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sysyphusishappy t1_iwy9zlx wrote
Lol
Filmatic113 t1_iwxbbhm wrote
/s
aced124C t1_iwwhoz3 wrote
Thank god it’s about time we start pushing this I’m tired of relying on the nut job states for food production. Bring on the self sufficiency!
isowater t1_iwxjhek wrote
That's still not going to change though. You need lots of cheap land for mass production
lickedTators t1_iwzd05c wrote
Convert those office buildings in midtown. NYC will be the state's leading producer of kale, inshallah.
aced124C t1_iwxjpoh wrote
Give it some time vertical farming will catch up
penisdr t1_iwyuz4m wrote
Self sufficiency is not really achievable in an urban setting. Hydroponics can definitely increase the yield per square foot but it uses a lot of electricity if done indoors. Also things like cereal grains that require a ton of space can’t really be grown in a hydroponic system.
Hydroponics is good for growing herbs and with grow lights can grow microtomatoes and leafy greens but there’s a lot of limitations to it
LifeguardOdd3355 t1_iwv3sdk wrote
Nice.
_Maxolotl t1_iwxlpzo wrote
Urban farming is education and recreation, not realistic food production of any meaningful scale.
It'd be better PR to just call it what it actually is. Education and gardening are nice, and good.
BSing us and telling us we're gonna stop needing to buy food from the midwest and great planes... literally the most productive agricultural region on Earth, is just gonna make people snark. Stop it.
BeMoreChill t1_iwyud7s wrote
“New York Power Authority Joins Harlem Grown and EPRI in Collaborative Demonstration to Educate Local Youth about Urban Farming, Sustainability and Nutrition”
The first sentence on the link literally states it’s for educational purposes
thisisntmineIfoundit t1_iwwliok wrote
Why contain this to Harlem I have space and wanna try.
Deluxe78 t1_iwwedst wrote
It builds on New York's unprecedented investments to ramp-up clean energy including over $35 billion in 120 large-scale renewable and transmission projects across the state, (thank god almost 1/6 the state budget when tax payers are fleeing the state )
nixplix t1_iwx35dx wrote
Please, roll this out to all boroughs.
kapuasuite t1_iwvvynm wrote
Urban farming is very dumb.
Rib-I t1_iww52zi wrote
What makes you think that?
TeamMisha t1_iwwj01x wrote
There's some concepts floating around that in the long term, the earth as a whole may be better off getting food from intensive agriculture that is maximized for efficiency, versus using water and nitrogen on smaller scale or boutique farming setups, or for example in this case using energy to produce offseason food outside their ideal/economized environment. You could argue perhaps the shipping reduction by having it right here is better, or that it's not enough to make up for the losses in yields from more productive farming. All that is just a thought experiment anyways since this is a simple shipping container demonstration/education setup basically, so I don't have any particular problem with it.
here_walks_the_yeti t1_iwx7diw wrote
Interesting. Do they consider that it’s also usually vertical, not a plot of land?
kapuasuite t1_iwyzt6i wrote
As an educational thing it's fine, but there's no shortage of arable land in this country that we need to produce food within cities themselves, and urban agriculture is, for now, far less of a priority than jobs, housing, healthcare, or any number of other initiatives. The money and time/energy spent on this could be far better used doing something else.
chug84 t1_iww55zl wrote
Why?
fall3nmartyr t1_iwvmr1b wrote
This can be real change