Urban Hydroponic Growers Union » Distributed Urban Agriculture

Basil Cropping

ProZachJ — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:24:13 +0000

One of the things that we have started doing locally is selling our basil to a local bar. Wanted to drop you guys a few pictures of what a 4×4 tent full of 36 basil plants looks like a few days after harvesting. I have found that there is so much demand for basil locally [...]

Super Cropper v2.0

ProZachJ — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:52:41 +0000

A while back we did some rebuilding of the original Super Cropper system and created a Super Cropper 2.0. It has an improved manifold, spray-lines and anchors for the net-cups. We have been growing with this system for over a year now and the versatility and ease of use is just amazing. We have also [...]

Become a UHGU contributor!

ProZachJ — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 23:48:58 +0000

Do you want to learn how to build our systems? Do you grow vegetables hydroponically indoors or out? Or maybe you want to learn? If so UHGU can provide lots of help/advice as well as plans to build any of the systems you have seen us growing with. After a year and a half of [...]

a whole ‘nother level

ProZachJ — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:16:52 +0000

I haven’t yet talked a whole bunch about the vision that Charles and I share for UHGU. So even some of our regular readers may not be aware of what we mean by “pioneering distributed urban agriculture”. More on this coming very soon. While indoor LED growing for apartment dwellers like myself plays a huge [...]

UHGU Mission Statement

ProZachJ — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:00:00 +0000

…Urban Hydroponic Growers Union (UHGU) was founded in January 2009 by Charles and Zach with the goal of bringing indoor hydroponic plant culture out of the shadows. Many urbanites are frustrated with the limitations of seasonal porch gardening. Many of us would like to “go back to our roots” and have a home garden like [...]