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 Introduction
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As a result of
global industrialisation and modernisation, our society has lost the
possibility of interacting with nature. We can see this reflected in a
growing decline of our quality of life. Urbanisation has given way to
balconies and terraces instead of gardens and vegetable gardens, people
have no more time to devote to their homes nor to share those activities
with their families. As a result of modern life, people tend to consume
massively produced, highly processed goods, thus their diet loses a
considerable proportion of its original beneficial properties, which are
only provided by fresh and natural food.
Nevertheless, in these last years, we have attended to a comeback of a
collective consciousness and to the awakening of a new interest for
natural things, enhancing the preference for natural and
uncontaminated products.
Within this context,
AQUA FOOD has elaborated a productive
and educational proposal for the urban population to live in better conditions, in better health, to
improve their relationship with nature, to live in more pleasant
surroundings, promoting the Hydroponic Home Cultivation of
fruits and vegetables, as well as Aromatic plants using methods that
easily adapt to urban spaces: backyards, rooftops, terraces, balconies,
walls, gardens, as a simple way to have access to:
fresh, natural and ecologic food;
intact taste, aroma
and medicinal properties;
a better health due to a balanced diet, which includes
vitamins, minerals and fibres;
knowledge of the plants that we eat;
the possibility of reducing the money
spent in fruits and
vegetables;
the formation and education of the
children, who need
moments of quiet and to be in contact with nature, thus
stimulating the humanisation in their relationship with the
environment;
the acquisition of a hobby for our leisure time;
the enjoyment of the personal pleasure of planting and
seeing
our own plants grow;
to spice our lives, using fresh aromatic plants which
have an
incomparable taste.
Advantages of Hydroponics in the Home Growth:
It allows the production of all kinds of natural vegetables:
It allows to produce all kinds of natural vegetables:
- Vegetables: lettuce, tomatoes,
carrots, celery,
watercress, beans, persil, radish, cucumbers, etc.
- Fruits: strawberries, melon,
watermelon, etc.
- Others: flowers, aromatic and
medicinal plants.
Since the cultivation is not done on the soil, there is
no
microbiological contamination, the nutritional quality, the high
biological value and the harmlessness (inocuity) of the
products can be assured.
It allows the reuse of waste or reusable materials to
build the
containers (wood, plastic, etc.).
There is a low-cost Simplified Hydroponics package.
It is easy to learn, it does not require any previous
knowledge.
Hydroponics has a Motivating effect, which allows to
obtain
concrete results within a short period of time, that is to say,
the
consumption of our own vegetables.
Services :
AQUA FOOD provides the following services in this area:
Courses
Follow-up.
Urban
Agriculture (Photos)
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