RE: The Veggie Thread...for news items regarding ALL aspects of food production.
July 1, 2013 at 6:48 pm
(This post was last modified: July 1, 2013 at 6:52 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
RE Apples...get an excerpt from "Botany of Desire" there a bit in there about a literal forest of "ancestral apples" I'd pay good money (or shoot good people) to have seen myself.
Take that "aquaponics" setup, go vert, enclose it in a shut in gas well heated greenhouse - and you have my business model. You know what I've found to be the best growing media? "Coco-peat" shaved shredded coconut husk. It doesn't degrade very quickly, it's sterile, it holds water, it's chemically inert (from the pov of the consumer-the plant), it's "all-natural"......you should give coco peat and aquaponics a try, tailor made for Australia (and it's a great excuse for a hobby koi pond).
http://www.aces.edu/dept/fisheries/educa...system.pdf
Take that "aquaponics" setup, go vert, enclose it in a shut in gas well heated greenhouse - and you have my business model. You know what I've found to be the best growing media? "Coco-peat" shaved shredded coconut husk. It doesn't degrade very quickly, it's sterile, it holds water, it's chemically inert (from the pov of the consumer-the plant), it's "all-natural"......you should give coco peat and aquaponics a try, tailor made for Australia (and it's a great excuse for a hobby koi pond).
http://www.aces.edu/dept/fisheries/educa...system.pdf
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