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Vertical farms have appeared in the news as concepts over the last couple years. Now, one is to be built:
AeroFarms, an urban agricultural company, has big plans to turn a defunct steel mill into a 70,000 square foot vertical farm in Newark, New Jersey. The facility is projected to cost $39 million USD and will provide greens and other produce to local New York and New Jersey communities. According to the builders, it will be the largest indoor vertical farm in the world.
Vertical farms, like other types of urban farming, aim to provide fresh produce to city dwellers. They cut down on the energy demands of shipping food from the countryside to city markets, while at the same time offering an alternative to clearing ever more wilderness in the name of growing food. Vertical farms also have the potential to produce food year-round and can be more efficient in their use of water and fertilizer.
It will be interesting to see how they manage electricity costs. Can any Soylentils who've worked with hydroponics share their experiences?
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Friday August 07 2015, @11:09PM
This is only tangentially related, but one of the most interesting series we've watched recently here is A&E's Life After People, which in several shows depicts vacant skyscrapers (after the total loss of humanity) possibly developing into fantastic towering ecosystems complete with new adaptations on the part of flora and fauna.
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