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[Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>]

Gene GeRue wrote:

> > It's so tempting to stretch your climate to the limits in search of
> > delicacies, but I'd rather grow stuff that's easily acclimated to my 
> > area
> > and can thrive on it's own-
>
>
> I look forward to an attached greenhouse where I will experiment. 
> About the only caution I take is that I think a person's health is 
> somehow tied to their place and it is most healthful to eat the 
> products of that place.
>
> tvoivozhd---think about all the little shacks set over a spring, or 
> just beyond the point where the spring emerges, that old-time small 
> dairy farmers used to cool their milk.  While they do cool things, 
> they also warm up things to near-water temperature in winter.  We have 
> big springs, but one huge one that I idly thought about building a 
> greenhouse over---it would be easy to grow mangoes, avocadoes, 
> banananas and papayas inside---might not bear fruit in winter, but 
> sure would in the summer, even in the Roanoke latitude---and would 
> grow day-neutral strawberries year-around.