Fargo Foodie's version of Urban Green Survival

I promised directions on making Bean Sprouts at home, but I still don't have the technique down.   What has stopped me from sharing my attempts at growing sprouts and lettuce is that it takes too much electricity.  I found this the other day, and seems like a great option to keeping growth at home green and I will use this spot to start adding in various techniques that people use to stay green and healthy.  This "bloke" seems to be from Australia.  The Blog is Called "Urban Green Survival"
http://urbangreensurvival.blogspot.com/p/hanging-bottle-garden.html


Video of Hanging Bottle Wall Garden from YouTube.

and another site from Nova Scotia, requiring electricity with fish tank pumps and a grow light because there isn't that much available....
http://youtu.be/4uQ6Pc8YKr8

There is also a Wisconsin Gardens video about making a bottle garden with kids.   Really great project, some of the feedback for that included "I didn't have to water the plants for 6 months".  Now that is a fail safe kid project.   Hopefully when I get enough soda bottles and when I rig it up correctly, I will only have to water my herbs once a week.  I may only start with 3 herbs:  oregano, basil and thyme sound good to me.  Anyway, although I failed the last time, I think I might be successful this time with the following:

MUNG BEAN SPROUTS AT HOME, FRESH, FUN AND FULL OF NUTRIENTS:

Day one:  select sprouts,
use available jar,
canning for me,
netting from shallots
and ring from jar.
Cost is price of seeds,
only need about 20
at the most 

Using everything I already have at home:
DAY ONE:

 I bought the Mung Seeds from Cashwise, I didn't want to invest in pounds of the seed because:  I wasn't sure if this would work, I didn't know if I would use them, I only have one recipe that calls for them and I don't know if I will like the taste.   The only other issue has to do with food safety and I think that by making them at home there is a lot less of a chance of getting sick from them.

Soak beans overnight,
not longer because they
will go bad, how do I
know?   My first attempt
was just .....   that way.

DAY TWO:  It is hard to see here but the seeds seem to be opening up.  The last time I did this the water was already cloudy, not happening......so far.       Tomorrow, DAY THREE, will be the turning point.  After 5 days the sprouts are at their max.   Only a few seeds and now I have a nutritious component to another meal.  Next week I start receiving deliveries from BlueBird Gardens, and I will share those recipes as they show up.   Hope you love this as much as I do.

Day 2, pour out water
rinse and let drain,
once again, too much
water is NOT a good
thing, NOR is too little.
sprouts are beginning
to form!!!!!

I have 5 of the 7 bottles I need to start sprouting my herbs and I will continue to add to this blog.   Today is June 2, and the bean sprouts are done.   By mid June my herb garden will be posted on this date, check back for more from FF UBS  (Fargo Foodie Urban Green Survival)

THIS IS working well.                                                                                                

They are ready for
action, wait too long
and they will be bitter,
it is close, the green
leaves are kind of late
maybe too late, oh well
they will become part
of a stir fry with my
first CSA meal in
a few days...yea...

Day 3, look at the
little sprouties.....

This was the part that
was hard for me to believe.
Wouldn't they dry out?
Would they go bad?
I stuck with it.