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Indoor agriculture boosts yields by mixing crops. Polydome is a revolutionary approach to greenhouse agriculture that offers the possibility of commercial scale, net-zero-impact food production. The Polydome system strategically interweaves a wide variety of crops and animals, taking advantage of every inch of the greenhouse while eliminating the need for synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. [...] A wide variety of organic produce is grown by Brooklyn Grange on a rooftop in Brooklyn, It’s nearly an acre in size. Inhabitat has the details. This is positively inspiring. What other abandoned and unused space in cities can we find useful new purposes for? The video features several urban gardening projects in NYC. [...] Triple Pundit The Urban Farming Guys are a group of self-proclaimed “revolutionaries” made up of 20 families who decided to move from suburbia to the inner-city of Kansas City, MO to start a community urban farm and sustainable living experiment. The families all bought houses within a five block radius of one another, [...] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7ptPuYtmbU Treehugger has lots more on urban farming in Detroit, which both reclaims abandoned land and helps bring back the city while providing food in a time of high unemployment and rising food prices. The Economist remains unconvinced that vertical farming is viable, given the cost of artificial indoor light. Indoor growing works superbly as long as there is just one floor because light can come in through the roof. But artificial light is essential when there is more than one floor. However, one storey greenhouses could work [...] Hantz Farms plans to farm up to 5,000 acres in Detroit. Others are doing the same on a smaller scale too. Abandoned factories could be used for hydroponic growing “People look at these abandoned houses and think, ‘No one could live there. Let’s tear it down,’ ” said Score, a former business development consultant for [...] |  | ||||
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