Book summaries – Vertical Farming

  • Start small
    • beginners – 100 square feet versus 400 square feet
      • 5 varieties
    • experienced – 600 square feet
  • 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

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

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