Hydroponics and the Immediacy of Modern Agriculture

Hydroponics and the Immediacy of Modern Agriculture

You’ve probably heard of the ‘buy fresh’ and ‘buy local’ food movements, but if you’re a hydroponics grower or anyone with an interest in indoor gardening, you may not have thought about how these ideas can really provide a market boost for hydroponically grown vegetables. In fact, the emergence of local farmer’s markets and other venues for local food selling is likely to turn hydroponics into a much bigger business than it already is. By anticipating how people will shop for food in the future, you may be able to turn your indoor gardening hobby into a very successful business.

Local Food and Hydroponics

The ideas of hydroponic growing and local buying actually go hand-in-hand. In urban areas and even further out in the suburbs, there often is not enough land to grow a lot of local food. That means that even where local food movements exist, farmers usually have to truck produce in from rather remote areas. Although this is much better than transporting food many thousands of miles, which is the norm in the corporate food chain, hydroponics gives smaller growers even more options for growing food nearer to the people who are ultimately going to eat it.

Finding Your Audience

For those who are interested in using hydroponics this way, one of the first steps is to contact local distributors and other elements of a local food movement to understand where the market is and where it’s going. With a little networking, the grower will be poised to think about how an investment in hydroponic equipment could help them to become a vendor in their own community.

For more, take a look at what’s available from your hydroponic retailer and think about how full-featured hydroponic systems could help you to start producing food where you live.