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Growing Vertical: Skyscraper Farming
Scientific American | News 29 09 2008 Atypical farm burns vast quantities of fossil fuels to plow fields, sow seeds, reap harvests and truck products many miles to population centers. It spreads heaps of petroleum-based fertilizers, which then run off into streams and watersheds. It also consumes rivers of freshwater and casts pesticides across the countryside. Raising chickens and pigs further insults the earth with unhygienic filth. Why not grow grains, vegetables and fruits right where the expanding crowds of consumers are: in the middle of a city, inside a tall glass building? Poultry and pork could be reared there, too. A vertical farm would drastically reduce the fossil-fuel use and emissions associated with farm machinery and trucking, as well as the spread of fertilizer and its runoff. Crops could grow and be harvested year-round instead of at the end of one season, multiplying annual yield by at least four times. Urban agriculture could also convert municipal wastewater into irrigation water, reducing a city’s refuse problem. And consumers would get the freshest food possible, without pesticides. [More]

Nibbles: Hops, Green Revolution, Leeks, Hemp, Ethical eating, Cuba, Farmers’ markets
Agricultural Biodiversity | Weblog 25 09 2008 Brewers vertically integrate themselves. Like Snoopy Miller.They met, we ate.Roman garden recreated in Wales, complete with leeks.“There are around 45,000 different uses for hemp.”Drawing the ecotarian line.Cuban urban agriculture sprouts anew after Ike.List of farmers markets in the US. Luigi asks: where’s the GoogleMaps mashup?

Nibbles: Hops, Green Revolution, Leeks, Hemp, Ethical eating, Cuba, Farmers’ markets
Agricultural Biodiversity | Weblog 25 09 2008 Brewers vertically integrate themselves.They met, we ate.Roman garden recreated in Wales, complete with leeks.“There are around 45,000 different uses for hemp.”Drawing the ecotarian line.Cuban urban agriculture sprouts anew after Ike.List of farmers markets in the US. Luigi asks: where’s the GoogleMaps mashup?

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