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5 reasons why hydroponic growing is the safest way to grow
Hydroponic is the process of growing plants in a nutrient-rich water environment without using soil. Growers only need to provide an inert medium, like gravel or perlite for drainage and some form of support, such as nets or trellises. The most popular way to create this type of environment indoors is by using containers that hold the water and grow the plants in.
By Alex5 years ago in Earth
Go With The Flow
Just drop the dirt! It is our duty as the next generation to begin to explore more ethical means of food sources, and implementing them into society.
By l.e.wills5 years ago in Earth
Promised Places
I started walking..and I can't believe how long ago..in a quest to lose weight, get back in shape. I was lucky enough to live within walking distance of a river with walking and bike paths that I had used and lived around all my life. I started my weight-loss quest with those.
By Susan Braithwaite5 years ago in Earth
Quest for Equity
Passion and fulfillment. Two key aspects of life. Each sought along varied paths among a myriad of possibilities. The answers are unique to each individual. Some serve the dual purpose of making a positive impact on society and others simply give the individual a sense of meaning and accomplishment.
By Thomas Durbin5 years ago in Earth
My Canada Permanent Resident Journey
110,966,155. No, that is not my annual income. That figure represents the population of the Philippines as of June 15, 2021. 16.7% of the population is living under poverty line while 88.6% of the households expressed concern over their finances. Being born and growing up in a third world country, I witnessed the tragic effect of uneven distribution of wealth. Although income inequality happens everywhere, it is a lot worse in third world countries where people with massive wealth run the society. They don’t make or break the rules. They are the “rule”.
By Jem Ricafort5 years ago in Earth
Tending to the Soil
We all need to be active members in taking care of the earth. When I say the earth, I don’t mean the current state of this planet, which has been steeped in a plethora of money and strained through the patriarchy for hundreds of generations. I am talking about the ground beneath our bare feet, the rich earth burying itself under our soles, the soft mud squelching in between our toes. I am talking about the soil.
By Olivia Rose Phipps5 years ago in Earth
No One Grows Things In The Ground Any More
Come on--no one grows things in the ground any more. Do they? An ex-girlfriend decided one year that we should grow our own tomatoes. We spent six months and two hundred dollars in order to save three bucks on salads. We didn’t break up over super-expensive tomatoes, specifically, but maybe my pigheaded resistance to amateur agriculture was one of the two hundred and fifty seven things I did that persuaded her to seek out greener pastures.
By Stacey Roberts5 years ago in Earth
Bullshit Goes Green
I was in a liquor store the other day (I can handle it, it’s fine. FINE.) when I realized they were giving away free plastic bags with your purchases. I was quite impressed, and I said so.
By Grant Patterson5 years ago in Earth
Roots
A tree without roots is just a piece of wood, declared Marco Pierre White, a British chef. What a smart quote and from a culinary chef no less! Am I being facetious? I really hope so given that a tree without roots is surely dead first and mourned by his tree family and acquaintances who throw him an underground memorial. I was a witness to such a ceremony, watching it from a tree cavern, and this is how it sounded in my tree-focused head.
By Patrick M. Ohana5 years ago in Earth
Tree Day
Valentine’s Day? Love doesn’t need a specific day. Love is a permanent state. I love Athena every day at every moment and she knows it all the way in Greece where she stands tall like all women should, facing their often despicable men. Oh, there are good men. There is no doubt about it. But most of them have died, and rarely from old age. Some of you may already know the men I admire, so I won’t repeat their beautiful names again except for dear Nietzsche, Freud, and Charlie Chaplin. I may have named them all. I digressed, though. I wanted to raise your awareness again about trees in all their splendour and fragility, facing the most bloodthirsty predator on Earth. COVID-19 is an amateur in comparison, the new strain of half-life on the block of existence.
By Patrick M. Ohana5 years ago in Earth
Self-Sustainability
When the pandemic began, stores closed down. Everything that we knew and grew accustomed to, came to a screeching halt. That's when I decided I wanted to be self-sustaining. Not only for me, but my husband and kids as well.
By Ivy Raye5 years ago in Earth
Life From the Ground Up
The soil has been amended and tilled. The smell of freshly worked earth is a turn on to me. I eagerly await the day Mother Nature allows me to create my annual masterpiece, my vegetable gardens. I’ve pretty much designed the layout in my head over the winter, taken into consideration crop rotation patterns. Sitting cross legged in the warm earthiness, I go over the rules as vegetables are a bit like high school girls. Potatoes do not like tomatoes. Potatoes don’t like cucumbers. Do not plant beans with onions or beets (I love me some beets). Beans love carrots. Beets love onions and potatoes. Tomatoes love carrots and peas. Beans and cucumbers are not friends. Carrots and onions do well together. Those are the basics and there are more rules. Sounds complicated, but the rules shape the architecture of the gardens.
By Jennifer Jones5 years ago in Earth