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Water shortages and rising fuel prices are directly related to Ethanol being shoved down our gas tanks.
The lunacy of using food and water to replace oil must come to an end.
Motto, “Yes I Can”. Not, the “Yes We Can”.
Yes I Can. Yes I Can. Yes I Can. Yes I Can!
Only to point this out....this is in a highly dry climate (L A, California) and they had to use a fair amount of city water to accomplish the 6,000 lbs. This would not be the best place to accomplish a goal like this.
We invested in a RO/DI system for our drinking water (I also use it in my aquarium).
Removes %99.99 of the nastiness in tap water. When I change the filters I just stop and wonder how can the allow that much crap to flow through the pipes?
Looks like one of those scam sites, like”get rich by working at home”. Are they trying to sell something?
LOL—what are they growing? Gravel?
A shame to see what started out as a mildly interesting article turn into liquid diarrhea so quickly. All mentally normal people should disregard this article. Others will need serious drugs to get back to reality.
Sounds like Gary North during the y2k hayday.
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My food bill has increased by about $40.00 a week, and I shop at a discount type of grocery store.
Unfortunately, my backyard is the size of a postage stamp and I have really bad dirt, I forget what its called, its really hard and dry.
Looks like commerce. It is a threat to the Federal Farm support programs, which puts farm banks at risk, so it should be mandated illegal
/lefty think off
Any farmer can clarify for you that this post is bravo sierra. There’s a reason farmers leave fields either (a) fallow for a season, or (b) plant clover in that field for a season. Soil is renewable but it only contains a given amount of nutrients.
Indeed, scientists are taking this idea to the next level: 8-12 story buildings that are essentially controlled-environment greenhouses that could grow just about anything essentially year-round, with no worries about amount of sunlight, amount of water, amount of nutrients and even weeds and insect pests! Because of the potential to grow a huge amount of food year-round, it has one big advantage with such a greenhouse if located in a city: transportation costs are going to be extremely low (no more shipping food hundreds to thousands of miles!) and with a greenhouse environment, almost anything could be grown.
I’m enthusiastic about expanding my own growing capacity this summer, but I’m envisioning a time in the not-too-distant future when those of us in the suburbs will have to guard our tiny cropland 24-7 to keep our neighbors from stealing it. When all the layabouts see my blooming yard they’re going to want a piece of that.
(O God, please let the great disaster hold off until I can get OUT of here and into the deep country!)
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Hydroponics.
You can grow *anything*. Tomatoes, orchids, or bud.
Just sayin’
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On the surface, what this family is doing seems to be lovely and helpful, but in fact, they’ve managed to trademark a long-used term (freely used long before they trademarked it), “urban homesteading” and are bullying websites left and right:
http://www.mnn.com/your-home/organic-farming-gardening/blogs/california-family-leaves-unwanted-mark-on-urban-agricultur