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by Barry Artiste | October 21, 2008 at 05:27 am
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A concept whose time has come, grow your own food instead of importing it from China and Mexico, who woulda thunk. I mean we have many indoor horticulturalists who growing their own marijuana, you may as well grow your own munchies too.
Seriously though, a wonderful concept if it gets off the ground.
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=9286294f-6657-440a-b7d2-f0f7f98dd768 Metro Vancouver eyes highrise greenhouses Vertical farms and 'urban agriculture' may be the way of the future
Kelly Sinoski, Vancouver Sun Published: Monday, October 20, 2008
METRO VANCOUVER - Rooftop gardens and vertical greenhouses could be a sign of the times in Metro Vancouver as the region wrestles with ways to tackle a global food crisis and the effects of climate change.
And Surrey could lead the trend, with at least one developer considering building a so-called vertical farm in Whalley, which is slated to become the region's second downtown.
Vertical farms could potentially be as high as 30 storeys, with glass walls, solar panels and an irrigation system to grow beds of produce inside.
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at 05:35 on October 21st, 2008
Barry Artiste, great concept! Thanks for this story!
at 05:44 on October 21st, 2008
You're welcome RHonda and thanks for stopping by.
at 06:00 on October 21st, 2008
You are very welcome, Barry!
at 06:30 on October 21st, 2008
Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff. This is an awesome idea.
at 06:57 on October 21st, 2008
Thanks Z, certainly would be a great way to get fresh veggies, lets just hope they don't get carried away and raise Beef Cattle in highrises, i don't mind pigeon crap falling on my SUV, but Cow patties is another thing!
at 07:33 on October 21st, 2008
Anyone interested in this should check out verticalfarm.com
Very cool concepts.
Personally I think someone should put together a plan to convert some Large Empty "box stores" to hydroponics.
at 07:56 on October 21st, 2008
Barry Artiste, like you said, a good concept if they can get it going.
at 08:12 on October 21st, 2008
very exciting although Columbia University professor Dickson Despommier, who is credited as being the "brainchild" of vertical farming, is not the first to propose such a model. check out this vertical pig farm from MVRDV:
http://www.mvrdv.nl/_v2/projects/181_pigcity/index.html
at 08:47 on October 21st, 2008
Barry Artiste, I just heard a piece about this project on CBC radio this morning -- what a great idea! I'm sure it will take some time to become fully sustainable, but it will definitely be a part of the future of urban farming. Good stuff!
at 09:00 on October 21st, 2008
Brings to mind the Chinese idea of putting farms in orbit, proposed about 15 years ago.
at 12:20 on October 21st, 2008
Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Neat! I hope it works out!
at 15:58 on October 21st, 2008
Thanks everyone for your comments and flag, perhaps it is a thing to see in the future as arable land is being gobbled up for housing, as per cost per square foot for a field, well in BC it is like half a million dollars a 1/4 acre to a developer, lets hope a rooftop garden will grow shallow root vegetables, as we all know the horrors of leaky condos where developers put deep root trees on top of highrises with disasterous results. Chinese putting farms in orbit would make produce so friggin expensive to harvest, one wonders what they are smoking, as for pigs well all that oinking would keep me up at night if I lived in a highrise, not to mention the smell, but then if you have a penchant for ribs and have a balcony BBQ, perhaps that would be a great idea. MMMMMMM Bacony goodness ! Spider Pig, Spider Pig, does anything a Spider pig can,,,,,,,,mmmmmm canned pig! Drooooollllll !
at 04:56 on November 28th, 2008
Good Post Barry, sorry I missed it earlier.