At last September’s Mother Earth News Fair I had the good fortune of meeting and sharing a condo with author, Deborah Niemann, and her husband.  They drove to Pennsylvania from Illinios, and brought with them homemade goat cheese and stories of life on their thriving homestead.  I asked Deborah if she would write a post for [...]

This past Monday I returned home from a 10 day trip through Japan with my son.  It was a high school graduation gift for him (in part to exercise his four years of Japanese language classes) and a birthday present for me (one of those big deal birthdays that end in a zero.  Can you [...]

This is a guest blog post written by Gina Cavaliero,  of Green Acre Organics.  What follows are Gina’s reflections on how much their commercial systems have expanded in the past year and a half, and how far they have come from the poor training they originally received to all that they have learned and are [...]

This past week I attended and gave two presentations on Aquaponics at the Aquaculture America Conference in Las Vegas.  Ed Aneshansley from the Aquaculture Engineering Society pulled together a group of five aquaponics folks and gave us two topics apiece with 15 minutes each in which to present them.  I was given “Beginner and Hobbyist [...]

When I was a member of the team that developed the AeroGarden (2003 – 2009), our entire design focus could be summed up in one thought – We were taking hydroponics out of the closet by creating a system that was sufficiently attractive and functional to earn an esteemed position in someone’s kitchen.  We spent [...]