Aeroponics – Farmkits

What is Aeroponics?

Aeroponics is the process of growing plants in an air or mist environment without the use of soil or an aggregate medium. The word "aeroponic" is derived from the Greek meanings of aer and ponos. Aeroponic culture differs from both conventional hydroponics, aquaponics, and in-vitro growing.

Fun fact

According to NASA, plants grow up to 3x faster in aeroponic growing systems compared to in soil. Plus, yields are more consistent, and, with grow lights, year-round growing is possible

An advanced form of hydroponics, aeroponics is the process of growing plants in an air or mist environment rather than soil. Aeroponic systems use water, liquid nutrients and a soilless growing medium to quickly and efficiently grow more colorful, tastier, better smelling and incredibly nutritious produce.

Unsure about what Aeroponics is?

In the video above you can get a glimpse of this system in practice today. It is quite an impressive system and despite it having been scaled up is pretty easy for you to implement at home.
Don't believe me? Check out the video to the right on how to build your own Mini Aeroponics system for your veg at home.

How to build a small scale Aeroponics system

Now that you have seen how the bigger farmers are using this system for their own benefits why not try your hand at DIYing your own Aeroponics system at home?
It's a great project to do alone or with the whole family and will help teach your kids how to become self sufficient even if you don't have spare soil or land to use

Verticle Aeroponics

The Aeroponics system can be used in a variety of styles. Here you can see how one company is using an old Laser Tag warehouse to cultivate large quantities of organic food for the supermarkets nearby.

5 Gallon Bucket Aeroponics Class

In this video this guy shows you how easy it is to make your own Aeroponics system at home and with some basic items that can be sourced pretty easily too.