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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Sam Bein, CEO of Growponics Oklahoma, commented, “We have been working on the Oklahoma greenhouse project for over three years, and it is exciting to see ideas in motion.” Bein added, “The purchase of the land gets us one step closer to our goal of providing healthier, safer, and fresher premium hydroponic produce to Oklahoma, at an affordable price.”

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Growponics Oklahoma is using the Growponics’ unique, Israeli, shallow-water, rotating hydroponic greenhouse system to grow leafy greens and herbs without herbicides, pesticides, chemicals and is dirt, grit, and pathogen-free. This facility will bring healthy, nutritious, more-flavorful and safe Local Grown food to the marketplace, where it can be supplied 365-days-a-year to groceries, restaurants, institutions, and consumer-direct buyers at field-grown produce prices, so that anyone can buy and eat healthy.

Produce will be sold farm direct in Inola, OK, or at your local Grocer, supporting Grown Local and Local Business.

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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.

So far, the death toll has risen to 39 by today, as Germany’s Koch disease control center reported that one more patient died, and over 3,300 were infected in over 12 countries, including the USA and Canada. Germany’s health minister has warned that although the outbreak is abating, more deaths are possible. Authorities are still recommending that consumers do not eat any sprouts in Europe, as they try to determine how the bacteria got onto the farm.

This brings up one of the limitations of organic produce vs. hydroponic produce. While organic crops do not use chemicals, herbicides, and pesticides, they are still susceptible to pathogen contamination, because of water or organic fertilizer contamination. However, hydroponics rates higher on the Food Safety scale because of safer growing practices. For example, at Growponics, the produce grows in reverse osmosis water that removes all contaminants, including bacteria. It also uses purified nutrients, increasing vitamins and nutrition, while eliminating the opportunity of pathogens from organic animal-waste fertilizers. Both safeguards negate the chance for pathogens from these sources. Our hydroponic process also eliminates the use of chemicals, herbicides, and pesticides, while selling at affordable prices, so our produce is a better product all around.

For more information about the Growponics commercial hydroponic growing systems and produce, see www.growponicsamericas.com

Written by: Clarence Wagner

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. While the disease is contracted mostly from ingesting the bacteria, it can be passed on between people. So, hand washing and good hygiene is recommended to prevent secondary contamination.

Seventeen people have died already, and currently, 470 are suffering from a kidney failure complication that was previously considered rare.

The outbreak is already considered the third-largest involving E. coli in recent world history, and it may be the deadliest. Twelve people died in a 1996 Japanese outbreak that reportedly sickened more than 12,000, linked to radish sprouts, and seven died in a 2000 Canadian outbreak that also made thousands ill, linked to water contamination.

The bacteria being investigated is one of the few dangerous types among the hundreds of different E. coli bacteria. The worrisome strain is E. coli 0104:H4, a type known as Shiga-toxin producing E. coli, or STEC, germs that can produce bloody diarrhea and the potentially deadly hemolytic uremic syndrome, or HUS. People and animals carry various E. coli in their intestines; but only a very small percentage is deadly.

To nail down the source, scientists will have to match the strain found in patients to one in vegetables or other sources by using DNA sequencing, said Brendan Wren, professor of pathogen molecular biology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. That can take weeks or even months, and can be complicated by the fact that different vegetables are often eaten together, as in salads.

In the U.S., the government said it would step up testing of any imports of cucumbers or other possibly implicated produce from affected countries — but the nation gets very little fresh produce from Europe, especially this time of year. There was just one shipment of cucumbers from Spain in May, for instance, and no cucumbers, tomatoes or lettuce from Germany since January.

For this reason, Growponics Americas is excited that our unique, proprietary, hydroponic greenhouse facilities are able to be built near any and all market areas in the Americas and provide local grown, fresh, healthy, safe, clean, tasty and consistent leafy greens and herbs to the local/regional markets 24/7/365. Our leafy greens and herbs use no herbicides/pesticides/chemicals and have no pathogens, keeping our buyers healthy and safe. Also, factors such as weather and fuel prices, do not affect our costs to a great extent, so we can offer healthy, fresh and tasty food at competitive prices.

For more information about our systems, contact Growponics Americas on our homepage at www.growponicsamericas.com

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. The result is much higher growth rates, yields and even crop quality, including higher mineral and vitamin content, than organic methods can achieve. This is not what some people want to hear, but it is the simple scientific truth – and practically all scientists and educators in the fields of agriculture and chemistry know it and will be the first to agree. In fact, the kinds of materials which are permitted for use under “organic” regulations are not of sufficient purity to be used for hydroponic culture.

With this in mind it’s important to recognize the reasons that “organically” grown produce is gaining such popularity. Consumers want to buy produce which is not tainted with hazardous chemicals, herbicides, or pesticides. There is an increasing public demand for methods which are gentle on our delicate planet and, which don’t harm the soil, water, or ecosystems. Hydroponic farming methods fit properly into this system of values if used appropriately. In addition, hydroponics protects soil because it doesn’t use soil.
With hydroponics, we use less water and, consequently, more food can be cultivated with less water in higher concentration. The fertilizers we use for hydroponics are ultra-pure and leave no residue in the cultivated fruits and vegetables. Since hydroponic technologies are more efficient than soil methods, more people can be fed with less area and ecological impact, and it can be grown local. Climate is not an issue.

The main factor that people want to buy organic, is that it does not use herbicides, pesticides, or chemicals. Hydroponics qualifies. Also, hydroponics does not have the potential of pathogens, but organically grown fruits and vegetables do. With food safety being a big issue today, organics fails to deliver in this regard.

Also, organics most often has to be grown in the same outdoor areas where non-organic fruits and vegetables grow, as it depends on the climate. Therefore, organics fails to deliver lower “carbon miles,” in delivering its produce to the market, which hurts the environment. Hydroponics can be grown local in any climate. This also increases freshness, quality, color, taste, and shelf life.

Organic products are great, but honestly, hydroponics is superior, because it delivers more variables that today’s consumer markets want. Most hydroponic fruits and vegetables are more expensive, even than organics, which makes them inaccessible to the average shopper. However, the Growponics Americas system www.growponicsamericas.com can deliver hydroponic fruits and vegetables at affordable prices, which will make hydroponic vegetables and fruits accessible and available to all shoppers wanting healthier and fresher food to eat.
Hydroponics Over Organics

Advantages of Hydroponics Over Organics:
• Significant Increase in Vitamins and Minerals*
• Clean Environment for Growing
o Uses Sterilized Water
o No dirt or grit
o No Pests
o No Pathogens
o No Airborne Environmental Pollution Contamination
o No Cultivation, No Weeds
• Consistent Quality, Texture, Color, and Flavor – No Blemishes
• Uses Less Water, Labor, and Energy
• Higher Plant Concentration and Production
• Grown Local 24/7/365 – Faster Delivery to the Market, Longer Shelf Life
• Faster Growth

(*Test conducted by Plant Research Technologies Laboratory in San Jose, CA)

Same As Organics:
• No Herbicides, Pesticides, or Chemicals
• Environmentally-Friendly

Owner – Operators, Geoffrey and Mary Dell, of Mt. Vernon are excited about their new adventure into hydroponic farming.

Geoffrey worked for the past 30 years in the Pharmaceutical Industry as a Maintenance Engineer Technician. Electrical, Electronic, Mechanical controls and Automation was my area of expertise. He was manufacturing medications for folks to help them when they get sick. Now, he is excited to say, “My new career is now growing healthy green vegetables to help prevent people from getting sick. Proper nutrition is so important to a healthy lifestyle.”

As a boy, Geoffrey remembers helping his mom and dad growing vegetables in the family “Victory Garden,” in Buffalo, NY. He and Mary have always grown vegetables in their huge backyard, which they have maxed out. Even though they share their fruits and vegetables with friends and neighbors, in Geoff’s new retirement, they will operate a Growponics, hydroponic greenhouse to provide fresh, tasty, colorful, clean, herbicide/ pesticide/ residue/ pathogen, dirt and grit-free produce to the local/ regional market.

The US market wants this kind of healthy produce for their families. But, until now, hydroponic produce is often too expensive for the average shopper on a limited budget. However, the Growponics Americas hydroponics technology allows for the production of all leafy greens and herbs at a retail price, slightly above field-crop prices, making it available to everyone. That is our goal. To offer good, healthy, quality produce at affordable prices to the public.

Congratulations, Geoffrey and Mary.
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Their schedule will have them in Oklahoma on April 3-6, 10-12, 16; Nevada on April 7-9; St. Louis on April 13th, and Mt. Vernon, IN on April 14-15. If you would like to attend an investor meeting or if you are interested in learning about Growponics proprietary technology, please fill out the form below and you will be contacted about meetings being held in your area.

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Growponics offers local grown leafy greens, herbs, and vine plant greenhouses in a turn-key system that also includes training, oversight, monitoring, marketing and management advice, and procurement of supplies. Food prices are going up and there are seasonal disruptions in supply and quality, along with high shipping prices from long distances. GP is the answer to provide premium quality, healthy, tasty, consistent, and affordable production in a clean and green technology to feed people fresh produce at near field grown prices.

For food security, now is the time to grow local. For more information, contact GPA, the Future of Agriculture, Today:

Here are seven reasons why food shortages are here to stay on a worldwide scale:

1. Extreme Weather: Extreme weather has been a major problem for global food; from summer droughts and heat waves that devastated Russia’s wheat crop to the ongoing catastrophes from ‘biblical flooding’ in Australia and Pakistan. And it doesn’t end there. An extreme winter cold snap and snow has struck the whole of Europe and the United States. Staple crops are failing in all of these regions making an already fragile harvest in 2010 even more critical into 2011. Based on the recent past, extreme weather conditions are only likely to continue and perhaps worsen in the coming years.

2. Bee Colony Collapse: The Guardian reported this week on the USDA’s study on bee colony decline in the United States: “The abundance of four common species of bumblebee in the US has dropped by 96% in just the past few decades.” It is generally understood that bees pollinate around 90% of the world’s commercial crops. Obviously, if these numbers are remotely close to accurate, then our natural food supply is in serious trouble.

3. Collapsing Dollar: Commodity speculation has resulted in massive food inflation that is already creating crisis levels in poor regions in the world. Food commodity prices have soared to record highs, mainly because they trade in the ever-weakening dollar. Traders will point to the circumstances described in this article to justify their gambles, but also that food represents a tangible investment in an era of worthless paper. Because the debt problems in the United States are only getting worse, and nations such as China and Russia are dropping the dollar as their trade vehicle, the dollar will continue to weaken, further driving all commodity prices higher.

4. Regulatory Crackdown: Even before the FDA was given broad new powers to regulate food in the recent Food Safety Modernization Act, small farms were being raided and regulated out of business. Now, the new food bill essentially puts food safety under the direction of the Department of Homeland Security where the food cartel uses the government to further consolidate their control over the industry. Police action is taken against farmers suspected of falling short on quality regulations. It is the power to intimidate innocent small farmers out of the business.

5. Rising Oil Prices: In 2008, record oil prices that topped $147 per barrel drove food prices to new highs. Rice tripled in 6 months during the surge of oil prices, along with other food commodities. The price of oil affects food on multiple levels; from plowing fields, fertilizers and pesticides, to harvesting and hauling. Flash forward to 2011: Many experts are predicting that oil may reach upwards of $150-$200 per barrel in the months ahead. As of March 2011, the price of oil is hovering arounc $100 and climbing fast because of the Libya crisis. Again, a weakening dollar will also play its part in driving oil prices, and consequently, food prices to crisis levels.

6. Increased Soil Pollution: Geo-engineering has been taking place on a grand scale in the United States for decades now. Previously known in conspiracy circles as ‘chemtrailing,’ the government has now admitted to these experiments claiming they are plan “B” to combat global warming. The patents involved in this spraying are heavy in aluminum. This mass aluminum contamination is killing plants and trees and making the soil sterile to most crops. In an astonishing coincidence, GMO companies have patented aluminum-resistant seeds to save the day.

7. GMO Giants: Because of growing awareness of the health effects of GM foods, several countries have rejected planting them. Therefore, they would seem to need a food crisis to be seen as the savior in countries currently opposed to their products. A leaked WikiLeaks cable confirms that this is indeed the strategy for GMO giants, where trade secretaries reportedly “noted that commodity price hikes might spur greater liberalization on biotech imports.”

The equation is actually quite simple: Food is a relatively inelastic commodity in terms of demand. In other words, people need to eat no matter how bad the economy gets. Thus, demand can be basically measured by the size of the population. Therefore, as demand remains steady while the 7 supply pressures outlined above continue to worsen, food prices will have only one place to go — up, up, and up.

As international agencies scramble to find “solutions,” their energy may be just as well spent on questioning if this famine scenario is being purposely manipulated for profits?

Posted on January 7, 2011
By geobear7 at Activist Post

To feed all these mouths, “we will need to produce as much food in the next 40 years, as we have in the last 8,000,” said Jason Clay of the World Wildlife Fund at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). “By 2050 we will not have a planet left that is recognizable” if current trends continue, Clay said.

The swelling population will exacerbate problems, such as resource depletion, land use, and food production. Interestingly, incomes are also expected to rise over the next 40 years — tripling globally and quintupling in developing nations — and add more strain to global food supplies. People tend to move up the food chain as their incomes rise, consuming more meat than they might have when they made less money, the experts said.

It takes around seven pounds (3.4 kilograms) of grain to produce a pound of meat, and around three to four pounds of grain to produce a pound of cheese or eggs, “More people, more money, more consumption, but the same planet,” Clay urges scientists and governments to start making changes now to how food is produced.

More food will have to be produced, year over year, with more efficient growing systems, as crops grown in open fields will become less and less able to supply the demand at affordable prices. There is only so much arable land on the planet, which is also decreasing due to droughts, desertification, and over-building.

The unique Growponics hydroponic greenhouse systems, which produce food in high concentrations on a very small footprint that does not require arable land or specific weather conditions, are an answer to this growing problem. In addition, these greenhouses can be built anywhere, and can be located near the market, reducing transportation, costs, and CO2 emissions, while providing fresher, healthier, tastier food at reasonable prices. For more information on Growponics, go to www.growponicsamericas.com.