aslove the post...just dropped off the map for 6 months...wanted to thank you for the posting...

LOL! I forgot I even posted this post.

sorry for the late response ...just back from 6 months in Yellowstone...no cell phone service, no internet...

"Capitalism" is the best fighter of "hunger"...

Wonder how the EPA operates now under Trump.
Haven't heard anything since a new boss was appointed. It HAS to be better.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/a...

Thirty years ago when I worked for my father's engineering company back in New Jersey the company received a design contract to supply a sea water pumping system for an abalone farm. The concept was to use a reconditioned VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier) to create the farm. If turned out to be successful other mollusks would have been farmed. When the plan was submitted to the EPA for environmental impact study it was killed after a month. It just shows how far a gov't agency will go to stymie innovation. The EPA was created 37 years ago.

Check out this recycling indoor aqua farming technique.https://youtu.be/_clR8K61OhY

Enhanced flavor and taste is generally the case about such backyard gardens as you describe.

Well, that's that. Thanks, free.

I appreciate the thought and science behind the increase in efficiency. I try to apply it to everything I do. However, my instinct tells me that these crops will lack nutrients and other essentials, becoming "filler" which could be said about much of our mass produce. The absolute best tasting and vibrant vegetables I ever eat are from my mother's small garden, completely organic and watered by the unpredictability of what the weather holds. It could supply five families in any given year. My mother started it 45 years ago. Yield varies year to year, but the flavor and taste make one frown upon almost any store bought food. One can try to control nature, but it rarely has a positive outcome.

Not to worry. My species couldn't get past the Late Jurassic.
T-Rex, Triceratops, others appeared during the Cretaceous Period that came next.

Looks great out of my window on west 85th today, dino.

It is a great method, ski. Been using it off and on since the 80's, and Mel has improved it over time. (Just wear a mask so you don't breathe the dust from the mixing process.)

Interesting stuff.I think that large brains could grow without all that much change in the bodies of say, Allosours. But watch out, here come de comets brudder.

That does strike me as a pertinent question.
Me dino dunno.

Found that picture I recall seeing in a book~
https://www.quora.com/If-dinosaurs-st...
While searching, I found a picture I haven't seen before~
http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoolo...

Thanks for the extra input.

Amazing article, too immense tho', overloaded my computer LOL. I was hoping to learn just how much of all that was paid for by Government, no luck, tho.

I wonder if the dinos had a few million years more, they would develop a brain. And sometime during that time apes developed into hominids and evolution provided two intelligent species. Maybe on some other planet......

Rodale's article isn't entirely correct. Most plants can thrive in 6" of Mel's Mix, our soilless growing medium. Exceptions include long carrots, potatoes, leeks, etc., which require 12". In my experience, most weeding consists of tearing out grass that grows into the boxes from the perimeter. Expense can be minimized by starting a small SFG consisting of one or two beds, then adding more the next season. We also grow many "tall" crops (tomatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins, melons, etc. on vertical trellises. If anyone has questions, please PM me.

Save for a pandemic, the population will keep multiplying.
To remain on one planet only guarantees that we will go the way of the dinosaurs. .
My species moniker mysteriously died out millions of years before the 6-miles-wide asteroid wiped out dinosaurs altogether.

Ah. Missed that part. My apologies.

I don't have a problem with putting solar on top of buildings. I do have a problem with it taking up valuable agricultural space, however.

Had to look that up. Thanks.
https://www.rodalesorganiclife.com/ga...

A tiny patch of dessert called Isrel has also illustrated how to make Prosperity come forth from hard work and the use of technology. We have known for many years that the planet can provide food for all humanity at present and for the higher populations of the future. The time will come when space exploration is not an adventure but a necessity. But not today, or the foreseeable future.

The movie "The Martian" has vividly illustrated that point.