Growponics Indiana, Inc. – Groundbreaking and Under Construction

Mt. Vernon, IN (October, 25th, 2011) – Growponics Indiana, Inc., broke ground on its new, state-of-the-art 1-acre hydroponic greenhouse facility to produce leafy greens and herbs.

Geoffrey Dell, owner of the facility, commented, “This is a dream coming true. It is an exciting day, as we begin construction of Phase I of our hydroponic farm that will bring healthy, fresh food to the entire region. Construction should take two months, with the first produce arriving on market shelves after the first of the year.”

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Growponics Oklahoma Acquires Prime Property

Inola, OK (October, 25th, 2011) – Growponics Oklahoma, LLC has acquired 33 acres of prime property in Inola, Rogers County, OK, for a 24-acre hydroponic greenhouse facility to produce a wide variety of leafy greens and herbs, as well as vine plants to include tomatoes, English cucumbers, peppers, and gourmet melons.

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Growponics Americas, LLC is the exclusive authorized distributor of Israeli Hydroponic Technology throughout North & South America. The parent company, Growponics Ltd., designs and builds fully automated greenhouses that use modern agronomics and high technology to maximize food/plant production and profitability on crop yields grown 365 days a year, specializing in a unique, shallow-bed, rotating using hydroponic growing methods. Our high concentration method can grow 4 million heads of lettuce, for example, on 3 acres of land, as compared to 30 acres needed for field grown lettuce.

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Germany e-Coli Outbreak Traced to Organic Sprouts

BERLIN, Germany (June 16, 2011) – Spanish cucumber growers are furious at losing what they claim is more than 200 million Euros a week, after officials in Hamburg, more than 1,000 miles away, wrongly blamed them for the e-Coli outbreak and the news spread across the continent like wildfire. While two Spanish cucumbers were found to have e-Coli, it was not the deadly strain that was killing people.

The outbreak of the rare O104:H4 strain of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) is now assumed to have come from a small, rather traditional organic sprout farm that mostly supplied a relatively local area in Germany. While e-Coli co-exist in humans, they are normally benign, until a new mutant strain, or in this case, an antibiotic-resistant strain, comes on the scene. That was the case with the organic sprouts in Germany.

Germany e-Coli Outbreak Reaches the USA

Hamburg, Germany, (June 1, 2011) – European health officials, tracking one of the worst E. coli outbreaks on record, might never know where it came from. The contamination centers around Hamburg, Germany and could be linked to cucumbers, tomatoes, and/ or lettuce, which patients said they ate, but officials testing produce across the continent have yet to find any vegetables with the particular strain involved. The source may never be found, however produce is being destroyed, including whole fields of lettuces being plowed under for precaution.

The germ has sickened more than 1,500 people, mostly in Germany. However, the outbreak has hit at least nine European countries, but virtually all the sick people either live in Germany or recently traveled there, including two stricken in the USA.

DEBATE ON “ORGANICS” AND “HYDROPONICS”

There is a huge popular debate about whether or not hydroponically grown fruits and vegetables are organic. According to the organic folks, hydroponics are not organic. Why? The organic the value of “organic” fertilizers, (often manure), and methods (grown in soil). However, many people would like to apply “organic” to hydroponics, as hydroponics has even cleaner and better qualities than organics and should not be boycotted by the organics community.

Currently accepted organic fertilizer components are dependent upon organisms in the soil to convert the “organic” materials into a useable form for plants. In hydroponics, we provide the minerals required for plant growth directly, completely eliminating the need for soil and soil-organisms.