Posted on 09/15/2018 12:48:23 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It was a good story till I read the last line.
If I had a large family to feed, I’d look into it. I wonder what kinds of seeds are used. Non-GMO would be a plus. It would be nice to have juicy sweet non-crunchy strawberries regularly.
I saw something like this two years ago with a German intervator. Greenhouse operation, hydroponics, some heat in the winter....you could grow 90-percent of your needs for vegetables and fruit.
The problem I saw was that you needed to devote man-hours to this each week. It wasn’t something you could just turn on and harvest four months later.
Woohoo- potato bugs, stink bugs, and cut worms year round in the house
Communists EVERYWHERE.
or tomatoes- (can’t eat em anymore though sadly- stomach ulcers- love toasted tomato samiches- mayonaise, and loads of cracked black pepper- drooling just thinking of it
Grossly overstated as per the peddling/commercial sale of this overpriced toy. You're gonna feed a family of four out of that, huh?
Grains, legumes and meat make up a substantial portion of a healthy diet. Iceberg lettuce and most other lettuce for that matter, is satisfying for a short time but delivers few vitamins and minerals, and very little energy that a body needs.
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I grew-up growing a garden and had one for most of my adult life. You have a stressful life? Get out there and do something useful that is also relaxing.......get your hands dirty and some dirt between your toes in a real garden which makes you appreciate life in all it's wonders.
You insist on living in a high density area without a vision of grass or trees or honest to goodness soil of the earth? Well, you get what you deserve.
Just reading the summary it just sounds like a hipsterish over commercialized drmed up version of regular hydroponics. Is there any actual new basic technology in here?
“We’ve been called the Nespresso for lettuce; you literally put the plant pod in, and watch it grow.”
Grow all your food by taking advantage of this little-known, WEIRD trick...!!
(the big food companies HATE this..!)
(insert backlay watermark photo of woman with improbably large boobs)
Garden related enough?
Lettuce has very little nutritional value. This is a colossal waste of money.
It is quite limited, yet worth it for the right customer.
I think of it as a Model T of what is yet to come.
They should apply this technology to real-life Sea-Monkeys.
They should apply this technology to real-life Sea-Monkeys.
From the article comments...
No talk about the electricity costs. Outdoor greenhouses would be cheaper and have exists for a VERY long time if you want produce year round. Are the electricity costs in money and pollution saving transportation, especially if any real number of people do this? I doubt it.
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