Growing My Own Food, Indoors
Food Independence Is Life Changing!
Lately, I’ve been growing my own food, indoors, in what I call my Green Smoothie Tower.
I started with a “tower,” but friends of GreenSmoothieGirl complained it was too expensive.
So we did more research and negotiated a much better priced deal with Lettuce Grow, with your whole first Farmstand, up to 36 ports in it, including a full set of baby plants to get you started.
I’ve gardened since I was a little girl, and wherever we moved, my dad being an officer in the U.S. Air Force, we grew a large garden. I had to pull 500 weeds every morning. I didn’t plan or plant the garden; I just did the “grunt work!”
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But not everyone has space for a garden, since most live in apartments, condos, and homes governed by strict HOA’s.
So even though it might seem strange to have a contraption growing vertically, it’s pretty great to have a Green Smoothie Tower right in my house, to cut kale, chard, collards, spinach, and basil, to throw in the blender.
Make sure to get in on the special offer, which will motivate you to get your Farmstand out of the box, and get it growing your food!
A quart a day of green smoothie is the best way I know to stave off all the modern diseases of affluence.
Sure, a giant platter of salad every day is a great way to go, but a smoothie gets an entire giant platter of greens into your daily diet, and without oils and salad dressing. Just 100% whole plant foods.
Including fruit, which you’ve been indoctrinated to think of as “sugars,” but which are in fact the highest-vibration foods on the planet, not to mention delicious.
Not to mention fiber, both soluble and insoluble–fruits are some of the most perfect foods on Earth, as well as the most delicious.
I haven’t written the post yet, about why I don’t get colonoscopies (which will NOT be medical advice) but the short version is, I don’t get them for two reasons.
One, my diet is 80% high-fiber plant foods, and 99% plant-based in general–putting me at extremely low risk for colorectal cancers.
(The other reason is the complications of colonoscopies. When this came up in comments on a FB post I did about screening procedures I don’t choose to get, two people commented that they knew someone whose bowel was perforated during a colonoscopy, which caused a septic infection and death.
While that is far more likely with sections of dying colon, which people often have whose diet is mostly processed food and animal products–I just personally haven’t chosen to get colonoscopies, for those two reasons.)
So, how to make it easy to have your own nutrient-dense foods that keep your GI tract healthy, and grow your food year-round?
Get a Lettuce Grow Farmstand here, and they’re throwing in a whole set of “seedlings” that you can choose. Peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, and every kind of greens and herbs imaginable.
It’s your best defense against all the ugly diseases, not just colorectal cancers.
You can grow with 90% less space, 98% less water, 6 crops per year back-to-back, regardless of the weather outside, 3X faster, and with no dirt.
Hydroponics is a modern invention, and that and other innovations are part of why humans have never been more productive, while also doing less physical labor than anyone in history.
I can’t solve the problems of many of our seniors unable to spend hours on their knees planting and tending to gardens. And I can’t solve the fact that most people have no access to a plot of dirt, secure from strangers (or bugs, for that matter), both of which could help themselves to your harvest.
But, I can teach you this cool, modern way to provide nutrient-dense food, with minimal effort, year round. One of the advantages is that growing inside, your likelihood of pests is very low. And you can grow without using herbicide, like glyphosate/Roundup.
(I also avoid using herbicide outside, but my best efforts still result in caterpillars eating most of my chard, and more.)
You can get any of 5 different sizes of Lettuce Grow Farmstands, for indoor or outdoor use.
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Let’s grow an army of people becoming more food sovereign, while we also grow our own food!
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36 years ago we moved from semi-rural into a rather 'posh' suburb--only because here were fine schools and the early 19th C. stone farmhouse husband had always wanted. With what came to be known as soccer moms all around, I wanted ensure that my own children knew where their food came from--the sweating under hot sun in high humidity, the blisters from hoeing. Two hated it; one did not. One said, "I don't need to do this--I'm never going to be a gardenist!" And guess what? They all became 'gardenists', even while living in cities (one found desk drawers out for trash, took them home to her apartment, filled them with dirt and planted grass seed. Just to have something green of her own. That was also the one who did not hate the hard work. One is now working in Japan, and by making connections to her students, gets to go to their relatives' gardens to work in the soil. And is repaid with produce. This was the 'never a gardenist', btw.
Robyn, I've seen others express doubts about hydroponic systems, warning us that supermarket produce (e.g., tomatoes) grown that way not only often tastes bland but also lacks many of the essential nutrients that make them good for us. They explain that's because they're not grown in soil and can't take up nutrients that confer the health benefits we've traditionally gotten from farm-grown produce (especially organically farmed produce grown without pesticides and herbicides). Instead, they explain that hydroponically-grown food is fertilized with chemicals that may or may not cause health problems and isn't as nutritious as produce grown in actual dirt. I wonder what you think about that view.