Sustainable Agriculture - Aeroponics is the Key

What is Aeroponics?

Aeroponics is a system for growing that uses air as the medium and mists the roots with nutrients and water at timed intervals. It was initially developed after research on orchids growing in the wild was conducted. NASA has invested a lot of funding into research of aeroponics and has successfully grown vegetables in International Space Station using aeroponics.

What is Benefits of Aeroponics?

Aeroponics offers growers bigger, healthier plants. Faster growth cycles, meaning more crops per year. It is very sustainable and uses 90% less water than soil based growing to produce same amount of crops. Indoor operations require no pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides. Aeroponics can be applied in vertical farming setting maximizing land usage and and increasing crops per m3 of land.

The real environmental benefit of aeroponics is water usage. Soil based crops use 90% more water than an aeroponic system. As you may or may not be aware the world is facing serious clean fresh water shortages. In North America we are very lucky to have an abundance of fresh water and good infrastructure to recycle almost 93% of our fresh water used. Many nations are in dire need of fresh water and lack good infrastructure so much of fresh water is not being recycled to optimize its usage. Aeroponics is a solution to crop production in such nations. Even in North America there are places where fresh water shortages occur like in California.

I am a strong supporter of aeroponic technology and a aeroponic gardener. I also am a distributor of the Tower Garden vertical aeroponic system. It is a great way to grow vegetables and fruits indoors or outdoors.

There are over 200 varieties of vegetables,fruits and edible flowers that can be grown using the Tower Garden.

Anyone interested in a Tower Garden can visit http://www.aeroponicgrow.towergarden.com or send me a message and I will be happy to share more information on them.

For more information on aeroponics please visit http://www.aeroponichowto.com