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 [...]

Neil, our sales rep on the east coast, sent me a ton of amazing photos from his garden. There are way too many to fit in just one post, so here is the first batch.
These pole beans are so lovely. They look like they are right out of Martha Stewart Magazine!

His TesteCalabasa is a beautiful [...]

Tests are very important, because, as the photo illustrates, sometimes one method is clearly better. I love seeing projects in the FarmLab that have significant differences. This is a great example.
UPDATE: One of my favorite readers wrote in to let me know that the plants seem to be getting different light! I wanted to let [...]

Thinking about the new year and the new growth of plants is very inspiring. Today I thought I would start the new year off with a walk around the FarmLab. Things are always lush in our indoor gardens, and the farm was quite a contrast. Most of its plants are brand new seedlings. The weather was [...]

We are expecting rain this weekend in NorCal, and that signals that it’s the perfect time to get winter crops in the ground. Just about everything except the strawberries and the artichokes were cleared from the acreage at the FarmLab. It can be shocking to see all the vegetation gone, but it will all be worth it [...]

General Hydroponics is all about growing your own. We want you to create your own sustainable vegetable harvest so that you can be self reliant and help reduce the energy required to produce and transport food into grocery stores. I was chatting about all of this with a good friend who has a background in [...]

It’s true! Not only do we have our FarmLab, we also have a sister farm called Vine Hill Farm. We are proud to say that it is Certified Organic! Between the two of them the land totals 6 acres of lush and fertile earth. The farm is planted, tended to, and harvested by just two men, [...]