Why hydroponic plants taste bad

The other day I made an offhand comment in my piece about completely eliminating plastics from the food production chain about that hydroponically grown plants taste “bad.”

Why is that?

Most basic essential market garden / farm tools for the cheapskate

Market gardening can be a really bewildering maze of tools to someone getting into the field. If you follow all the advice you see out there, you’ll probably spend thousands of dollars on tools just to get started…

Pastured chicken paddock rotation system

For a variety of reasons, I don’t like chicken tractors as much as I thought I would.

Mostly, I think people who are taken with that idea (including me, originally) under-estimate how much work it is to move your chicken tractors…

String Latch Door Closure Mechanism

I recently had to build a couple of doors around my chicken coop area, and though that was simple enough, I had basically no clue as to what I could do to close these doors that would be convenient and weather proof, as one of them is outside.