Perfect example of in-situ agriculture yielding ~ $20/pound. Systems. Systems. This is what physicists do when they change jobs: geek and eat.
Readily tweakable for other environments and economies. From Smithsonian Magazine.
High tech greenhouses in the desert, physicist. Lovely. "In 1991, a French nursery called Marionnet introduced Mara des Bois, a deep red strawberry with soft, melting flesh and a fantastically intense perfume... it fetches a premium price, and accounts for about a tenth of the nation's strawberry harvest."
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/strawberry-side.html?c=y&page=1 |
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With strawberries in the ground here in Northern Maine we get them all in the last week of June and first couple weeks in July. Would the greenhouse get a longer season? Also, since they normally grow in beds would you scrap containers and just build one huge trough inside the greenhouse. Interesting thought though...maybe even low bush blueberries could be grown?
With strawberries in the ground here in Northern Maine we get them all in the last week of June and first couple weeks in July. Would the greenhouse get a longer season? Also, since they normally grow in beds would you scrap containers and just build one huge trough inside the greenhouse. Interesting thought though...maybe even low bush blueberries could be grown?
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