Vertical Farming is one of fastest-growing sectors in ag-business. The farming operations can spin-up just about anywhere, including inside urban areas.
— Farmers growing food for the rest of population is one of the necessary bedrocks for any civilization. We can’t get things done unless we eat. The United States has a population of 330,000,000 people feed by food imports and about two million U.S. farms. Approximately 20,000,000 Americans and immigrants, about 10% of the workforce, work in jobs related to the agricultural and food sectors.
As the U.S. and world population continues to climb shifting climate conditions and rising seas are making feeding all of us more challenging. It is estimated that the world population will reach nearly 10 billion people by 2050. To feed that many more people will require world farmers to increase yields by almost 70% over the next 30 years. There isn’t the farmland to spread out horizontally to meet that challenge.
I visited Green Eden Technology in Cleburne to see where the science is right now. If you are heading south on the Chisholm Trail Parkway, just north of town at the Sparks Road exit look to your right. Across the street from the massive Walmart Warehouse sits a series of greenhouses, they are easy to spot in the early evening in their florescent glow from the grow lights. Aaron Fields is the Director of Horticulture; he took us on a tour of the facility.
After our tour we were presented some of the fresh greens grown in the warehouse. Since they had just been picked, the lettuce stayed deep green and crisp in my refrigerator a full week later with zero degradation. The lettuce is extremely flavorful; the plants energy goes to its leaf and not an extensive root structure to anchor into itself if it had been grown in dirt.
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