The more you think about growing hydroponically, the more sense it makes. Your field is anywhere you can find some available space. An unused garage, a warehouse, a vacant building. Under those circumstances, inner city, rust-belt locations can become fields of dreams.
What if we turned underutilized locations into highly productive indoor farms? That could go a long way to bringing fresh produce and food into locations that have not seen a farmers market since the land were probably farms. It could provide a lot of jobs and training for hundreds who want to work in a truly productive industry. It could restore a sense of pride to areas long without it.
The beauty of hydro growing is how much more can be produced in much less space with much less water and energy usage. Today, hydro systems, which employ vertical growing methods, produce even more, turning the air space into additional growing space. With advances in indoor lighting such as LED lighting, even greater yields are possible.
Here at Growstone, we are providing growers with high-performance substrates that produce improved yields and results in hydroponic systems and in soil operations. We are turning waste into valuable and efficient substrates, which enhance growing, save resources and improve yields.
As food security becomes more and more a mainstream concern, we see hydroponics as a viable answer. We just have to change our view of farming as an open-air large acreage system to one that uses available space in a much more efficient manner.
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