Vertical Farming
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Vertical Farming - Greenhouse Farming
A Farm In A Greenhouse ?
Is vertical farming plausable ?
The basics behind indoor farming are nothing new when you consider, for example, tomatoes and such have been nurtured in greenhouses for decades, however to move forward the basics to indoor farming have to progress and utilise modern technologies if they are to benefit the future increases in world population. The idea of a farmscraper in a central urban area may not be that far away, with the intention of being very cheap to build, whilst safe to operate, being very eco friendly and having numerous other advantages such as no crop failures due to weather enabling year round harvests and eliminating other pollutants such as emmissions from farm machinery and transportation, a vast reduction of pesticides and fertilizers perhaps a farm in a greenhouse isn't such a bad concept.....
Vertical Farming Advantages
No crop failures due to weather / climate or pests
Vertical farming uses no fertilizers, herbiscides or pesticides
Hydroponics
Hydroponics is the name given to a method for growing plants without the use of soil, instead using mineral nutrient solutions to promote growth. In the 19th century it was found that plants did not actually need soil for growth and that the soil only acted as a channel for the plants to feed from the mineral nutrients they found in water. The history of hydroponics dates well back, and this is not a new technology with the earliest published work being in 1627 although hydroponics have moved on a long way since then.
For a great UK based website regarding hydroponics please visit hydroponics plant growing
For a more in depth article regarding hydropnics please see the wikipedia article - Hydroponics
Vertical Farming Virtual Tour
Take a virtual look at what vertical farming could look like
Vertical Farming Pictures
Just imagine this !
Just imagine one of these popping up in your city centre, very futuristic looking, but are these the farms of the future ? It is thought that to feed the pending population growth, land bigger than the country of Brazil will be needed if we continue to use existing horizontal farming techniques and with 80% of available land for crop growing already being used the maths just don't add up to continue as we are doing, so the prospect of seeing one of these types of high rise farmscrapers is becoming more plausable day to day.
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Vertical Farming - Is This The Answer ?
What are your thoughts on vertical farming, is this the answer to the pending food shortage the world faces or is this just a pie in the sky notion which will fade out in time. We maybe all need to think about where the food is going to come from as the worlds population booms and maybe you have another suggestion. Feel free to leave your comments and don't worry you don't have to be a registered squidoo member to participate
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Is vertical farming the answer to bigger better food crops ?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byWOW, way to go this will sort the worlds food shortage out !!
deepu says:
It seems to me like a very good idea to address expected food crisis. But I don't understand how mineral nutrient solutions are made? or how nutrients from soil can be extracted into water?
then , won't the continuous use of conveyor belts consume more power than it is required for horizontal farming?
Posted December 09, 2011
Michey says:
Hm! It is a good solution when we don'y have space for horizontal farming. I don't know if the effect is the same.
Posted April 07, 2011
Jacob says:
I came across a company that has put the Vertical Farm to work. Terrasphere Systems (http://terraspheresystems.com/), which is now part of Converted Organics (http://convertedorganics.com/) has developed a Vertical Farm that is now in operation and producing product in Canada. The Terrasphere website is very informative and has a couple of very good videos to explain their process(Watch the ?Two Seeds? video).
Posted February 09, 2011
VincentEllis says:
Will it be cost effective and efficient in terms of crop yield? How would the plants react to the higher altitudes and artifical conditions? But with the right innovation and passion behind it, anything is possible.
Posted November 08, 2010
ajgodinho says:
Well, I'm not too familiar with this concept, but I don't see why not.
Posted October 23, 2010
I've never heard such a riddiculous suggestion, it'll never catch on
kevinw1 says:
High city-center land costs, high failure potential of mechanical and electrical systems required, and high energy use compared to better alternatives make this an unlikely scenario except in a few special cases. The concept pictures look pretty though.
Posted May 21, 2011
spirituality says:
I think this is a great suggestion, but I don't get where the light is coming from... Don't crops need light?
Posted January 18, 2009
More Vertical Farming Advantages
Crop production year round and better yields. One vertical farm acre is, on average equal to around 4-6 horizontal acres depending on crop. For strawberries the ratio is 1:30 !
Hydroponics Books
If you loved Hydrofarm BKHB Hydroponic Basics, 0.2 Pounds, you might also enjoy:
How-To Hydroponics, Fourth Edition by Keith Roberto
How-To Hydroponics, 4th edition, has been completely more...0 points
Learn Hands-On At Your Own Pace
Which plants to grow, how to start from seeds and how to take cuttings to preserve, and propagate your favorite plants. Learn what makes plants grow and how to create the perfect...
Hydroponics for the Home Gardener: An easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide for growing healthy vegetables, herbs and house plants without soil. (Gardening) by Stewart Kenyon
Revised and updated.
Hydroponics for the Home Gardener more...0 points
Revised and updated.
Hydroponics for the Home Gardener is an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to growing organic, healthy vegetable, herbs and house plants without soil.
Clearly illustrated with black and white line drawings, the book covers every aspect of home hydroponic gardening including:
- Building a hydroponic system versus buying a kit
- Plant propagation and indoor pollination
- Outdoor hydroponics, recipes, and much more.
Beginning Hydroponics Revised Ed by Richard E. Nicholls
An updated edition of the classic guide to hydropo more...0 points
Hydroponic Tomatoes: For the Home Gardener by Howard M. Resh
Home-grown tomatoes . . . large, red-ripe, deliciously more...0 points
You don't need previous experience. Your advantages (besides great tomatoes!) include freedom from harmful pesticides, bothersome weeds and insects, plus ease and pleasure in tending the garden. And you can enjoy your tomatoes sooner . . . tomatoes rich in vitamins and minerals and...
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Hydroponics: Soilless Gardening Explained by Les Bridgewood
Plants need nutrients, air, water, and light with more...0 points
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wolfie10
Oct 27, 2011 @ 4:17 am | delete
- very nice lens.
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- It really is a special idea to try. I enjoy the lens and I like your pictures and presentation.
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Mar 7, 2011 @ 6:53 am | delete
- This is a very interesting concept! Never heard of such a thing, but it's definitely intriguing! Thanks for sharing :-)
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- You learn something new every day! This is something that I had never imagined, and now that I've seen it I think it is fantastic! I'm very proud to bless this lens.
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Pogue wrote...
Your lens is great but I disagree philosophically with the idea itself. People need to return to the land. Geoff Lawton planned a food forest in the Dead Sea Valley that created its own humus despite being mismanaged. Sepp Holzer has grown Mediterranean citrus at 4,000 feet in the Austrian Alps by using ponds and raised beds.
The secret to providing food, imo, is no secret. People need to return to the earth and give the earth the water it needs. Creating more buildings is counterproductive to that and, from where I am sitting, is simply the thought of a city dweller who want the benefits of the industrial machine without a care for the earth they are overpopulating.
Posted February 19, 2011
KDimmick wrote...
I'd never heard of this before! Sounds amazing. I've used hydroponics and the grow lights from those work so well! So I can see this working. Blessed by an angel and featured on my angel lens :)
Posted January 03, 2011
deeps wrote
very nice
Posted June 19, 2010
Vertical Farming On The Blogosphere
- Food Project Proposes Matrix-Style Vertical Chicken Farms
- Photo: André Ford Architecture student André Ford has proposed a new system for the mass production of chickens that removes the birds' cerebral cortex so that they don't experience the horrors of being packed together tightly in vertical farms.
- Get New York Alerts
- ... community gardens, vertical walls, and even rooftops -- and generating healthy communities from the rooftops down. It is an effort that seems to echo Wendell Berry's challenge that, "There are too few actual farmers left to reform anything.
- EnviroIngenuity partners with Verti-Gro to promote hydroponic vertical farming ...
- /California Newswire/ ? EnviroIngenuity today announced a partnership with Verti-Gro(R) to represent and promote hydroponic vertical farming systems throughout Southern California. Verti-Gro, Inc. designs and manufactures cost-effective, high density ...
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