The Good Life – FRESH food
From: Phyllis Davis, Co-Inventor, Portable Farms(TM) Aquaponics Systems and President, Portable Farms, Inc.
Photo above: Colle Davis, Inventor of Portable Farms(TM) Aquaponics Systems,
holding three heads of butter-crunch lettuce that took 40-days to grow
Hello my friends!
As we listen to our family and friends around the country talk about shoveling snow, San Diego celebrates our 70 degree F, warm winter days. Of course, we also deal with earthquakes (we had a big 4.5 shaker on Sunday afternoon – no damages), mudslides and a state that faces a $20.7 billion dollar budget deficit, so maybe snow isn’t so bad after all. LOL
While today’s blog may be slightly focused outside of our aquaponics systems, I did promise you that we’d also comment on us, our business and how we function as inventors and entrepreneurs.
Our fish and vegetables are growing stronger and larger every day. As the day’s lengthen, we’ll unplug our grow lights around March 1 and then add seedlings to grow plants that enjoy the warmer, longer days. We have planted and harvested many many plants in our relatively new backyard farm (installed in December 2009) since our move to San Diego. I’ve posted a photo of Colle Davis (above) with three heads of butter-crisp lettuce from our farm. We put all three heads in a very large salad bowl, added a couple of tablespoons of organic, Nappa Valley extra-virgin olive oil, a single clove of finely chopped/smashed garlic, and a dash of sea salt. Then we gathered a few friends around our enormous, round, dining room table and enjoyed our fresh salad, some grilled tilapia and a hot baguette of french bread. Ahhh . . . the good life.
Portable Farms, Inc. is busy with ‘our business’ and we provide tours to those who want to own one of our systems, so everyday is full of interesting people who come to tour the farms and sit with us near the farm and talk about their interest in becoming ‘self-sustaining’ as a family or community, or, about their interest in growing food and fish for commercial reasons.
Eat your veges today! Especially the green ones. 
Your friend,
Phyllis Davis