Important urban food production research is going on in the Netherlands and elsewhere around the world.
Meanwhile in New York City, we are dumping dirt in a park to lead school kids down a garden path to nowhere.
Instead of science and technology we have leaders like our parks commissioner and others who preach a curriculum of "get your hands dirty" as if this was some holy endeavor.
New York has the means to be a leader in urban food production. Instead, we have a highly vocal but relatively small mob of farmer wannabees trying to make the Big Apple into a fantasy farm.
This is simply the wrong place and the wrong time.
via www.npr.org
DEN BOSCH, Netherlands April 11, 2011, 09:05 am ETFarming is moving indoors, where the sun never shines, where rainfall is irrelevant and where the climate is always right.
The perfect crop field could be inside a windowless building with meticulously controlled light, temperature, humidity, air quality and nutrition. It could be in a New York high-rise, a Siberian bunker, or a sprawling complex in the Saudi desert.
Advocates say this, or something like it, may be an answer to the world's food problems.
"In order to keep a planet that's worth living on, we have to change our methods," says Gertjan Meeuws, of PlantLab, a private research company.
The world already is having trouble feeding itself. Half the people on Earth live in cities, and nearly half of those — about 3 billion — are hungry or malnourished. Food prices, currently soaring, are buffeted by droughts, floods and the cost of energy required to plant, fertilize, harvest and transport it. Read more...
And on consumer level wel'll have leds available too... very soon. At ZENGROW - tabletop garden :)
Posted by: Bastiaan | May 16, 2011 at 02:52 PM