Vertical farms grow veggies on site at restaurants and grocery stores

Re:Vertical farms grow veggies on site at restaurants and gr... by ramphastidae on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @04:24PM (#25852176)

It’s about practicality, not trendiness. I don’t have a backyard or basement. Even if I did have a backyard, the climate is such that sunlight or predictable weather is not guaranteed. Even if it was, there is no guarantee of safety from wild animals, pests, and soil contamination. The list goes on ...

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Re:Vertical farms grow veggies on site at restaurants and gr... by Jkvngt on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @06:57PM (#25853527)

I think you're going out of your way to portray keeping a garden as some kind of herculean effort when in reality it's not very difficult and it can be done most anywhere except in the densest cores of mega cities.

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Re:Vertical farms grow veggies on site at restaurants and gr... by SECProto on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @09:02PM (#25854441)

I think you've had much more luck from your gardens than I've had from mine...

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Re:Vertical farms grow veggies on site at restaurants and gr... by jariel on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @04:45PM (#25852410)

'Practical' would to buy it from a 'farmer'.

The entire premise of this is 'hipster tech' - or - a very long term vision and investment towards making something like actually practical at some scale, which may or may not ever happen.

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Re:Vertical farms grow veggies on site at restaurants and gr... by bsder on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @05:59PM (#25853069)

> 'Practical' would to buy it from a 'farmer'.

And if the nearest one is 400 miles away? Then my produce is STILL optimized for transport and storage over taste and freshness.

> The entire premise of this is 'hipster tech'

I agree. It annoys me when they tout this as "volume" or "scale". However, you can't get VC funding unless you promise that so that's the price of your marketing. Shrug.

Nevertheless, I do hope one of these catches on somehow. Several of my favorite restaurants had their own gardens. However, they are limited by the weather and season to certain crops.

If someone can slap a steel container down and use these technologies to grow out of area/out of season vegetables and fruits I'm all for it. It would also have the side benefit of breaking up some of the gigantic monocultures we currently have in agriculture.

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