Published by City Farmer, Canada's Office of Urban Agriculture
Subject:
Hydroponics and Urban Agriculture
- Simplifed Hydroponics and Urban
Agriculture in Uruguay and Ecuador
- "Simplified Hydroponics has provided real solutions for low-income
families and impoverished communities in many parts of the world. MARTIN
CALDEYRO describes one innovative project in Uruguay that has improved
family health and living standards, and is a model for other communities
in Latin America to follow." Posted February 21 2004
- Urban Agriculture Reaches New Heights Through Rooftop Gardening
- "A Montreal-based development organization is experimenting with a gardening system called "rooftop simplified hydroponics"ÊÑ a system adapted from the group's experiences in the developing world. During the winter of 2002, with the support of Canada's International Development Research CentreÊ(IDRC), a researcher from the development organization, expanded her knowledge of hydroponics in other countries. She worked with the University of Casablanca in Morocco and the Institute for Simplified Hydroponics in Mexico." Posted February 3, 2004
- Aquaponics
- "Aquaponics is the combination of intensive aquaculture (fish farming) and hydroponics (growing plants without soil). In an aquaponic system, the fish consume food and excrete waste. Beneficial bacteria convert the waste to nitrate which the plants use in the growth process. Many backyard gardeners are setting up systems to grow hundreds of pounds of fish and all the fresh vegetables a family needs." Posted March 17, 2003
- Urban Agriculture
in the City of Winnipeg - Four Case Studies
- "For equipment Growing Prospects Inc. (GPI) cultivated a unique
relationship with City of Winnipeg police and their cache of confiscated
hydroponics equipment for which they had little storage and no manpower
to supervise. ... Under the Health Canada seized property protectorate, GPI
would be able to absorb the equipment and disperse it to the more than
seventy schools in the province of Manitoba who want it to implement
hydroponics programs." Posted October 8,
2000
- Simplified
Hydroponics in Urban Agriculture
- Peggy Bradley introduces us to home hydroponics systems by
describing working examples from around the world. Peggy Bradley and
Cesar Marulanda have just published Home Hydroponic Gardens.
"Simplified hydroponics is a vegetable production method that utilizes
modern day hydroponic technology adapted for areas with limited
resources. This technology is based on minimal inputs, requiring no
pumps, energy, or expensive equipment." Posted
March 14, 2000
- Manual on
Hydroponics by Fao
- The book La Huerta Hidroponica Popular by C.Marulanda and
J.Izquierdo published by FAO in 1991, reviewed by J.Izquierdo in 1998,
is available as a PDF document. The English and Portuguese versions are
also available on paper at request. An audio-visual (video) training
course with nine classes, available in Spanish and Portuguese, is also
available upon request to the FAO Office. Updated
March 27, 2000
- Urban Agriculture
Agrotechnology Park Study Tour
- Singapore Tropical Hydroponic Study Tour, August 27 to September 3,
2000. See the new opportunities for hydroponics in urban farming's
agrotechnology parks and rooftop farming and rooftop and indoor
gardening. Posted February 12, 2000
- Oval Pipes Make Sense
For Tropics
- "Oval pipes make great sense for hydroponics in the tropics and
sub-tropics. ... Using such technology, microfarms around peri-urban
areas, or on commercial rooftops in shopping strips or shopping malls,
could be the future for a great deal of fresh vegetable production."
Posted February 12, 2000
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