agritecture:Omaha’s first commercial, enclosed hydroponic garden — inside downtown warehouse — is fe
agritecture:Omaha’s first commercial, enclosed hydroponic garden — inside downtown warehouse — is feeding Omaha dinersWhat started as a basement experiment is growing — literally — into something more in a downtown Omaha warehouse.Inside the nondescript building at Seventh and Pacific Streets is a garden that is absent of soil and sunshine. Instead, vegetables sprout in small cubes of mineral wool placed in trays of water, with water-soluble fertilizer helping them grow. Sprouting in the facility are mostly greens, such as Swiss chard, butter lettuce and kale. There also are herbs and several rows of peppers.Water for the plants flows continuously through tubes into the trays and is recycled. Different kinds of lights, depending on the plants’ needs, hang from the ceiling, taking the sun’s place.“This is an out-of-control hobby,” said Kristen Peterson, a co-founder of Omaha’s first commercial, enclosed hydroponic garden, Peterson Greens. “The Petersons are big dreamers.”Hydroponics is a method of growing plants using water infused with mineral nutrient solutions. It doesn’t use soil and it isn’t always practiced indoors.Read the whole story -- source link
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