Vertical Farming and Urban Agriculture conference 2014
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- Опубликовано: 28 окт 2014
- In September 2014 the Centre for Urban Agriculture held an international conference on Vertical Farming and Urban Agriculture.
Watch this video to hear from experts within the field, including:
Dickson Despommier - author of ‘Vertical Farming’ and Emeritus professor of microbiology and public health at Columbia University.
Mark Gillott - Co-Director of the Institute of Sustainable Energy Technology at The University of Nottingham.
Erik Murchie - Associate professor of Crop Science at The University of Notitngham.
Ian Collier and Stephen Fry from HydroGarden.
For more information about the Centre for Urban Agriculture and their upcoming events visit:
www.nottingham.ac.uk/urbanagri...
Roger - (couldn't reply directly to your comment below for some reason) Apparently the waste vegetables can be put in to feed the fish. In that fish eco-system in the video you can also attach a wormery, these worms could then feed the fish. There are probably multiple other applications available, feel free to contact HydroGarden with any questions. trade.hydrogarden.com/contact-us.asp
It's basically an indoor ecosystem, well almost a complete ecosystem, the fish need food. I've thought about this since I was a kid lol
We need to know some details about the consumables, Electricity, Water, Nutrients, Seeds etc and how do you compare the cost and volume in comparison to the conventional farming
Abrar Sheikh who don't need pesticide and profit can be based on the area like in the middle of the city or desserts
Conventional farming destroys the genetic code of the plant grown and the animal eating it. Fortunately the cost of natural farming includes vertical is 1/10 the cost. Most of the information in this video is remedial from the 1970,s. No reference to cost, nutrient density, variety of produce, social and environmental inclusion into local agriculture.
Such system can work on organic producing or producers use mineral fertilizers generarly ?
Where will the Vertical Farming Conference be held in 2015. As an interested party, I would like to attend if I can arrange it.
There are so many of our planet's ills that can be lessened by concept like this.
Example: Instead of sending 100s of millions in foreign aid to a desolate place like Darfur where people must migrate to stay ahead of drought, disease, and violence, plant a vertical farm there.
People will locate to the source of the food where health care, education, and stable government can be distributed to those who most need it.
When I got to the end of the video, I saw the answer to my question (upcoming events).
The Centre for Urban Agriculture has said that they're planning a conference for 2016 in Ningbo, China. It will probably be announced a couple of months prior to the event on their website. I'd recommend keeping an eye on that as there may also be other events of interest that pop up before then. too. www.nottingham.ac.uk/urbanagriculture/index.aspx
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Thank you for the update.
I am probably considered to be a starry eyed convert the world of vertical farming.
The one thing I spend so much time thinking about is... (Where does the fish get there good from?) I'd love to have an answer to this question.
Roger Gibson One thing I thought about was plant eating fish, IE you give them some of the crop. That or probably just fish food lol
fish eat poop people poop
Another urban legend. The reason that tanks must be cleaned on a regular basis is that no fish eats poop. (Catfish eat food on the bottom of the tank or lake). Snails will eat some but they produce their own waste. )
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For this to work, cities must set ratios of agricultural, residential and office use for developments within the city otherwise the free market would drive the use to whichever use is the most profitable at any given time resulting in a pattern of swings which would drive any business focusing on urban vertical farming out of business.
Whilst I agree that planning our food produce for the future is a good idea, surely implementing these buildings with which to grow crops is going to cost a fortune because the crops will require around the clock care. I'm not against the idea, I just feel it would be wise to plan out how you are going to cover the costs before this actually takes place.
Matthew Thompson it would surely cost less than what farmers would spend in regular agriculture in the end.
Miyu Venus Yamazato pesticides, transport, weather and if want to decrease elect con you could use biomass and re-use water
Matthew Thompson Why does it need round the clock care? They're plants...😂
The care can be automated to a high degree. Watering and fertilizing for example are completely automated through low energy electric motors. Furthermore, there exist several models where solar energy can power these irrigation systems using batteries to store the solar energy which means even less costs. As for the water, study have shown that vertical farming uses less than 10% of the water required in conventional farming. The only big cost here is the infrastructure of the building and the equipment. You could even recycle part of the water.
PS: the method they use to grow the crops is called "hydroponics" and I encourage you to read about it to understand the difference between soil farming and vertical farming. Crops need soil to get nutrients, mainly minerals such as Kalium, Magnesium, etc. In hydroponics you don't have soil instead you use water and add the nutrients directly to the water so that the plant can absorb them through the roots. This means less water consumption because the water is stored in a container and the plant is soaked in it rather than constantly irrigating the plant.
1:23 Hey kitty
Holy crap that’s a lot of plastic...
Let's simplify! Okay, we have green houses stacked with many other green houses. They are more efficient indoors without the weather disturbing the hydroponics. Done!! Genetically modified plants are inevitable with an increase of a demand for food. I question why we are focusing on any talk of (vertical farming), 35 years into the future. Let's say 10 years or maybe even 20. They're handicapping themselves with their lack of forethought for what's close by and tangibly adjustable.
Vic Doom I agree with you! This sort of thing is complicating things. But let's be realistic ... humans like thinking, tinkering, manipulating, engineering ... we like sophistication, especially the more powerful segment of humanity.
I live in Thailand, where the majority of the population will tell you adamantly that they love the Thai king. For several decades he's been pushing his "Sufficiency Economy" yet the main economic thrust and lifestyle trends are hardly consistent with those principles. It's not happening here, and from where I view the world, it seems Thailand is about like the rest of the world.
Geoff Lawton (an awesome permaculture practitioner / teacher) says the best bet we have for change is grassroots. I think the odds are slim, though sure would like to be wrong on this.
no use in africa , sad
@@troysantos With the indisputable and discernible onset of climate change, and the supply chain problems the pandemic exposed, what do you now think of your beliefs either way 6 years on?
Nothing new, all remedial, extremely inefficient for costs and volume. Nice Crayola's of future cities.