Planting Winter Crops: I found this article very interesting because honestly, I never really knew that you could grow many vegetables other than pumpkins during the winter but, depending on what time of year you decide to harvest your crop and what you are going to put in them, their are SO many different foods to add to it! I also found it cool that that certain foods needs extra time to harvest and some needs a smaller amount of time. It just completely depends on what type of food you are going to harvest and when you are going to do it but their tons of different vegetables for different seasons.
For my own crop at home, I would like to try harvesting different foods that all need a different amount of time to harvest and see what the difference is or see how some develop over different times.
My question would be can you actually plant something in every season? Even in the coldest times of the Winter? And are there some foods that are able to harvest year round?
Growing Garlic:I found it interesting that it almost seems like the more cloves you have on your garlic is dependent on how strong or mild your garlic will taste. I was surprised that their was even more than one type of garlic! Plus, even though their are only two main types, inside those two main types, their are many other variations in color, texture, ect. For Serpent garlic, I never knew that to help the size of the bulb, it is a good idea to clip the flower stalk of early. Garlic is actually one of my favorite foods because I know that when I'm sick, all i have to do is take a couple garlic cloves a day and in less than a week, I am usually better> I find it a very healing food and so it's great to learn more about them.
My question would be is their a certain type of garlic that is actually the best for your body/your immune system? And if so, why is that one the best?
|In general, I would just love to harvest some garlic because I have never done that and I think it would be awesome since I am so interested in it!
Building Up and Protecting Soil: I would defiantly say that I take dirt for granted. I don't think that many people really think about how much it does for our earth and for the food we eat. It surprised me and it didn't when, in the article, it talked about how dirt has gotten a "bad name." This surprised me because it is SO important and it is needed for so many things but then I realized that even in my daily life, I do take it for granted and its is not appreciated as much as it should be.It amazed me to read about how much soil is actually involved in. Literally almost everything we do, soil or "dirt" has contributed to in some little way. I find that so crazy! I also never knew that only 20% of the earth is really covered by actual land and that most is covered by soil.
I would love to actually work more with soil now and find out how much it really is involved in. All I know is I definatly won't be taking it fro granted as I was before.
I wonder if all of the soil was taken from the Earth or at least 50% of it, how much differently would we be living our lives today and what major effects would this have on us as a society?
WHEAT BOARD DISMANTLED??: I think that it is, in a way, outrageous that basically the smaller farmers will be bought out of their jobs. Since wheat farmers with more money will be able to lower the cost of their wheat without it really affecting their job, they will completely take out the smaller wheat farmers, leaving them jobless. I think that this topic needs to be reviewed in depth because it's not right to some wheat farmers who may have been farmers and more skilled and educated on it that many of the farmers with more money. Of course, in the end, people will be buying the wheat that is at the cheapest price but I am sure that people don't really always know what they are buying and under what circumstances they are getting that wheat.
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