Peterson Greens--Hydroponic Garden

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Peterson Greens--Hydroponic Garden

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This is cool!

http://www.omaha.com/money/omaha-s-firs ... cc9e6.html
Inside the nondescript building at Seventh and Pacific Streets is a garden that is absent of soil and sunshine. Instead, vegetables sprout in small cubes of mineral wool placed in trays of water, with water-soluble fertilizer helping them grow. Sprouting in the facility are mostly greens, such as Swiss chard, butter lettuce and kale. There also are herbs and several rows of peppers.

Water for the plants flows continuously through tubes into the trays and is recycled. Different kinds of lights, depending on the plants’ needs, hang from the ceiling, taking the sun’s place.

“This is an out-of-control hobby,” said Kristen Peterson, a co-founder of Omaha’s first commercial, enclosed hydroponic garden, Peterson Greens. “The Petersons are big dreamers.”
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