Coming to a city near you?
Posted on 04/11/2015 7:29:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I like the idea. Will it work?
Would it work on a small scale? In a backyard?
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It can work for some foods, like lettuce. The choice of crops is important to make it profitable.
Coming to a city near you?
Highly subsidized vegetables. Just what we don’t need.
We’d be much further ahead if every family simply put in a Victory Garden in any open spaces they’ve got. No government subsidy or meddling required. Just get them the heck out of the way.
Half the country is using government subsidies to switch from fossil fuels to solar power.
And then these people find a way to use government subsidies to go from solar powered farming to fossil fuel powered farming.
Government subsidies: they can do anything!
I seem to remember reading that there are several companies doing this in nyc. One main advantage of this type of farming is the massive reduction of water required. I think it was around 20% of the water volume typically required. Could be useful in drought prone areas.
Great seeing it go commercial. Imagine restaurants buying their produce from around the corner romaine-scraper tower instead of trucked in for hundreds of miles, and the contamination factor negated.
Thanks for the post. Interesting. I graduated from Pasadena High School, long, long ago.
Sounds like a ‘follow the money’ project. Plenty of vacant land it Texas. Just add water.
I graduated from Pasadena High School, long, long ago.
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damn. a long time ago. ;-) Salute!
I had a friend buy a house and set it up for hydroponics. He then sold produce to local restaurants. It takes some good marketing and sales skills to get customers and make a profit. After a few years it became profitable. He got harassed by the cops for a while until he could show it was a legitimate business. The electric company turned him in for being a suspected grow house.
Consider the advantage of such greenhouses:
1. Highly-controlled growing environments, which means just about eliminating the need for pesticides and herbicides, not to mention being able to grow vegetables essentially year-round.
2. Very efficient water use, thanks to these greenhouses using hydroponics.
3. Because they can be located in urban areas, it means very low transportation costs and much higher quality of freshness of produce grown when finally sold at the retail level.
In short, we can effectively have farm-fresh produce of many types essentially year-round.
World’s Largest Indoor Farm is 100 Times More Productive
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3246076/posts
“every family put in a Victory Garden in any open spaces”
That would work great for folks that have homes or live in rural communities.
Sadly, this country has so many living in urban areas with no space...it won’t work.
Malthus and Ehrlich never invisioned this.
And that is the problem with most doom prognosticators - they see man’s potential through their own limited imagination and disregard the genius that exists in the rest of humanity.
Even in the urban areas, there are enumerable open spaces...which could be utilized if people used some ingenuity and if local bureaucrats didn’t make it impossible.
And most of America is not exactly close-packed urban.
“Most of America is not exactly...”
That is true as far as acreage goes...population, not so much.
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