Iv been thinking about the need and the hassle of producing fast and fresh emergency food.
Even lettuces and radishes take 30+ in ideal growing conditions.
Yet sprouting seeds can be harvested within a few days.
Now the down side is the different types of sprouted seeds are not really my cup of tea.
The up side it the seeds store for years and years and once they are sprouted they are more nutritionally available to our digestive system.
They can be eaten raw or cooked, (think beansprouts)
They dont need daylight to germinate/sprout.
I was watching this video of farmers sprouting barley for animal feed and it made me realize how easy it would be to produce food for my family and for my animals that supply me with eggs and meat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZTikdxj8AI
It also seems that it could be more cost effective, for what they are saying its about a quarter of the price on the final weight.
The other option is growing micro green like this,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blBwFvAghTs
Ok you need light of some sort for this option but this could be done with a mix of natural sunlight and LED or strip lights to extend the plants daylight hours to 16-18 hours.
Dont forget you can still grow the same seeds to full size if you want.
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