission. I don’t know much about gardening. Until a few weeks ago, I had never planted a seed, or maintained houseplants. My thumbs weren’t green, they were red and swollen from playing [...]

I love reading Red-Icculus’ blog, and his peppers this year look deadly. Like Guatemalan-Insanity-Pepper from The Simpsons deadly. He fed them FloraNectar, yikes!

These lettuce plants are HUGE! They are placed in the systems with zinnias and are part of the biological tests that have been running. Each tray has a different biological agent, and the results of growth and yield are meticulously recorded. We are running the same products with the cucumbers that I’ve shared in the [...]

Remember the new setups we’ve been testing?
I took this shot on August 11:

They have exploded in the last month. Amazing.

I am starting to get obsessed with Detroit. It’s a city on the verge of colapse, but that means it’s also on the verge of renewal. The decay and abandonment due to the consequences of the economic colapse has left the city ripe for a culural remodel, not unlike post-Katrina New Orleans.

Here is an excerpt [...]

There are some huge squash blossoms at GH right now. They are fed Flora Nova. The humble flower of the squash plant can be so beautiful. The green veins in the petals are so amazing. And, bonus, you can eat them! Yum. I like to fill mine with cheese, dip them in some beaten egg, [...]