Right around the time a barrel of oil was around $150 USD I stumbled upon an article from an "expert" saying that the solution to resolve hunger was to give more money to poor countries in order to buy more tractors and more agrochemicals! So wrong! Then a thought popped into mind: " Do something! No matter what! Anything is better than nothing! ". Mission: increasing awareness of hydroponics and aquaponics as key tools in fighting hunger around the world.
Roger Pilon, Editor
Hello everyone! How I got into hydroponics is a long story...let's just say that it involves a lot of tedious farm work as a child, unsuccessful 'dirt' gardens of my own and a near electrocution from a semi-submersible hydroponic pump. I've learned that hydroponic gardening is the only way to garden for me and I've been working at it for several years now. I've built ebb/flow, nft, Mittleider, wick and passive systems and I'm always on the lookout for the easiest and most efficient means of hydroponic gardening...If you have questions, I would be more than happy to answer them...
How about free food! Price? Just do a little of scavaging!
Desk Of Jac Smit June 17, 2008
Andrew Ehrman and Joseph Adamji, at the end of their sophomore year at Macalister College in St Paul Minnesota, moved out of their dormitory and said goodbye to the cafeteria.
With the advice of Chris Allison at Sisters Camelot they established their prime nutrition source as "the dumpster" and embraced the label of "freeganism".
Their scavenging of food store and restaurant waste took a few weeks of learning, not over night. And now regularly/reliably provides more than enough fruit, vegetable, bread, cereal, processed meat, cheese and so forth.
For fresh protein the two young men raise a few laying hens [eggs] [i]. The birds are also fed from the dumpsters [ii]. For micronutrients and flavor they raise herbs and salad greens in scavenged containers, filled with humus and compost.
I wish I had been this smart when I was in college. Do you?
[i] www.eggloo.com and www.egglu.com. [ii] 75 neighbors signed a petition supporting their poultry permit.
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