Airponics
From Memory Alpha, the free Star Trek reference.
Airponics is the cultivation of plants without soil, by suspending them in an oxygen-rich environment and misting their roots with nutrient solution.
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Kes established an airponics bay on USS Voyager, along with a hydroponics bay. (VOY: "Elogium", "Cold Fire")
In 2372, the yields from Voyager's hydroponics lab were coming out low. (VOY: "Deadlock")
In 2375 Ensign Doug Bronowski worked in Voyager's airponics bay. (VOY: "Someone to Watch Over Me")
- It is likely Bronowski took over Kes's operation after she left in 2374.
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[edit] Background
The accepted term for the method is aeroponics. However, airponics is the term used in the series. Aeroponics is a very real technology developed in the 20th century.
