Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Harold and Sue Karber" <karber@pldi.net>]

Paul Fiber Optics or solar tubes do not use any energy whatsoever.   
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From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] More on fiberoptics?


> My answer for end of tomato season is drying, freezing, and canning. Any
> light setup for winter growing is going to be extremely expensive for a
> good supply of fresh tomatoes. 
>
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>
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> On 10/7/2007 at 9:09 AM Kate Moran wrote:
>
> > 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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