A Massachusetts company has developed a unique, hydroponic growing environment in closed 40-foot freight containers that are being used world-wide to grow produce in areas with bad soil or weather conditions not conducive to outdoor growing.
Bay State natives Jon Friedman and Brad McNamara were developing rooftop greenhouses in the early 2000s when they realized a modular, hydroponic container might be a more viable solution.
Hydroponics wasnât something new. Historians believe this soilless gardening can be traced back to hanging gardens of Babylon in Iraq built by King Nebuchadnezzar about 600 BC. Nutrient-rich water was pumped to the gardens from the Euphrates river to sustain its plants. A water-based growing thread continued through history and in the 1930s a University of California scientist, William Gericke, coined the term from the Greek word âhydroâ (water) and âponicsâ (work).
Sunday, 10 January 2021, 6:09 am
The
Open shearing final lineup at the Peninsula Duvauchelle
Shears on Saturday. Photo /
Supplied
National 2019-2020 No
1-ranked Open shearer and New Zealand transtasman shearing
series team member Troy Pyper got his second win of the
current season in a close result at the Peninsula
Duvauchelle Shears yesterday(Saturday).
From
Southland, now based in North Canterbury and just back from
shearing in Hawke’s Bay, he won the the title at the
Duvauchelle A and P Show for a third time in a
row.
But there was just a 0.43 points margin from
runner-up Ant Frew, of Pleasant Point, in a 10-sheep Open
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