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With office usage hovering near 50 percent of pre-pandemic levels, cities are putting the underutilized space to new use growing food
With office usage hovering near 50 percent of pre-pandemic levels, cities are putting the underutilized space to new use growing food
Unless your country has collapsed economically, having abandoned office buildings is a signifier that the city is still relatively integrated into a greater economy. At that point, it will be cheaper to buy grain from somewhere else than to grow it in a building.
Most vertical farms are designed for fruit and vegetable growth because the price of that produce justifies the expense of growing indoors.
Also, the problem with a lot of food deserts isn’t lack of access to any calories, but healthy and fresh food.
no, no it’s not, it’s historically a signifier of an economic downturn. I have no idea where your mind is here.
I think you might not get what is happening and what Im talking about. They’re not growing fruit, and they’re only growing one kind of vegetable: leaves. Im not exaggerating when I say they’re growing things with single digit calories. Im all for them growing fruit, and substantial vegetables, all full of micronutrients but also healthy calories and proteins and complex carbs. They dont grow these things because these vertical farms are always just a tech fad, not actually good at growing anything but the least demanding of plants, the stuff that basically grows from nothing but the nutrients inherent to the seeds themselves, microgreens and young lettuces. I say fad but it keeps popping up and failing as tech startups pitch it to new investors, for short lived projects that dont make it to market.
Fast growing leaves probably have the best economic case going for them; relatively high value and with a high travel cost.
I didn’t say that vertical farms are a great idea, just that they shouldn’t be used to grow carbs. Carbs are a low cost to grow and a low cost to ship. You wouldn’t use vertical farms for general food security because there are far better options.