Happy Aloha Friday guys! PGS is gearing up for the “Growing Your World Green” horticultural trade show in San Fran. We will be on hand to learn about new products and new technologies that have developed over the last year from all the biggest names in cultivation. If your in town or at the show, please say hello to us. We will have Pro Gardening Shirts

I would like to personally thank all the people who come into the store and write to me saying how much they love the PGS Growers Blog! I really enjoy sharing the knowledge that is collectively accumulated not just by me, but by all of us here at PGS and through hours of research on the net. There are so many great resources for learning, and we want to find them all and absorb them into our database.

Being from NYC myself, I am really excited about today’s ALOHA Friday post. I just found this video on Youtube about a barge in NYC on the Hudson river, that has an off grid hydroponic food producing facility that is creating a sustainable way to grow food for people locally. BRAVO to them and I think this kind of concept is going to be “the way” soon.

Keeping agriculture sustainable increasingly means keeping it local. Besides the environmental benefit of reducing reliance on fossil-fuel guzzling transportation, eating local food is a more seasonal and often healthier experience. With concern about food security growing, it might turn out to be safer, too. The folks in charge of the Science Barge, a new urban farming experiment in New York, are bringing local food production closer than ever. In this video Vanessa Rae learns about the floating greenhouse facility, which is designed as a demonstration of how urban space, especially rooftop space in big cities like New York, can be used to efficiently produce food. Self-powered by solar panels, wind turbines, and a biodiesel generator, the Science Barge uses state of the art computer technology and an agricultural technique called hydroponics to grow fruits and veggies using much less water and space than field farming. Watch out, city slickers. Farm country is coming to your neighborhood.

Super Huge thanks and respect to RIVERWIRED.COM for the video and the green vision they have.