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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-11 10:52 AM Original message |
Preliminary research shows that many vegetables have lost significant amounts of nutritional value |
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HysteryDiagnosis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-11 11:00 AM Response to Original message |
1. Kicked and recced, I hope they never bastardize the beloved blueberry, the extract of it |
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Frustratedlady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-11 11:03 AM Response to Original message |
2. I heartily agree. Unless you've tasted garden veggies in the past, |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-11 11:11 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. I just had some green beans from |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-11 11:11 AM Response to Original message |
4. I was trying to get this point across on the "only the wealthy can afford nutrious food" |
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Frustratedlady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-11 11:25 AM Response to Reply #4 |
9. We used to raise hydroponic tomatoes (ripened on the vine, not picked green) |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-08-11 02:56 AM Response to Reply #9 |
22. Small plot, all in shade, floods daily in the Summer. nt |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-08-11 06:47 AM Response to Reply #4 |
25. Try growing your own. |
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Viva_La_Revolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-11 11:12 AM Response to Original message |
5. lousy dirt grows lousy food |
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Frustratedlady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-11 11:29 AM Response to Reply #5 |
10. It can be restored with organic mulch. |
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JoeyT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-11 12:32 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. I envy anyone that can grow cauliflower. |
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sofa king (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-08-11 05:48 AM Response to Reply #10 |
24. My friends reclaimed a gravel parking lot this year. |
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surrealAmerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-11 12:02 PM Response to Reply #5 |
15. This is true, but it's not what this article is about. |
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Frustratedlady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-11 02:41 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. I realize that, I was responding to the lousy soil comment. n/t |
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Demeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-11 11:14 AM Response to Original message |
6. Which is why I sneer at vegans |
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Strelnikov_ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-11 11:17 AM Response to Original message |
7. But they can be shipped 10,000 miles and still look fresh a month later |
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Richard D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-11 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
8. Organic might cost more . . . |
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madmax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-11 11:29 AM Response to Original message |
11. K & R n/t |
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Cassandra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-11 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
12. Also increased CO2... |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-11 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
13. IIRC rresearch several years ago showed that organically grown produce had |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-11 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
14. The best tasting tomatoes we grow here are the "tommy toe" (cherry) ones. |
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AndyTiedye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-11 04:21 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. Best Tomatoes HERE are Japanese Black Truffle Tomatoes |
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InvisibleTouch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-11 08:05 PM Response to Reply #14 |
21. Thanks for the heirloom seed source! |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-11 02:43 PM Response to Original message |
18. The best evidence of this |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-08-11 02:58 AM Response to Reply #18 |
23. I think that most of us do know what "home grown" tastes like |
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azul (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-07-11 07:38 PM Response to Original message |
20. Then on to the follow-up studies: |
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