Trip to New York via Lodi, Ohio

Here we are safe and sound after traveling over 6,000 miles from St. George, Utah to New York. We spent time with family and friends in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Indiana along the way. We even toured the Lake Superior Circle around the largest inland lake in the United States and traversed the Soo Locks both ways out to the Canadian side and into the American side. We are happy but a little exhausted from all the beauty we have surveyed in our great country.

We travel from West Lafayette, Indiana to New Albany, Indiana to take part in a growers conference for a hydoponic company called Crop King. I took a few pictures at one of the commercial growers farm while there and enjoyed the training along with the other participants. We met others interested in Hydoponic growing of vegetables from Mississippi, Kentucky, Honduras, Texas, and Kansas.

After we left Indiana we traveled on to Lodi, Ohio where the Crop King Corporation is headquartered and toured the research greenhouse there. The pristine and immaculate condition of the show greenhouse reminded us how a commercial one should look like, while we were there they gave us vegetables picked the morning of our visit. We had tomatoes, lettuce, and cucumbers enough to last us for two weeks. Only one more meal of lettuce is left now.

As you may have realized by now, we love gardening and growing our own produce. This is one of the focuses of our trip, seeing how the food is produced in various parts of our nation. And we hope to promote the cause of organic methods where ever we decide to finally settle in to keep house and garden.

These last two pictures are of the lettuce production in nutrient trays that produce a new crop every 4 weeks and the product is great tasting with no residue from soil or bugs. Now that is a great inducement to try hydoponics if one has ever grown lettuce in the garden with all that comes with soil growing and bug infestations.