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--- On Mon, 3/2/09, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> I also have a small greenhouse (12x12') that is set up
> for aquaponics. I 
> plan to start some pak choi and chinese cabbage in there
> next weekend. They 
> grow very well in an aquaponic system.


******  The aquaponic tomatoes, I have bought, have no flavor, they taste 
just like all of the other market tomatoes.  That is the only aquaponic 
produce I have ever purchased.


> 
> The animals take intense spurts of attention, followed by
> days or weeks of 
> needing nothing from me..in the summer, I don't even
> see them for days on 
> end, if they are up in the woods. I have to go find them,
> just to make sure 
> they are still there. Now that I have my new fence (about
> 35 acres fenced in 
> 5-strand high tensile), I don't worry about them
> getting out. Not having to 
> chase escaped animals has made my life so much easier.

******  I have visualized your family incorrectly, I guess.  I think of a 
fenced in cattle pasture as being open, cleared, land, rather than 'woods'.  
You probably have better privacy than I imagine, and probably are more rural; 
I keep thinking you are more like on the edge of a small town, rather than in 
the rural woods.
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