Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Kate Moran <katemmoran@yahoo.com>]

Is there anyway to get some further details on how your son's fiberoptic system was set up?  It sounds like it has lots of elements that we would like to incorporate.  Up here in Wisconsin the tomatoes are ending and that is so depressing.....

 

Kate

> . 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.

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