{"id":3009,"date":"2016-02-19T19:55:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T18:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/?p=3009"},"modified":"2016-05-21T21:31:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T19:31:23","slug":"enough-with-the-vertical-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2016\/02\/enough-with-the-vertical-farming.html","title":{"rendered":"Enough with the Vertical Farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/dicksondespommier.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3015\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3015\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/dicksondespommier.jpg\" alt=\"dicksondespommier\" width=\"320\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/dicksondespommier.jpg 485w, https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/dicksondespommier-479x500.jpg 479w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;In their efforts to develop a system that sustainably supplies cities with a large share of their food, theorists and practitioners of vertical farming face insurmountable obstacles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These include the limited range of crop species that can be grown; the tiny proportion of our population\u2019s total food needs that indoor crops could supply; the elite market being targeted; and the irrelevance of indoor agriculture to the lives and diets of people living in economically stressed rural regions where the bulk of our food is grown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Meanwhile, looming largest among the many factors that will restrict the growth of vertical gardening (a term I believe is more apt than \u201cvertical farming,\u201d given the potential scale and the types of food that can be produced) are its extraordinary energy requirements and heavy climate impact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2016\/02\/17\/enough_with_the_vertical_farming_partner\/\" target=\"_blank\">Enough with the vertical farming fantasies: there are still too many unanswered questions about the trendy practice<\/a>. Via <a href=\"https:\/\/urbanverticalproject.wordpress.com\/2016\/02\/18\/i-rip-this-vertical-farm-critic-to-shreds\/#more-1094\" target=\"_blank\">The Urban Vertical Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In their efforts to develop a system that sustainably supplies cities with a large share of their food, theorists and practitioners of vertical farming face insurmountable obstacles.&#8221; &#8220;These include the limited range of crop species that can be grown; the tiny proportion of our population\u2019s total food needs that indoor crops could supply; the elite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[101,315],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3009"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3020,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions\/3020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}