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Is hydroponics more environmentally friendly than organic gardening? What are the benefits?

April 26, 2017Benefits environmentally friendly hydroponics organic gardening

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Is hydroponics more environmentally friendly than organic gardening? What are the benefits?

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You can’t get any more environmentally friendly than hydroponic growing because the nutrient water in hydro systems are retrievable and don’t run off into the ground, season after season. Even organic gardening in dirt creates a problem over time. Not even 20 miles from me here in Central Florida the state had to buy out the vegetable muck farms north of Lake Apopka. Because of decades of fertilizer runoff into the lake it virtually killed one of the largest lakes in Florida. Birds are dieing and the alligators are even born deformed. Their is a restoration project going on to try and save it. Hydroponics is the future and will be the only way to grow as more dirt farms disappear.