What’s a Hoop House?
By admin on Mar 16, 2008 in Our Daily Planet
Winter Robinson is a medical intuitive, a healer, and a woman who comes from a long line of psychics.
She was a very interesting guest on Blogtalk radio recently and she brought up a number of very interesting topics to think about.
One of the easiest and best ways to help heal the earth, is to conserve her energy.
One of the effective methods Winter suggested was to eat foods that are local.
This means foods that haven’t been transported 2000 miles away. That conserves gas and energy.
One of the ways that those of us in cold climates can eat nutritious organic veggies all year round is to build what is known as a hoop house.
I looked this up and found that the Center for Innovative Food Technology gave a demonstration of year-round growing techniques by harvesting vegetables from a “hoop house” structure it constructed at Bittersweet Farms on Archbold-Whitehouse Road in Whitehouse.
A hoop house is like a greenhouse but requires almost no energy or heat. The food technology center, a program of EISC Inc., has the house to study increasing produce production and to demonstrate how area farmers can increase profits by using the concept.
Their harvest included Chioggia and Burpee Golden beets; Waldman Green, Red Fire, and Buttercrunch lettuce; Florida Broadleaf mustard; and Cherry Belle, French Breakfast, and White Icicle radishes.
Sounds like a great idea to me. You can listen to more of what Winter had to say at www.blogtalkradio.com/quantumradio
