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Favela do Alemao in Rio de Janeiro. Low-income urban communities like these tend to lack greenery and are more likely to face extreme heat than their wealthier or more rural counterparts. Ratao Diniz/Brazil Photos/LightRocket via Getty ImagesHow one group in Rio de Janeiro teamed up with researchers to adapt green...

CORRECTION NOTICE: New Hampshire Laboratory Error Incorrectly Resulted in Recall of lēf Farms “Spice” Packaged Salad Greens: Recall Canceled Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 05/12/2023 - 11:38 Recall Type Company Announcement Brand Name(s) lēf Farms Recall Reason Food & Beverage Safety,Potential Foodborne Illness,E. coli Company or Government Agency Name lēf Farms...

Over the years SOLIDWORKS has made improvements with how it reads STL files and how useful that data is after it is loaded. An STL file is made up entirely of triangular shapes and the bits and bytes don’t form an actual solid with volume like SOLIDWORKS files. In the...

Arable land is at an all-time premium. Since the last ice age, humans have cleared one-third of the earth’s forests and two-thirds of its wild grasslands, much of it for agriculture. And as the world population—8 billion as of last November—continues to expand, there’s ever-increasing pressure on farmland to produce...

During the past couple of years, cleaning products based on hypochlorous acid derived from electrolysis have become popular in the hydroponic industry. This is because, in the USA – per 40 CFR § 180.940 – hypochlorous acid products containing less than 200 ppm of active chlorine are exempted from many...

Why reuse media Buying new media and spending labor to mix, expand, and even amend it can be a costly process for growing facilities. Dumping media also involves going through a composting process, wasting nutrients that are already present in that media when it is thrown away. However, media in...

In a previous post, which you can read here, I gave a procedure for the preparation of a stabilized mono-silicic acid using from potassium silicate. The procedure called for the usage of several stabilizing agents, including carnitine and propylene glycol, with phosphoric acid being used as the acidifying agent. After...

With intelligent indoor gardening systems, you can now grow leafy greens, vegetables, herbs and fruits in your living room, kitchen, even tiny studio apartment. The post The Rise of At-Home Hydroponic Gardens appeared first on Modern Farmer....

In mid-July, a group of Democratic senators introduced a sweeping bill to federally legalize, regulate and tax marijuana. Despite the fact that most experts believe the bill will not, in its current form or really anything close to it, pass into law, it’s still one further sign that marijuana will,...

To have a healthy hydroponic crop, you need to supply plants with all the nutrients they need. One of the most important variables that determine proper nutrient absorption, is the ratio of Potassium to Calcium in the nutrient solution. These two elements compete between themselves and have different absorption profiles...