Cornell CEA program lead Neil Mattson and Paul Sellew, founder and CEO of Little Leaf Farms talked hydroponics on WCAI radio’s award-winning public affairs program The Point. The station is a listener-supported public radio station serving Cape Cod, Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, and the South Coast.
Listen to: Growing Hydroponic and Aquaponic Food
Show description:
On The Point, we discuss alternatives to conventional farming: hydroponics and aquaponics. Meeting the food needs of a growing global population is a challenge, and climate change will make it even more difficult. That’s according to The US Global Change Research Program’s Fourth National Climate Assessment Report. The report finds that “rising temperatures, extreme heat, drought, and heavy downpours are expected to increasingly disrupt agricultural productivity in the United States.”
In the first segment of the program, we look at hydroponic farming as a sustainable and economically viable way of farming in New England. We talk with Dr. Neil Mattson at the School of Integrative Plant Science and Horticulture at Cornell University and Paul Sellew, founder and CEO of Little Leaf Farms a state of the art hydroponic facility in Massachusetts growing baby lettuces.