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Ed Winkle
Posted 11/13/2012 19:51 (#2695505 - in reply to #2695326)
Subject: Re: Hydroponics


Martinsville, Ohio
Great comments, similar to my experience with aquaponics at CNE High School. It was the highlight of the whole district and community and not for the weak of heart. I befriended a couple of janitors who kept a close eye on it for me overnight.

I would go see some working units and talk to the instructor before I got into it. It was fun but hard not to take away from the other courses I was teaching. Plain hydroponics would have been more appropriate for our community east of Cincinnati. Raising tomatoes takes a lot of space and heat, lettuces are easy, other veggies somewhere in the middle.

I would talk to some teachers using those units before I bought one and got myself committed to that. When I retired they tore the unit down because my replacements couldn't manage it.

I won't say it drove me crazy or into retirement but both happened afterwards, LOL.

Ed
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