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Article: Consider a hydroponic garden as a supplemental growing method.(The garden)
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- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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"Why hydroponics?" you ask. Why should I grow hydroponics? Let's start with the state of modern farming ...
Over the past century or so, the small farm has been gobbled up by large commercial corporations. Farming is now approached with a purely business/profit mind-set rather than an approach where "you provide for the land and it will provide for you and your family."
Land is now farmed for an extremely high yield per acre so crops are planted closer together and humongous amounts of fertilizer are used to keep up crop yields. This upsets the natural soil balance and results in lower yields forcing even more fertilizer to be used. This along with heavy ...