MAKE » Category: Gardening

Irrigating Your Garden With an Op Amp

John Baichtal — Mon, 06 May 2013 15:14:24 +0000

Instructables user diy_bloke built this op-amp controlled pump for his garden, using the classic 741 operational amplifier. He wrote a very detailed how-to including showing how to etch a PCB, as well as how to make a humidity sensor out of gypsum: The simplest form of a soil humidity sensor […]

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How-To: Grow Super Hot Ghost Chilis

Goli Mohammadi — Fri, 03 May 2013 01:24:04 +0000

There’s no better way to spice up your garden than growing one of the world’s hottest chili peppers: Bhut Jolokia, otherwise known as the ghost chili. In 2007, the ghost chili was certified as the hottest pepper in the world by Guinness World Records, 400 times hotter than Tabasco sauce […]

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Got Livestock? Feed Them Hydroponically Homegrown Barley Sprouts

Laura Cochrane — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:10:31 +0000

If you raise animals that graze, you'll want to check this out.: There's a post on Paca Pride Guest Ranch's blog explaining how to turn 5lbs of barley grain into 25lbs of fresh, live sprouts in a very small hydroponic footprint.

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Farm Aid’s Cornelia Hoskin Talks Homegrown Village

Goli Mohammadi — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:07:42 +0000

Homegrown Village was started in 2007 as the hands-on component of the Farm Aid benefit concert, a place where concertgoers could meet farmers, check out educational exhibits, and learn agrarian skills. At Maker Faire, we’ve always had food makers represented, and in 2009, with the help of Farm Aid’s Cornelia […]

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Homegrown Village: Food, Farming, and More

Karen Tanenbaum — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:48:35 +0000

The Homegrown Village at Maker Faire celebrates the fact that farmers and food makers are the original makers. After all, the earliest examples of tool-making and innovation is for the making, hunting, and growing of food. Homegrown Village is back for the 5th year running, and you can still be part of it as a maker, presenter, demonstrator, and, of course, visitor.

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The Monday Jolt: HarvestGeek Rules the Greenhouse

John Baichtal — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:00:13 +0000

The Monday Jolt is a new series about microcontrollers and electronics that appears in MAKE every Monday morning. HarvestGeek is an ambitious project to automate a greenhouse or other growing environment through the use of a variety of sensors hooked up wirelessly to an Open Source, Arduino-compatible base station. An […]

This Week on Food Makers: 17-year-old Aquaponics Innovator Pierre Beauchamp

Stett Holbrook — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 05:33:19 +0000

In this week's episode of Food Makers on Nov. 28 at 2pm PST/ 5pm EST, I'll be talking to Pierre Beauchamp, a young entrepreneur who is making a name for himself in aquaponics. Watch the episode here on Google+.

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How-To: Trash Can Composter

Goli Mohammadi — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 01:06:15 +0000

Commercial composting canisters can be expensive, but spend an hour or less drilling holes in an old trash can, and you can compost to your heart's content.

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Maker Faire New York: Bitponics – Your Personal Gardening Assistant

Mark Frauenfelder — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 22:30:32 +0000

Bitponics is a successfully funded Kickstarter project that helps indoor growers take care of their plants. They make an internet-connected device that comes with various sensors (water and air temperature, humidity, brightness, and pH). It takes readings and uploads the data to your online account.

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“Hello Garden” – Making Aquaponics Smart

Nick Normal — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 01:10:04 +0000

If you’ve ever walked around West Oakland, farming probably doesn’t come to mind. That’s because it’s the fifth busiest shipping port in the United States. But that hasn’t stopped maker Eric Maundu from feeding himself with locally-grown food from his aquaponic gardens, a combination of fish farming and hydroponic planting. […]

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