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- Farming the Atmosphere for Water
[Clouds in the Mojave Desert]
Beyond the astonishing bird’s nest featured at the recent Beijing Olympics was perhaps a more spectacular accomplishment: large-scaled cloud seeding. Chinese film and Olympic opening ceremony director Zhang Yimou cited rain as the largest threat to the opening ceremonies. To ensure a rain-free performance, 1104 rocket’s filled with silver [...]
- The Toxicities of Fungiculture
[Mushroom Farm in Taichung, Taiwan.]
Three employees of Farmers Fresh Mushrooms in Lagley, British Columbia died last week as a rush of compost fumes flooded a pump house at the mushroom farm. Fungiculture is centered around no light and robust soil - robust as in manure-laden robust. Thus the composting and thus the toxicity.
[Fresh manure bags [...]
- Aquacultural Hubs
[Cabling network system of the Kona Blue aquaculture Sea Station.]
Resembling something out of the portfolios of Frei Otto or Cedric Price, the Kona Blue Sea Stations off the coast of Hawaii are open sea offshore 3,000-cubic-meter submersible fish pens.
Kona Blue’s premiere achievement is Kona Kampachi®, a premium sushi-grade Hawaiian yellowtail species.
Currently, four open ocean aquaculture [...]
- Farming the Desert
[In Toshka farm,near Egypts border with Sudan, the Egyptian goverment hopes to grow 2 million acres of wheat, alongside fruits such as the grape fields as above.]
As recently chronicled in the NY Times, Global food shortages have placed the Middle East and North Africa in a dilemma: grow more crops to feed expanding population or [...]
- Fertilizer Factor
[Potash mine for Mosaic in Esterhazy, Saskatchewan.]
It seems only logical, with the increased frenzy of food shortage, biofuels, and other increased agriculture interests, that there would be a significant increased interest in fertilizer. Saskatchewan’s potash production has emerged as the global leader of potash exports. PotashCorp is the leading producer in the region, which has [...]
- Catfish, Waffles, Cods, and Kiwis
[a drained pond in catfish country Mississippi]
Cod caught off Norway is shipped to China to be turned into filets, then shipped back to Norway for sale. Last year, Britain both imported 14,000 tonnes of waffles, and exported 15,000 tonnes. In the United States, FreshDirect proclaims kiwi season has expanded to “All year!” now that Italy [...]
- Vert.Farms
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Vertical Farms get coverage in the New York Times science section, curiously enough. Not in the Architecture section, nor in the Food section. Apparently when architecture meets food (agriculture) it becomes science. Dickson Despommier, a professor of public health at Columbia University arguably claims authorship of farms in the sky, though that could be attributed [...]
- Edible Village
[The increase of grain prices and the decrease of crop yields as displayed in a recent feature in the Economist.]
With the recent food crisis, one need look no further than Vancouver … and Cuba for responses.
Vancouver’s Olympic Village is set to include urban agriculture; rainwater management systems; green roofs; and neighbourhood energy system. The urban [...]
