Interesting Concept

[wanderingpixie]

Okay... I'm sure people have thought of this or seen it before, but it's the first time I've actually thought about it at all, and it looks kind of interesting.

Vertical Farming... a move to Urban-environment farming (Link found in some comments on a post by mrgrumpybearI'm curious if folks out in LJ-land can tell me why this _isn't_ as good an idea as it

Comments

[thecommanderdia]

This is waaaaaaaaay cool. It would be awesome to see large scale projects actually in effect.

[giselle0002]

The US has the cheapest food supply in the world . . . we spend about 10 percent of our income on food. Finland and France are at 16 and 18 percent . . . everyone else is 20 percent or higher . . . India is 51 percent

[thecommanderdia]

It's still cool. *pout*

[giselle0002]

O, so totally cool, yes. It's important to think outside the box and is incredibly important. I love to see people actually ~thinking~ about their food supply chain.

I'm a farm girl and wrote about agribusiness for a newspaper and a business pub for several years. WanderingPixie asked for the downside and I wanted to highlight what is missing from the Utopian article's approach. It is completely a cool idea. It looks like it could be the future of the green grocer in 100 years . . . production on the top15 floors and the farmers market on the first . . . or something . . . =o) Access to nutritious fresh food is the ultimate most important fact.

[hildakrista]

giselle0002 mentioned Del Monte. I work for Del Monte, and I know a tad (not that much, but still) about commercial farming. She's right. The cost for this kind of farming is prohibitive on a large-scale basis in America. People pay only about $1 to $2 for a can of fruits or vegetables. We just wouldn't be able to sell more expensive food to the teeming Idol-watching, Wal-Mart shopping masses. And there is no incentive for Del Monte or other fruits/veggie company to do it. There's really quite a LOT of land here in the good ol' USA. Our prices are rising because of rising steel prices and rising transportation costs, not the actual food production costs, for the most part (ask me sometime about corn

[c_star]

i had this idea way back in 1992. damn i should have trade marked it.