08-06-2010, 10:36 AM
Re: Breadfruit. Everyone has their preferences. For me breadfruit is better than merely a survival food (though it's great for this purpose). We enjoy it. Just had roasted breadfruit with grilled onions for lunch.
Re: Degree of agricultural productivity vs. money spent. It's not quite that simple. For me, there are a multitude of factors that combine to make the additional expense worthwhile. A few off the top of my head are increased solar panel performance, better neighborhood, suitable location for a water well, more cheerful environment (ie. more sunshine, less gray skies), and a happier spouse. This is in addition, of course, to greatly increased variety of what can be grown and typically much healthier growing of plants that grow in either area. All of these are worth something to me and combined with others (which aren't readily coming to mind at the moment), I'm willing to pay extra for them. To each his own though, we're all looking for a little different scenario.
Re: Degree of agricultural productivity vs. money spent. It's not quite that simple. For me, there are a multitude of factors that combine to make the additional expense worthwhile. A few off the top of my head are increased solar panel performance, better neighborhood, suitable location for a water well, more cheerful environment (ie. more sunshine, less gray skies), and a happier spouse. This is in addition, of course, to greatly increased variety of what can be grown and typically much healthier growing of plants that grow in either area. All of these are worth something to me and combined with others (which aren't readily coming to mind at the moment), I'm willing to pay extra for them. To each his own though, we're all looking for a little different scenario.