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Nutrient Deficiency: What’s Wrong With My Crop?
Nutrient needs Small indoor growers often struggle with nutrient deficiency. While nutrients are small, their impact on an indoor farm is enormous. This article will explain the basics of nutrients, nutrient deficiencies, and how to spot and treat nutrient...
Are You Growing Cilantro in Hydroponics? Read This First!
Cilantro in hydroponics Like many herbs, cilantro (Coriandrum sativum) is native to the Mediterranean area but has been spread wide across the world. Today, the herb is prominent especially in Asian and South American cooking. Cilantro is notorious for a polarized...
What to Look For in Produce Packaging
It’s 10 pm on a weeknight, and you’ve just wrangled a pump into your new system. Exhausted, you lose your boots at the door and fall into bed. As the world fades away, your eyes fly open and you realize: You’re going to market in six weeks, and you don’t have any...
How to Light Your Vining Crops (Start Here)
Getting started: lighting for vine crops If you're new to growing vining crops like tomatoes or cucumber, you're in for a rewarding journey. Each farm is unique, and vining crops create some of the most interesting farms. Since many fruiting crops grow high and are...
What You Need to Know To Get Farm Insurance
Farmers need insurance. A few winters ago, an intern misunderstood instructions for the inflated wall of our aquaponics hoop house and left a fan on overnight. The Laramie winter, at temperatures around -30º F, soon did its work. We found ourselves on a freezing...
How to Safely Lower pH in Aquaponics
Our advice to lower pH in aquaponics High pH is a common concern among beginning and intermediate aquaponic growers, who want a quick fix to bring it down. My philosophy on lowering the pH in a system with high pH is simple. If you’re thinking about using a chemical...
“Your Prices Are Too High!”: How to Deal With Customer Complaints
This week, Charlotte Smith from 3 Cow Marketing offers up some hard-won advice from her small milk, eggs, and poultry farm in Oregon. As a small farmer offering unique products, Charlotte is familiar with the pricing, sales, and marketing processes of the niche...
Agrilyst Webinar Recap: Farm Management Software for Indoor Growers
Getting to know AgrilystAgrilyst first won some notoriety at the 2015 TechCrunch Disrupt awards in San Francisco. At that point, agricultural technology companies were just being recognized as potentially powerful solutions to global food supply problems. Last week we...
Don’t Panic: Produce Packaging for Beginners
Worried about your produce packaging? If you spend time in Facebook groups for any method of farming, you will see questions about packaging on a regular basis. When people show their farmer’s market set up, deliveries, CSA boxes, or restaurant harvests; you...
Aquaponics Vs. Hydroponics: Which is Better?
Which is better: aquaponics or hydroponics? Many new growers are torn between two techniques: aquaponics vs hydroponics. Each technique has its potential; aquaponics draws you in with the allure of living creatures, and hydroponics with its precision and control....
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