Lucky Child,

I grew up with gardens all around me, but mostly flower gardens, every kind of flower imaginable…  and flowers all year long, in sunny California…  Here and there were tomato plants and lettuces, just for fun, and to have these at hand, and to keep in mind where our food comes from.  Then, I grew up, and moved away from home, and had my first garden of my own creation…  And I concentrated mostly on veggies…  but with a few nasturtiums, to keep the aphids off my green beans, a few daisies, to decorate my table, for guests to admire.  Everywhere I have lived, I’ve tried to keep a garden in the picture, for veggies and flowers, for the fun and enjoyment they bring…

I’ve just recently moved to a rural area that’s new to me,

but one of my goals in being here is to turn a room in my new lodgings into an indoor farm.  This has been an ambition of mine ever since I first heard about others who are doing it, too.  Having run the Speakeasy vegetarian restaurant in Nice, France for so many years, I used to dream, in my little kitchen, of sunny skies over open fields with neat long rows of green beans, growing on lattice-work twin tied between bamboo poles, deep orange squashes under green leafy vines creeping on the ground along with dark green zucchinis under the white stems of leeks standing tall, with leafy bouquets of radish greens, to accompany my lettuce in salads, both the greens and the spicy red roots hiding underground…  Ah, for that authentic contact with nature, healing all our over-exposure to artificial lights, and inside air, and more recently the electro-magnetic waves that eminate from our ubiquitous, adictive electronic devices…

Healing Contact with Nature–  and a hedge against the GSM.

Is the Grand Solar Minimum a real threat, or an artificial boogey man?  I intend to leave that for each one to consider, at least at the present state of this (possibly) evolving phenomenon…  I leave it to you to do the research and judge for yourself.  But when considering the available evidence, don’t neglect what eminent scientists and engineers have to say.  Those who would have us believe that this is an imaginary threat are good at putting out a lot of sneering content…  They’re just trying to drown the fish, as the French saying goes…  Don’t let that stop you from taking the question seriously!

However that may be, an indoor farm, a technical possibility in this day and age, will allow those who live in circumstances, like urban dwellers, where plots of land are not available, and growing conditions are less than favorable during most of the year.  A room, or even a closet, can be turned into an efficient veggie production area with the possibility of saving you time and money (in the long run), while permitting you to reestablish, or for some to establish for the first time, that psychologically grounding and stabilizing contact with Nature that we all need and crave…

This website is to be the story of my indoor farm, from start to finish, to help motivate you to take the plung as well…  Om a shoestring, or with all the latest, chic-est gear…

All the best,

Guenady

guenady@indoorfarmingforall.com
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