Oh... We really should start getting serious about growing our own foods now...

And just in case things weren't interesting enough already, there's yet more news about extreme weather events taking a toll on food production. Have you noticed how much food prices are escalating? If you have a way to start growing some of your own food, now would be a great time to get started:
http://www.naturalnews.com/032019_extreme_weather_crop_failures.html

Let's shed some light on how things grow... with visible and invisible light!

Emission spectrum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Emission (light)

In physics, emission is the process by which a higher energy quantum mechanical state of a particle becomes converted to a lower one through the emission of a photon, resulting in the production of light. The frequency of light emitted is a function of the energy of the transition. Since energy must be conserved, the energy difference between the two states equals the energy carried off by the photon. The energy states of the transitions can lead to emissions over a very large range of frequencies. For example, visible light is emitted by the coupling of electronic states in atoms and molecules (then the phenomenon is called fluorescence or phosphorescence). On the other hand, nuclear shell transitions can emit high energy gamma rays, while nuclear spin transitions emit low energy radiowaves.

The emittance of an object quantifies how much light is emitted by it. This may be related to other properties of the object through the Stefan–Boltzmann law. For most substances, the amount of emission varies with the temperature and the spectroscopic composition of the object, leading to the appearance of color temperature and emission lines. Precise measurements at many wavelengths allow the identification of a substance via emission spectroscopy.

Emission of radiation is typically described using semi-classical quantum mechanics: the particle's energy levels and spacings are determined from quantum mechanics, and light is treated as an oscillating electric field that can drive a transition if it is in resonance with the system's natural frequency. The quantum mechanics problem is treated using time-dependent perturbation theory and leads to the general result known as Fermi's golden rule. The description has been superseded by quantum electrodynamics, although the semi-classical version continues to be more useful in most cases.

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I like science... and I want to understand how to grow my own food!

Here's my assumption - most of us will learn how to grow our own food.  But how does that strike you when you say to yourself - "I will grow my own food!"

Say it a few times -
"I will grow my own food!"
"I will grow my own food!"
"I will grow my own food!"

Okay - how does that make you feel?

Here's what I feel about this statement - I feel happy and empowered.

At the present time I am dependent on food that someone else has grown - and I am hoping they grew it in a way that science will tell me it is safe and nutritious for me!!

And yet I will grow my own food - soooo....

I want to know the science behind how food should be grown - because I am in charge of growing it for myself and for my children and for any other fellow human being.

So let's figure out the science of how to grow healthy for you foods!

What can anyone grow?

Of the 6 billion of people on the planet today - how many grow their own food?

Umm... let's say that xx% grows food for everyone else.

So, how do they grow the food?

The subsequent posts should provide "directionally correct" information about how food is grown in general - and/or specific to different parts of our world.

My hope is that others will comment and contribute to this information.

Ultimately, my hope is that I will hear answers from YOU - ABOUT WWYG?

If life is brutal and somewhere something more than the rain grows living things...

WWYG?  

What Would You Grow?

I am asking this question because I am curious to find out what people would grow.

If - life is tough - which it is - as Kipling recites...

and you need food to survive - which we all do...

and

somewhere - where you have never traveled - like the future - where cummings begins...

and we are all headed that way...

What Would You Grow?

WWYG? 

"somewhere i have never traveled" by e e cummings

"If" by Rudyard Kipling (poetry reading)

If

        BY RUDYARD KIPLING

If you can keep your head when all about you   

    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

    But make allowance for their doubting too;   

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

    Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,

    And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;   

    If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;   

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

    And treat those two impostors just the same;   

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

    And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

    And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

    And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

    To serve your turn long after they are gone,   

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

    Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,   

    Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

    If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

    With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,   

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,   

    And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

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