These living walls are beyond amazing. Green Fortune is a company that designs and installs living walls, clearly for the high end client. Architects and designers take note: the benefits of installations like this are cleaner air, more beautiful light, and ultimately enhanced moods.
PS, check out their fun little hydro system, the Stream Garden. [...]

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 [...]

One of my dear friends recently returned from a trip to Tehran, and she snapped these great shots of a living wall. The trend of vertical gardening is taking off in urban areas across the globe, and this is a beautiful example. These systems are easy enough to create and I am excited to see [...]

Ginger is one of my favorite things to eat. The flavor of its knobby root is like none other. It truly transforms any dish with its vivid taste. And the health and healing properties it imparts are also one of a kind.

Here is some insight on the chemistry of ginger from Wikipedia:
The characteristic odor and [...]

Adam, our head of sales, visits stores constantly. He recently visited Green Earth Garden Supplies in Surrey, British Colombia, and got some great information about their shop for our blog. I love how even though I’ve never been there, I can tell I would love the store by the massive ammounts of thriving and beautiful [...]

General Hydroponics is entering new territories. Specifically, to Afghanistan, with the United States Marines. Click on the letter below to read the request we received from the US Marine Corp.

When we were contacted, the immediate response was to appreciate the sacrifice of the Armed Forces. Our second response was to call and work out the [...]

Via Luc, via Noucetta from GHE, via “J” from Fatalii.net, check out this great shot of a snake on a waterfarm. 
From J’s email:
 

I have this snake “Weltto” in my greenhouse, he(?) has been there for 3 years now, and loves to spend time on hydroponic systems! The funny thing is that this guy really recognizes the [...]

I was digging through piles of vintage posters at a shop this weekend, when I found two posters depicting hydroponics and the power of nutrients. They were listed as posters for a Chinese science classroom, that had been printed in Russia. Each one was $95, pricing them out of my range So, instead [...]

GHE has created a YouTube channel where they are posting videos. This one is my favorite. It features all of the exotic plants growing in their greenhouse in France.

Click here to see the eurohydro channel and subscribe to their videos.

GHE stands for General Hydroponics Europe. Did you know that we have a large, successful branch of the company that operates out of France? GHE serves to bring the same quality and innovation to the gardeners outside of the American continent. They produce and sell many of the same products that we release. Their markets [...]