The Farm Of The Future Might Be In Compton. Inside A Warehouse. And Run Partly By Robots

LAist ^ | OCTOBER 6, 2020 | STEFAN A. SLATER

[gundog]

Growing kale in Compton might work. If the local community garden is any measure, people won’t steal kale.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

It is a problem I would like to solve for my local community. I’m still thinking on it, taking notes, reading, etc.

I’ll figure it out! :)

For a small pantry, our Food Pantry gets SO much food, it’s ridiculous. We also have a mobile van that will deliver weekly food boxes to elderly that can’t get out, and was used a LOT when Covid first started, (Our County has only had 130 cases, no deaths and no hospitalizations!)

A lot of times, they have a ‘FREE’ shelf set up inside the adjacent Thrift Store with bread, canned goods, bags of rice and beans, soups, baby needs, etc. because there’s an over-abundance of food that week.

This is America. No one should be hungry. No one. :)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

LOL!

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

gundog :" Growing kale in Compton might work.
If the local community garden is any measure, people won’t steal kale."

Too funny,.. but true !

[GOPJ]

Plenty's long-term goals go beyond tasty salad greens. It wants to combat food apartheid by bringing healthy, locally-grown crops to communities that lack access to nutritious produce.

Are they talking about the same 'communities' that have figured out a way to put a liquor store on every corner?

[GOPJ]

Cool! Something new to burn down when they have a peaceful protest!

I'm starting to get the feeling there's not much respect for 'the press' anymore...

[Fiji Hill]

I’ve been reading a compilation of “California writing” dating back to the mission days. Southern California was a completely different — and fascinating — place in the early and middle 1900s. Agriculture, oil drilling, the constant search for water, the development of talkies, Aimee Semple McPherson and her Angelus Temple . . .

I remember that era. When I was born, there was an alfalfa field across the street from my home in Whittier. It's now a park. Oil drilling was a major industry in our area as was dairy farming. In Second Grade, we had to know one breed of dairy cow from another, and we took a field trip to a local dairy farm and to a creamery, both of which are long gone.

The dairy farms vanished after the sixties. Dairy farms attract swarms of flies, which, in turn, attract swarms of lawsuits against the farmers from residents of housing tracts springing up near the farms. There is still some oil drilling, but not nearly as much as there was back in the mid-20th eentury.

[LibWhacker]

Is this a case of more mad scientists de-flavoring our food? If science keeps this up, in a hundred years everything will taste the same: like cardboard.

[DuncanWaring]

Take the children and yourself
And hide out in the cellar
By now the fighting will be close at hand
Don’t believe the church and state
And everything they tell you
Believe in me, I’m with the high command

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[Track9]

The Israelis did something like this years ago, and the palis burnt it all down.

[GOPJ]

It’s a no-weeds, no-flooding, no drought, no-pesticides solution to fresh veggies.

If it does well elites will buy a small version to have fresh ‘no work’ herbs for their salads at $150 bucks a pound.

[GOPJ]

Swear allegiance to the flag
Whatever flag they offer
Never hint at what you really feel
Teach the children quietly
For some day sons and daughters
Will rise up and fight while we stood still

[Cloverfarm]

“Urban farming” is another word for gardening.

[Vermont Lt]

I grow herbs in a tent in my basement. All winter I have fresh basil, green onions, and other herbs. Freshly picked. It’s great.

Why not grow them in the mall?

[Salamander]

Now there’s a flashback.

;)

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Hahahaha!!