How about a simple green house and going hydroponic with lights. There is some investment but this would be offset by better health. Plus you would get so much more enjoyment from the better tasting food.
I have looked into some simple green house plans. I think you could do it for $1000 to $1500 with lights. Garnet On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 23:37, sol wrote: > Nancy, > Until you have lived in the climate I live in you do not know whereof > you speak. We grow enough to be treats. That's it. And nobody can grow > enough sprouts in mayonnaise jars to be other than a nice addition to a > salad. > I found your email very flippant. And I can't use kelp or any seaweed > or other iodine containing anything, period, and I certainly don't want > to go to the trouble of growing veg I can't eat. > A high altitude desert, with a very short growing season, and very > cool nights, and low soil temperatures, even at the height of summe, > does not make for good gardening in any case. We grow what we can, but > that amounts to adding a little variety to our summer diet. It is > nowhere near enough to preserve, or even be a serious part of a human's > daily food needs. > paula > > > Tad Winiecki wrote: > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: sol [mailto:[email protected]] > >Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 9:29 PM > > I don't want to disparage organic and natural foods. But they are > >simply not available to everyone.>>>>> > > > >Au contraire, Get out there and plant some vegetable seeds and grow your > >own. Fertilize with kelp, fish emulsion fertilizer, seaweed extract, > >greensand, etc. to replace trace minerals. And gardening is the healthiest > >lifestyle. > > > >If you don't have a yard, get some good grow lights and grow lettuce. If > >you can't afford that, get a mayonnaise jar and some nylon net, hold the > >net on with a rubber band, and sprout seeds. Some good ones are lentils, > >fenugreek, clover, and broccoli. > > > >Nancy > > > > > > > >-- > >The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > > >Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org > > > >To post, address your message to: [email protected] > > > >Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > > >List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > > > > >
