Today we are in Stanley, the main town in the Falkland Islands. They are partly noted for their colorful roofs. Yesterday, both DeDe and Pop Pop had a massage. We were so relaxed we missed blogging (also, in part, because we were still at sea, and did not have much to report). This pm, we are going to a hydroponic (?) garden. We’ll be learning what that is.
Wow! We just got back from the Stanley Garden Centre. They have acres of support fields, and lots of smaller Quonset huts for starting seedlings. But the main growing area is a large series of Quonset huts covering 1/3 of an acre. In this structure they grow everything in fertilized water in a self-contained, recycled system, with no soil. There they grow peppers, tomatoes, lettuce, cukes, beans, etc. At the height of the summer, they harvest ½ ton of peppers, and over one ton of tomatoes per week. It is amazing how efficient agriculture can be.
