You will read how they will be growing in layers on some of the floors, these 2 photos below, will give you an idea of growing in layers.
IMG_1621, originally uploaded by acfsouthbend.
Hydroponic strawberry farm 1, originally uploaded by Laura Bell.
These photo’s are not of the Sky Farm, they are a visual for growing in layers, to see how much more can be grown in less space.
I am Very Stoked about this Sky Farming / Vertical Farming !
Exciting what we are bringing into the World to be more Sustainable, more Green.
Have been unable to get photo’s for this page, but you will find several at the links provided.
New York – News & Feature’s – Skyfarming – From the page:
A Columbia professor believes that converting skyscrapers into crop farms could help reduce global warming and make New York cleaner. It’s a vision straight out of Futurama—but here’s how it might work
Urban farming has always been a slightly quixotic endeavor. From the small animal farm that was perched on the roof of the Upper West Side’s Ansonia apartment building in the early 1900s (fresh eggs delivered by bellhop!) to community gardens threatened by real-estate development, the dream of preserving a little of the country in the city is a utopian one. But nobody has ever dreamed as big as Dr. Dickson Despommier, a professor of environmental sciences and microbiology at Columbia University, who believes that “vertical farm” skyscrapers could help fight global warming.
Imagine a cluster of 30-story towers on Governors Island or in Hudson Yards producing fruit, vegetables, and grains while also generating clean energy and purifying wastewater. Roughly 150 such buildings, Despommier estimates, could feed the entire city of New York for a year. Using current green building systems, a vertical farm could be self-sustaining and even produce a net output of clean water and energy.
Further down the page, I like this !!!******
Depending on the crops being grown, a single vertical farm could allow thousands of farmland acres to be permanently reforested. For the moment, these calculations remain highly speculative, but a real-life example offers a clue: After a strawberry farm in Florida was wiped out by Hurricane Andrew, the owners built a Hydroponic Farm. By growing strawberries indoors and stacking layers on top of each other, they now produce on one acre of land what used to require 30 acres.
Read the whole article on, Skyfarming here.
More here at PopSci.com.
Also, see what Las Vegas is doing !!!******
Las Vegas the tourist mecca of the World is set to begin development of the World’s first vertical farm. The $200 million dollar project is designed to be a functional and profitable working farm growing enough food to feed 72,000 people for a year and provide another tourist attraction to the city that does everything in a larger than life way.
Las Vegas to Build World’s First 30 Story Vertical Farm
Something I’d like to see be a part of this is, having Peaceful Music playing for the plants and trees. Maybe you remember a book call, “The Secret Live of Plants”. My Dad is reading a book on water now, “The Hidden Messages in Water”, by Masaru Emoto, where he reports about the positive effects peaceful music has on water too.
Side note…If you stir your water at least 21 times before you drink it, it will assimilate into your system much easier and faster.
Many Blessing’s My Friend’s !!!******
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7 responses so far ↓
1 Lorraine Cohen // May 30, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Well, this concept was certainly news to me and I love the idea. Many thanks for the visuals and the hopefulness stirring when I see things like this happening in the world.
Keep posting this kind of info!!!!
Optimistically,
Lorraine
http://www.powerfull-living.biz/blog
2 Darlene Norris // May 31, 2008 at 7:23 am
My dad grew tomatoes on the rooftop when he lived in NYC in the 1940′s. This is a great idea. Instead of having buildings set aside for this, maybe one or two floors in a high-rise could be devoted to raising food for the people who live in that building. This area could be a park-like setting, and maybe the residents could putter around in the garden if they wanted. Locally grown organic produce could be available only a few steps away!
3 Brennan Kingsland // May 31, 2008 at 9:45 am
This could be the answer to eliminating world hunger!
As a gardener, I’ve known about layering for years. In the outdoors it’s a marvelous way to increase yield per foot and it is a great way to balance soil nutrient usage and return.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to see these towers EVERYWHERE?
Thanks for sharing,
Brennan
4 Mark McCullagh // May 31, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Wow, this is really cool! We’ve been living and working in a “layered” environment for centuries (even ancient Rome had 4 storey tenements) so why not farming?
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