Interview with The Father of Vertical Farming
According to the Vertical Farm Project, by the year 2050 the earth’s human population will have increased by around 3 billion, and 80% will reside in urban centers. The project estimates 109 hectares of new land (about 20% more land than the area of Brazil) will be needed to grow enough food to feed them, if traditional farming practices continue...
Homo Neutralis: A Sustainable Urban Species
Recent years have seen a flurry of speculation as to the form and structure of a city able to sustainably support our future needs. But is such speculation just wasted, wishful thinking? Emerging research in the fields of human evolution suggest that a new chicken and egg debate is forming in relation to our urban...
The Virtues of Vertical Farming
“Vertical farming is a proposed agricultural technique involving large-scale agriculture in urban high-rises or “farmscrapers”. Using recycled resources and greenhouse methods such as hydroponics, these buildings would produce fruit, vegetables, edible mushrooms and algae year-round…” [Source] A few weeks ago at a local supermarket I picked up a beautifully bright red-orange tomato and marveled at...
Can You Pass The Ants, Please?
The production, meat conversion, nutritional and ecologically and spatially friendly harvesting advantages of edible insects means that they will take precedent over other foodstuffs in years to come...
