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Article: Cultivating hydroponics
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- Journal of Business
- Article date:
- July 10, 2008
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CopyrightCopyright Northwest Business Press Inc. Jul 10, 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Suzan Mihara loves plants and is drawing on her passion for gardening to help her and her son's sprouting organic and hydroponic plant business blossom, even as the economy wilts.
Mihara and her son, Paul, opened Spokane Organic & Hydroponic Supply here in January 2007. After weathering a rocky start, they've seen demand rise in recent months, Mihara says. She attributes much of that growth to skyrocketing food prices and consumers' increasing interest in organic products.
"More people are growing their own food and wanting to be in control of and know what they're eating," Mihara asserts. "As the economy has gotten worse, our business has picked up, because people need to eat and are ...