Earth Friendly Eating

Everyone seems to be Pointing Green.
Green is Good.

Except we like our Tomatoes RED.

This blog has been featuring the concept of
Growing your Own for Health and Wealth,
and the way our current Economic conditions are pointing,
The Home Garden will be a huge Topic this coming Spring.
In fact, now is the time to PLAN for your Abundant harvest.
Jump over to our Squidoo Posts and focus on the Seed
catalogs.

Also look over the great display of our affiliate sponsors
to your Left .

Order early, there will be a rush.

Along the same Lines I wanted to share this great article in
October Issue of one of my Favorite periodicals for the past 60 years.

From Readers' Digest
Article by Janis Graham

Earth-Friendly Eating

What's good for your body turns out to be good for the environment. Substitute chicken, fish or vegetables for Red Meat and Dairy just one day a week, and your family of four will eliminate the green house gases produced by a 760-mile car trip, say researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, who studied the impact of dozens of foods.

Other Ways ( that make more sense to me) to do your Part

Buy Local and Fresh Hooray!!!
Local isn't better if the food is stored for long periods of time (inane statement, who is going to store Local Produce?) Fresh-picked fare not only avoids long trips in fume-spewing trucks, planes and boats, but is also packs more nutrients and requires no preservatives. (that makes sense to this old veggie farmer)

Choose sun-ripened Fruits and vegetables
They generate fewer emissions than produce raised in heated Greenhouse.
(well, the plants don't create more emissions the Green house does from it's Heating source) Find out what is season in your area www.nrdc.org
Cut back on Processed Foods Hooray again!
A lot of mileage goes into foods with artificial sweetners, additives and preservatives because these ingredients are often shipped to the manufacturer from other locations. (more important is the faxct they just don't taste as GOOD and are not as GOOD for YOU)

Well, the Reader's Digest shared some powerful Information. More reasionds to
plan and plant your Garden this coming year. and if you are in Mild climate NOW, get those cole crops and onions and Greens in the ground and Enjoy the Health and Wealth of a successful garden.

Very soon, within weeks form this date 11-12-2008 I wil be releasing
an Excitinfg DVD showing you HOW TO Grow Tomatoes for Health and Wealth
Drop me an Email chuck@beginnersmarketingclass.com
or leave a Commentt. They will make DANDY Christmas presents
Follow a successful 24 plant from planting to final harvest and
see the Production and Income.

If you can't wait for more Info, call me
530-798-0245 Days Pacific

The Tomatoes are Ripeneing and the Piggy Bank is Growing

We have Color and Harvest.....
It is a start

Well it was 88 days since planting the Stupice and Early Girl varieties.

That time lag may bother some who are used to 65-70 day Early Girls, but remember I prune heavily on the bottom set so I give up the first set of fruit.

The following video will show our pruning methods.




Our "harvest" so far has yielded just under 10 pounds. That is far cry from our Thousand Pound Goal, but we have a long season coming. But the 8.25 pounds have generated a whopping $5.00.

Shirley said we had to eat the first couple pounds ourselves.

Growing Tomatoes for Health and Wealth is getting to be a good project. I love the activity and we are generating a lot of interest in a customer base for the tomatoes

The Garden Behind the Barn has generated a great Harvest and also provided and is providing cash flow. We harvested about 15 # of spinach on a small bed about 10' feet long. Besides what we ate our Neighbor begged for a supply and we sold a total of $15.00, not bad from a $1.79 seed investment. We will plant spinach back in September for some fall Spinach.

And as the Tomato Video shows, we set out about 24 Red onion sets in January and out yield was
over 35#

Our KY Pole Beans are yielding about 3# a day and easy to sell at $1.75 per pound. So far besides what we ate and are eating we grossed about $20.00. Seed cost and Trellis $13.50. We should harvest another 60-70 pounds before we get too hot and the beans quit blooming.

We will plant some Bush beans in September again for a fall crop.

Th point here is almost anyone with a small patch of ground, or a patio, can spend some time relaxing time after their hectic Business life and grow some nutritional food and possible "market" the surplus.

If you would like more detailed ideas about these concepts, may I recommend

A couple of Books from the Mittleider System.


Six steps to Successful Gardening is a must for anyone's Library

And of course as a great companion, add Mittleider's Let's Grow Tomatoes