Why Grow Hydroponics?
Hello again. Why hydroponics, you may ask? Why should I grow hydroponics? Let us start with the state of modern farming. Over the past century or so, the small farm has been gobbled up by large commercial corporations. Farming is now approached with a purely business/profit mind-set rather than an approach where you provide for the land and it will provide for you and your family. Land is now farmed for an extremely high yield per acre so crops are planted closer together and humongous amounts of fertilizer are used to keep up crop yields. This upsets the natural soil balance and results in lower yields forcing even more fertilizer to be used. This along with heavy robotic farm machinery packing down the soil causes soil to be more easily washed and blown away. The US is losing tons of topsoil every year reducing the amount of farmable land. Hydroponics is a good alternative to producing fruits and vegetables and will help stop this vicious cycle of lost topsoil. In fact, you cannot go
