Halophytes are plants that a salt-tolerant:
I posted this next link also in the congruent organization page of the Wiki:
And this next one look slike a good link for some research. Not quite sure where the best place to post it would be, so here it is:
Pure speculation: I wonder if it would be possible to hybridize cord grass and sugar cane?
I’d also been considering the value of allowing several species of animals(and plants), endemic to other countries, to run(I’m aware the plants can’t run) free on a seastead. Imagine the monopoly you’d have over the zoos of the world when the day comes that one or more of the animals you have goes extinct everywhere except for your seastead.
Then there’s the value of wildlife in promoting eco-tourism.
King Shannon of the Constitutional Monarchy of Logos.
Halophytes are a neccesity for a sea stead colony i think. By the way you can extract some amount of sugar from kelp as far as i know, there is a japanese immigrant(they must ve been citizens by now) family who are doing it as a trade in Canada. They sell hi-quality kelp flakes too… Watched a documentry about algea some time ago, it was mentioned there…
There arent a huge amount of mangrove plants that produce edible fruit to my knowledge, but if two species could be cross-bred in such a way that the result retains the ability to live in saltwater and produce good fruit, then why not/ (Although of course, genetic modification would have to be heavily involved in that process, I very much doubt a new species could be created by chance in such a short time)
Chickens, Pigs, and Goats. All can be feed using hydroponic fodder. (Aussies are using it in drought areas now to feed cows.)
Chicken for eggs and meat and waste for fertilizer
Pigs meat and waste for fertilizer
Goats for dairy and meat and waste for fertilizer
My chickens get the left over micro green roots as I finish a pan of them we grow.
Chucker 1 year, 8 months ago.
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