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Monroe County Fair reaches space age |
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By Robert Barlow, staff writer
Rush-Henrietta Post
Tue Jul 08, 2008, 07:24 AM EDT
Henrietta, N.Y. -
Attendees of this year’s Monroe County Fair will be able to eat like astronauts.
In order to colonize or travel to other planets, space explorers must produce their own food. Traditional farming won’t work because alien soils may be hostile to agriculture and soil is too heavy to take into space. The solution — hydroponics — or growing in something that is not soil based. |
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Could rising prices feed appetite for gardens? |
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Food Bytes
Tuesday, May 27, 2008 | 07:47 AM ET
by Amber Hildebrandt, CBCNews.ca
Call it the zero-mile diet. Call it a victory garden. Even call it a potager if you want to sound chic. |
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St. David's Hydroponics grows them for shipment across North America
By Lynn Ogryzlo, Just a Taste
Columns: May 30, 2008 They harvest about 75 kilos of giant, perfect peppers each week. St. David's Hydroponics is a whopping 17 1/2 acres of agricultural activity under glass -- and it's hot. As I walked through the thousands of eight-foot tall pepper plants, workers were harvesting red peppers. Huge trailers full and overflowing with glistening, beautiful peppers were being wheeled into the packaging area to be sorted by size and packaged by weight. Boxes were piled high, waiting for shipment to grocery stores that would offer these tasty peppers within 24 hours of being picked. Now that's fresh! |
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