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Bowery Farming is growing crops in warehouses to create food like customized kale
CNBC ^ | May 24, 2018 | Lora Kolodny and Magdalena Petrova

Posted on 05/24/2018 12:20:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

•Bowery Farming is using robotics and software to raise crops in warehouses outside of big cities.

•Jose Andres, Carla Hall and David Barber are among the star chefs who have invested in Bowery's indoor farming venture.

•The U.N. projects that by 2050, food production will need to increase by about 60 percent to feed the growing global population....

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Food
KEYWORDS: crops; farming; food; indoorfarming
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Raise your hand if you eat Kale on a regular basis.
1 posted on 05/24/2018 12:20:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why don’t they grow wheat, barley, corn, etc?
At least you can make beer and whisky from grains.
As for kale, I am trying recall if I have ever eaten kale.


2 posted on 05/24/2018 12:22:16 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

I never have. Had mustard greens a few times. Those were good.


3 posted on 05/24/2018 12:24:15 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’d rather have swiss chard. At least that tastes good with pasta, tomato sauce and parmesan. The stalks aren’t too bad battered and deep fried.


4 posted on 05/24/2018 12:26:47 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Moooo!...................


5 posted on 05/24/2018 12:27:22 PM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Both kale and chard are vastly overrated as far as flavor.
If I want fresh greens I generally stick with the Big Three;
Collard, Mustard and Turnip Greens.

Kale and chard go limp and slimy almost instantly.
Low to no flavor.
Good for those who see food primarily as a form of medicine.


6 posted on 05/24/2018 12:31:46 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I eat kale regularly—lacinato kale! But I have no idea what “customized kale” is!!!!

Besides that, growing kale will not even make a minuscule dent in feeding the hungry world. Really!!!!


7 posted on 05/24/2018 12:35:12 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Trillian

I”m growing Swiss Chard. Love the stuff. I sautee it in butter.

I grew one plant as an experiment and I did nothing to it and it grew into this beautiful plant. And before I could harvest it, the top half dissappeared. The next day the bottom half dissappeared. The next year I planted enough for the deer and me. Been eating it ever since.


8 posted on 05/24/2018 12:37:37 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We grow Jalapeños, serranos, anchos and swiss chard year-round in our basement.

The Mrs. LOVES hot peppers swiss chard.


9 posted on 05/24/2018 12:37:43 PM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I throw it in the vitamix with other stuff.


10 posted on 05/24/2018 12:38:34 PM PDT by riri
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I also recently bought a bag of kale chips. Pretty good although a little expensive.

Then I watched a youtube on ways to preserve food and the lady said you can drench kale in salad dressing and then dehydrate it.

The dehydrator arrives tomorrow.


11 posted on 05/24/2018 12:39:03 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

,p.no, don’t like it much, but if they have a local market for it, god bless them.


12 posted on 05/24/2018 12:39:59 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

With the pot hidden in between:-)


13 posted on 05/24/2018 12:41:27 PM PDT by Harpotoo
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To: Army Air Corps

As for kale, I am trying recall if I have ever eaten kale.

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Have you ever stripped off a piece of that vinyl-plastic material on certain kinds of paper binders after it started to ply off? If you ever tried to taste it, that would be like eating Kale


14 posted on 05/24/2018 12:41:58 PM PDT by z3n
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
According to Fain, 1 square foot within one of these indoor farms is 100 times more productive than 1 square foot of arable land.

It sounds like they learned this from the Israelis.

15 posted on 05/24/2018 12:43:22 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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I’ve never heard of “customized Kale”-is that another term for GMOs? I do grow it and eat it-but I agree that Kale is over-rated-doesn’t have as much flavor as Spinach, Chard, or mustard/turnip greens. I like my greens just barely cooked, so I season them with Mrs. Dash or lemon pepped, steam them for maybe 3 minutes and serve them with real butter.


16 posted on 05/24/2018 12:46:31 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ah, no. I do eat a lot of vegetables, though.


17 posted on 05/24/2018 12:48:30 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Texan5

I’ve never heard of “customized Kale”

Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby Kale


18 posted on 05/24/2018 1:09:49 PM PDT by Flick Lives (Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation.)
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Actually, that sounds like a good idea-maybe if there were varieties of Kale that were colors other than green, it might look more interesting lying on a plate...


19 posted on 05/24/2018 1:33:17 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Kind’a like a bitter chard, isn’t it?


20 posted on 05/24/2018 1:37:33 PM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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