Posted on 08/12/2016 3:05:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It's indoors. Save yourself $1500 by looking across the room at it in real time. If the leaves are drooping, water it.
I think the motion detector and surveillance set-up is so you can get out of dodge when the cops raid your grow.
Seriously though, agricultural technology is rapidly changing in ways that will make growing crops much easier in the future. This is why I laugh at those who say we are at peak food and the world cannot support more population. With cheap energy our food supply is endless.
Wow, those are healthy plants!
Vertical farming is something I’ve been interested in. Fresh produce and meat can be grown in skyscraper-like farms - all organically or hydroponically year-round. No worries about the weather. This would work wonders in urban areas, and would resolve the whining from Moochelle about “food deserts.”
That was my first thought when I saw the phrase “Indoor Farming”. With many, it’s become a polite euphemism for pot growing.
Yep - food will be more plentiful in the future and the costs of these systems is dropping drastically. You can grow an amazing amount of food in a small space and it is not subject to the whims of nature, disease, or pests. Just cheap electricity and some of the systems recycle much of the water.
Hey welcome back.
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“Helping folks grow more local vegetables”
They must be smoking radishes up in Canada.
If I was a young fella that is the business I would get into, find some old warehouse an hour or two outside of New York and start growing tomatoes and lettuce, you could clean up with fresh produce in the winter, few employees lots of robotics and watering and lights but not too many people
The key to profit margin in that business would be cheap electricity and water with low property costs and taxes. Would be far more profitable growing it in rural county near the city and trucking it in. Call yourself organic and locally grown and reap profits!
“Indoor Farming” has been euphemism for pot growing, but lessons learned by pot growers is combining with new technologies (LEDs and robotics) to offer new options for agriculture.
Underground, Undersea or in Outer Space; people will be able to grow food with little to no labor. Suburbanites could produce most of their food needs.
There are already niches where it makes money. Folks are already doing some of this for some specialty crops, like herbs and salad greens for city restaurants being raised in in racks, inside old factories downtown. It can provide a significant improvement in quality and safety.
And as marijuana legalization widens, more individuals will want turnkey approaches to growing high quality, and commercial growers will be interested in the protection from theft that growing indoors offers.
Over the course of the next generation, agriculture will be largely automated/roboticized.
How about automated greenhouse options, as roofs for new buildings?
I would like to grow my own tobacco. No more government taxes and no Dr. Jekyll chemical additives.
This is where you want to use solar and wind power for the electric as the power company notice a place using gigawatts of more power then their neighbors.
I have constructed three lettuce towers that I have outside right now. the design will work indoors. It is working great even with this heat wave of 95+ this week
You’ll need Huey,d ewey, and Louie from Silent running
What is your method?
Tell us more. I had towers for my squash but they died in the heat. I think elevating the vines off the ground exposed them to too much dry air and relentless sun.
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