And while we fully support the move back to localized sustainable agriculture where simplicity and reliance on natural systems, there is no doubt that green tech will eventually extend to systems
like vertical farming and efficient water purification.
Not exact matches
Other companies,
like Michigan - based Green Spirit
Farms and California - based Urban Produce, also sell to consumers using
vertical farming methods, though The New Yorker reported in January that AeroFarms had twice the funding of any other indoor
farming company — even before its recent $ 34 million round.
Entrepreneurs will be trained to grow hydroponic, non-GMO food year - round and sell it locally, assisted by technologies
like Freight
Farms — which makes tools for fresh food production — and ZipGrow — which facilitates
vertical farming.
Roshe Wong, business development manager at Sky Greens, told us about how they have overcome the challenges in the smart
farming opportunity space and on what the future of urban
vertical farming looks
like to him.
Cox says he would
like to see more community - supported agriculture and that would be a better alternative to
vertical farming.
«If you Google
vertical farming, you see artist renderings of superstructures that look
like they are 200 years in the future.
Large - scale
vertical farms,
like the «Type O2» design seen here, are still only theoretical, but certain cities have expressed a serious interest in making them a reality.
Perhaps, a hydroponic
vertical rice and cruciferous vegetable
farm (not one using fish
like the
Vertical Rice Paddy / Fish Nursery) could solve the arsenic problem.
I would however suggest that there is a need for a model for people to live within a close social structure without becoming detached from nature in which the land on which we live is involved with supporting us through what might be called urban agriculture,
vertical farming and the affiliated processing of clean water, natural dynamic energy generation
like wind, solar and water, and cheap / easy / affordable transit all tied - up with great education and health care.