City Agriculture - January 19, 2023

by gmoke Fri Jan 20th, 2023 at 04:29:24 AM EST

3D printing houses with dirt, green walls and various crops built-in
http://www.fastcompany.com/90780034/bioconstruction-will-build-homes-out-of-flowering-3d-printed-dir t

Singapore skyscraper, Capita Spring, with a food forest on top and gardens throughout
http://big.dk/#projects-sing
http://inhabitat.com/this-is-how-singapore-does-vertical-biophilic-urbanism/

Reducing energy in Controlled Environment Agriculture [CEA]
http://www.agritecture.com/blog/2022/10/18/5-organizations-trying-to-solve-ceas-energy-problems
Editorial Comment:  These are the only CEA operations I know of which designed energy efficiency into their systems from the beginning:
Net zero vertical farm in Chicago
http://inhabitat.com/food-waste-fuels-vertical-farming-in-chicago/
InFarm for supermarkets who want to grow their own food
http://www.fastcompany.com/3058155/at-this-supermarket-the-produce-section-grows-its-own-produce

CO2 to boost plant growth in rooftop farming
http://interestingengineering.com/innovation/co2-boost-plant-growth-on-roof
http://www.wbur.org/news/2018/05/15/rooftop-garden-bu
hat tip to Nathan Phillips

BBC on carbon farming
http://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211020-carbon-farming-a-better-use-for-half-earths-land

BBC with Corteva, an agriscience company with roots in the DuPont companies, has produced three editions of eight half hour programs and three specials since 2021
http://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/follow-the-food/

Growing wheat indoors and without soil
http://agfundernews.com/infarms-indoor-wheat-suggests-we-re-examine-the-realities-of-vertically-farm ed-commodities

Cutting-edge tech made this tiny country a major exporter of food
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2022/netherlands-agriculture-technology/
Editorial Comment:  If you can't get past the Washington Post paywall, copy the address into http://archive.ph

Forest stadium for Milan, Italy (a design concept but not an actual project)
http://www.stefanoboeriarchitetti.net/en/project/san-siro-an-international-forest-stadium-for-milano /
http://inhabitat.com/stefano-boeri-architetti-designs-a-forest-stadium-in-milan/

How Tunisia's lagoon farms use saltwater from the Mediterranean Sea
http://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1387222141790782
hat tip to Monica Raymond

BBC asks "What if all our food was grown in indoor vertical farms?"
http://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230106-what-if-all-our-food-was-grown-in-indoor-vertical-farms

How to make vegetables last longer
http://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230118-how-to-make-fruit-and-vegetables-last-longer