MDDM: ch. 67 "Garden Pests"

[Terrance]

David Morris wrote:
> 
> >From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
> >Having tried my green thumbs at growing plants indoors (popular here in NYC
> >where hydroponics stores abound)
> 
> Of course most of those "amatuers" who practice hydroponic gardening aren't
> growing vegetables...
> 
> DM

Nope, like the professionals (the pros at Cold Spring Harbor, for
example) many an amateur will try their thumbs at growing fish,
beefsteak tomatoes (can't buy a a good beefsteak tomato here anymore) or
chickens. 

I visited an experimental farm in CT. They were growing fish in plastic
tubs. None of the fish had two heads or eight fins, I have seen these
mutants around cold spring harbor, but they were nearly translucent.
Well, they sell them to NYC's best restaurants so..... The waste from
the fish was filtered and fed to plants. The plants were grown in some
sort of sponge material sitting on PVC. 

Having studied up on PVC (the stuff eats your bones and is very bad fro
the lungs so be very careful, if you decide to put this stuff on your
house as siding, send the kids away while its being installed) I asked
why they were using such a dangerous material on an organic farm, but
got no real answer. 

They had all sorts of strange animals there, strange not because they
were oversized or from another world or mutants, but because they were
brought in from other continents and kept together. It was odd to see
llama and ostrich and bovine herded in the middle of a dense wood, but
there was some explanation for this, some "psychological synergy" at
work, just can't recall what.