Introduction to hydroponics - webinar

Speaker: Harry Wright - PhD candidate, Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures, The University of Sheffield

Using hydroponics means that you don't need to have a garden or an allotment plot to grow food - indeed you can grow your own food indoors, and the tools to do that are easily available to anyone. In our first webinar, Harry will explain how hydroponics work and he will show a practical demonstration and explain how you can grow food using this method at home. He also wrote a great blog article for us to accompany the webinar that you can read here.

Harry will also talk about his PhD research on recyclable polymer foams used as synthetic soils. He has been involved in Desert Garden project which is teaching the residents of Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan how to grow plants in mattresses. You can read more about Harry's experience in Za'atari in his blog article.

This is the first webinar from the SHEFF-Yield series (Sustainable Harvest Empowering Future Food Yield). The team behind the project is from the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures at The University of Sheffield and the project was created as a part of the University-wide Green Impact scheme.

The aim of this project is to create awareness in the Sheffield community about HOW to grow their own food at home and WHY locally grown food is essential for low carbon footprint and its positive impact on the public health and environment. We are doing this by organising a series of webinars, publishing blog articles, healthy sustainable food recipes and useful resources on our webpage.

The webinar is free and open to anyone who would like to learn how to use hydroponics in order to become more sustainable. There will be time for questions and discussion in the end of the session.

Please register here on Eventbrite in order to get access to the webinar link which we will send to registered attendees closer to the date.