Comments on: Sustainable Produce

By: Philip Ngai

Philip Ngai — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 03:01:29 +0000

I find it hard to believe that you can store a sufficient amount of heat from the summer to use in the winter in most locations to make it practical.

By: Thales

Thales — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 14:02:08 +0000

So Ketchup really is a vegetable!

By: A.B. Prosper

A.B. Prosper — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 02:42:11 +0000

I’ve grown organic tomatoes and homegrown ones do taste better than hothouse ones.

The taste difference is not an enormous margin and for the mass of people these days with fairly numb palates, they probably won’t care. Canadian hothouse tomatoes in particular are really good.

And Grasspunk, I smell diatribe too. Most probably either a dislike for the “organic” culture, fear of higher prices or a subtle realization that there are way too many people to feed with organic means

By: Candide III

Candide III — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 23:30:04 +0000

I have the impression that these industrial tomatoes taste like plastic on your table. Give me hand-picked organic, I’ll pay double any day.

By: Grasspunk

Grasspunk — Sun, 29 Nov 2015 16:56:55 +0000

This reminds me of the old Star Trek where some visitors get all their daily nutrition from a pill and Scotty takes one and gets him well fed on fantastic food and drunk on Scotch.

Kinda weak that she’s using tomatoes as an example, things that have been grown in hothouses for a very long time. A really intensive crop to grow. She’s cherry tomato picking.

I’m not really getting her point — it seems a diatribe against organic hand-picked tomatoes in the farmers market. Like big deal, that’s a tiny portion of the market.