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  • From: "Harold and Sue Karber" <karber@pldi.net>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Eating Seasonally
  • Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 23:57:49 -0500

We also have learned to grow out of season with greenhouses, grow tunnels that even in dead of winter with solar gain used at night even in Oklahoma winters spinach, lettuces, etc. even tomatoes can be grown and if sold locally no added transportation costs. I love dried leathers and even excess cantaloupe or watermelon can be dried and eaten in winter. dried fruits are wonderful. In season eating only would lead to some deficiencies like vit c. in the diet. When fiber optics were new one of my sons ran a tube of fiber optics from outside to the basement and grew tomatoes all winter as a school project. The light from the fiber optics worked great. True it was just one plant but it worked. His Science project was a mock space station with centrifugal force rotation, fiber optic growing of a closed system for food which had fish for protein to consume the worms that composted etc.. He even allowed for some fiber optics to be used for repairs so their storage was in use growing food until or if ever needed for repairs. He also discovered that dirt was lighter and easier to manage than hydroponics. He never worked out all the bugs but then he was just a pre-teen.
----- Original Message ----- From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
To: <emitch@att.net>; <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 11:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Eating Seasonally



I'm going to stick my neck out and say seasonal is overrated. Seasonal is
good - eating what's produced when it's fresh picked and all - but we've
long ago learned to preserve certain foods for winter when fresh food in
simply unavailable. Societies have traditionally used root cellars,
storing root crops in the ground or damp sand, salting or drying meats,
pickling, fermenting, and so on.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net








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