Growing Manhattan’s Food on Manhattan Island
Feb 17th, 2010 Originally Posted by Alex Steffen
I’m personally still not sold on vertical farming (“verticulture”? “upfarming”?), but this is a cool visual exploration of the issue of food production and land use…
Always worth questioning whether relocalization is actually solving a problem, or just seems like it should. I suspect a well-supported regional foodshed of small farms, fish farms and forests is a better answer than greenhouse skyscrapers.
But it doesn’t look as cool.
(Hat tip, Marc Alt)
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(Posted by Alex Steffen in Food and Farming at 5:53 PM)