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Re: gardenwriters Digest, Vol 2, Issue 46

Fran,

I first started Growing Edge in 1989. I owned a garden center which sold hydroponics and customers came in asking for more information. So I started the magazine with basic info on hydroponics. Now we are distributing 20,000 copies of each issue throughout the world. We report on the latest international developments in hydroponics, greenhouse culture and aquaponics (raising fish and feeding plants grown in hydroponics with fish waste and then the fresh water goes back to the fishs). I go to international academic conferences on those topics (I just returned from New Zealand) and report on both the conference and hydroponic operations that I have toured. Hydroponics and aquaponics are being used in increasing numbers of public school curriculums throughout the United States and we have an offer for schools that if a teacher teaches hydroponics or aquaponics in the classroom we will send them copies for every student in the class for NO COST. When the students graduate we get many of them subscribing since they are going into hydroponics as a career. The University of Arizona has a controlled environment agriculture degree program and many students go there for further studies (http://ag.arizona.edu/ceac/) along with Cornell University (http://www.bee.cornell.edu/extension/CEA/indexv4.htm). More and more commercial growers are switching from soil based agriculture to hydroponics. They can grow plants faster and harvest more in the same volume of space. Home hobby gardeners are growing flowers (orchids, roses), salad greens, tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers year round. Newsweek magazine several years ago did a piece on the house of the 21st Century which will have, instead of a pantry in the kitchen, a grow room for fresh veggies grown hydroponically. Obviously, we are a very niche oriented magazine and have a loyal base of readers. I think one of the reason we are successful is because we mix a technological subject matter with a human interest angle of why and how the person got into hydroponics. For more detailed info please see our web site listed below. Many people (garden writers included) think the only thing grown hydroponically is marijuana. Our mission of the Growing Edge is to show the legitimate and legal use of hydroponics for veggies, flowers and culinary herbs.

Tom Alexander, Publisher
Growing Edge Magazine
PO Box 1027
Corvallis, OR. 97339
541-745-7773
http://www.growingedge.com
tom@growingedge.com


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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 13:34:08 -0500
From: fran gustman <fgustman@juno.com>
Subject: [GWL] Growing Edge magazine
To: gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org
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Tom, would you tell us about your magazine?

Fran Gustman, fgustman@juno.com
Editor, HortResources Newsletter
Editor, Wild Ones Journal, www.for-wild.org
Boston, MA

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Tom Alexander, Publisher
Growing Edge Magazine
PO Box 1027
Corvallis, OR. 97339
541-745-7773
http://www.growingedge.com
tom@growingedge.com

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