The Hydroponics Farmer Podcast

In this episode we make a Special Announcement and notice to all our subscribers and listeners. We want to express our special gratitude to our dear friend Cliff Ravenscraft at GSPN.TV, the Podcast Answer Man, for Cliff's gracious assistance to help us bring this Special Announcement to our listeners. Effective with this episode the Living the Simple Good Life and the Hydroponics Farmer podcasts are suspended indefinitely. Thank you for listening to Living the Simple Good Life and the Hydroponics Farmer and for your interest in these podcasts. For our friends, subscribers and loyal listeners, Barry and I will continue podcasting combined with our new life's work and mission to defeat pancreatic cancer in Barry and others. You can listen in to our new podcasting program at GODisBiggerthanCancer.com, also available in iTunes. Cliff Ravenscraft, GSPN.TV, Podcast Answer Man episode 239 Steve Howard, Born To Farm Simple Good Life Network Contact Information: Email: ShowTalk@SimpleGoodLifeNetwork.com Listener Voicemail Feedback Line: 727-238-7276

A special welcome to the very first episode of the Hydroponics Farmer podcast. Hydroponics and Aquaponics…tomorrow’s farming systems growing local healthy food today! Whether your interest in hydroponics is as a hobby, an additional source of income, or you want to get into the commercial market, the future and opportunities in soil-less culture are more favorable today than ever before. We hope these hydroponic and aquaponics audio and video podcasts will spark your interest, provide some trustworthy information, and valuable resources, to help you grow more food for yourself and or for your local community For many years I have been happily wedded to biodynamic, organic soil gardening, but now I find myself in that stereotypical male midlife crisis type syndrome. Fortunately, my case of midlife crisis is not the fast cars and women form of midlife crisis, that can really make you act crazy and cost you a lot of money and other problems too! But, I must admit, like a male in midlife crisis, my affections are being tampered with because I’ve been bitten hard by the love bug and I am developing a growing passion for a fresh, sweet new love of my life...Hydroponics! Hydroponic soil-less growing is winning my heart over my former love of dirt growing. And one of the best things about my new passion is that we don’t have to travel to romantic distant places, far off lands to be happy, our relationship will grow just fine locally. Yep, the secret is out in our farming community, this old faithful, biodynamic dirt NW GA mountains homesteading gardener has been seen all this past spring and summer, not like an old plow mule working the soil, but like a young stag on the mountain tops, gleefully frolicking in his garden with his new passion, Hydroponics! Our three major goals for producing the Hydroponics Farmer podcast and providing the website are: 1. To help individuals, small farmers and community groups to grow more local healthy food using efficient, high yielding and environmentally friendly hydroponic and aquaponics growing methods and systems. 2. To help wade through the sea of information and misinformation on the internet about hydroponics, to clear up many of the misconceptions and myths associated with growing plants hydroponically. 3. To support small farmers growing hydroponically by helping educate consumers as to the quality, nutritional value and delicious taste of hydroponically grown food. This new media web show and website will include audio and video podcasts, blogs, webinars and Live Streaming workshops and events for a wide range of folks interested in growing food hydroponically and aquaponically. Everyone from the beginner who has never grown any of their own food, the hobbyist, the experienced home conventional and organic gardener, the school teacher interested in bringing their students valuable hands-on science, good ecology and healthy eating projects, that may help to birth a whole new and highly educated generation of young farmers, devoted to providing and meeting the increasing and crucial needs of providing local healthy food for their local communities. Also, we hope to be a resource for caring citizen and nonprofit groups committed to helping turn America’s urban food desserts into community gardens of hope and healthy eating. The Hydroponics Farmer web show, website and the resources we’ll be providing are also for the serious commercial small farmer interesting in meeting the high quality food needs of their local community, in a way that generates increased sales and profitability for the sustainability and for the survival of America’s valuable and desperately needed small farmers, in a time of rapidly increasing farm input costs and seriously diminishing natural resources. As a hydroponic and aquaponic food growing community we’ll learn and share together and have some fun and some delicious, healthy eating along the way.