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Start small
beginners - 100 square feet versus 400 square feet
5 varieties
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experienced - 600 square feet
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Plan by sketching layout
- Vegetation type
Leafy green perform - ok under shade - Radishes - require little soil - herbs - shallow root system
- Methods
Companion planting - Succession planting - Hydroponics - Aeroponics - Vertical garden tower - Verticon - 4 feet
- Irrigation
drip irrigation - Sprinkler
- Soil
sufficiently aerated - properly drained - adequate moisture - light fluffy composition
- Nutrients
nitrogen - potassium - magnesium - phosphorus - calcium
- Influencers
Patrick Blanc
- Mushrooms
Cheap source of iron - lowers risk of cancer, diabetes and heart diseases
- Future
midsize city annually produces gigaton of solid material and billions of gallons of waste water - In nature there is no waste - future out how to setup a system with zero waste - Participating countries
China, - Germany - Netherlands, - Belgium - Iceland - New Zealand - Australia - Dubai - Abu Dhabi - Japan
- Reduce overall carbon foot print
- UN prediction sever water shortage
400 million today - 4 billion by 2050
- Google might work on project
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External references
- *Mushrooms: How to grow them; A practical treatise on Mushroom culture for profit and pleasure*, William Falconer
- *Collapse*, Jare Diamond
- *The vertical farm, feeding the world in the 21st century*, Dr Dickson Despommier