What do you think? This is what a friend says about it... **There are so many advantages to indoor growing. 1) Pests are excluded by design. Birds cant leave seeds in droppings. Insect pests cant get in. Less (or no) herbicide and pesticide required. However theres potential for fungal and bacterial infections to persist so some increase in fungicide and antibiotics might be necessitated. 2) All the water otherwise lost to transpiration, evaporation and runoff can be recaptured. 3) We can expand our agricultural footprint up, instead of out, and maybe in time return some cultivated land to wilderness. 4) We can grow year-round in climates that only support a single crop now. Theres no strict need for special lights to get most of these benefits, but the lights really help concentrate the productivity in various ways.** Theres an essay about the idea from the bigger proponent here: verticalfarm/the-vertical-essay/ Or the video on his frontpage if you dont want to read. verticalfarm/video/
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 20:15:57 +0000
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