Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Vertical farming in the big Apple


Graphics courtesy of Chris Jacobs, Rolf Mohr, and Dean Fowler of machinefilms.com and unitedfuture.com
Is this how farms will look in the future?

Jeremy Cook
BBC News , New York


Professor Despommier lists many advantages of this revolutionary kind of agriculture. They include:

  • Year round crop production in a controlled environment

  • All produce would be organic as there would be no exposure to wild parasites and bugs

  • Elimination of environmentally damaging agricultural runoff

  • Food being produced locally to where it is consumed

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