Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Vertical farming in the big Apple?

and unlikely prospect? Maybe but its nice to see someone using their imagination for something that would benefit New York instead of...well. you know who....

By Jeremy Cooke
BBC News, New York

Graphics courtesy of Chris Jacobs, Rolf Mohr, and Dean Fowler of machinefilms.com and unitedfuture.com
Is this how farms will look in the future?

Downtown Manhattan is hardly a place you would associate with agriculture. Rather, with its countless restaurants, cafes, shops and supermarkets this is a place of consumption.

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