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growing food

An illustration featuring rek and devine trying to make plants grow with their totoro powers

Growing food aboard is possible. Keeping soil aboard is not practical for a small vessel, but sprouting is a good alternative.

Mushrooms

We experimented with growing lion's mane from a kit made by a local company, it worked surprisingly well!

A cardboard box with the words: Live mycelium inside, grow your own gourmet mushrooms, lions made mushroom, handcultivated on Vancouver Island a photo of a lions mane mushroom growing A photo of a hand holding a harvested lions mane mushroom

Regrowing foods

Some vegetables can regrow from cuttings, like leek, cabbage, green onions, chives etc. Although we don't keep them in soil anymore, they'll re-grow if kept in water. You only need enough water to cover the roots.

a photo showing leek being regrown in soil in a container

When you buy a pot of basil, you are not buying one plant, but a tightly sown clump of more than 20 seedlings.

This gives the appearance of an extremely healthy, bushy plant, which looks great on the shelf. But the reality is that these seedlings soon start to compete with each other for space, causing the plants in the clump to succumb to lack nutrients.

To fix this, take the clump of plants and divide the root ball into quarters by gently tearing it apart with your fingers.

a photo showing leek being regrown in soil in a container with the stems now longer