Monday, 11 July 2005 |
 It's Blade Runner meets Green Acres, and it looks like it may be the
future of farming. Introducing the Vertical Farm Project. With statistics showing that by the year 2050, 80% of the world's population
will be urban dwellers and the combined impact of environmental damage
due to horizontal farming, urban farming makes perfect sense.
The idea is not eniterly new. Hothouses have been growing tomatoes this way for years and the theory
behind the urban farm project is based on that success. High rise
buildings housing agriculture and farming, mean that less of the earths
horizontal space is used leaving less destructive impact of ecology,
plus an all year round growing crop.
Designed by internationally
celebrated architect Andrew Kranis, the Urban farm Buildings are a
science in themselves. For more information go to Vertical Farm via boing boing
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CITY FARMING 
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