Wired has a story about these fully automated, hydroponic, organic vegetable factories are coming to a town near you.
Organitech,ORGT, is a company that is building vegetable factories in Israel, Russia, and now New Jersey. They use no fertilizer, no pesticides, and no dirt. While the cost is higher than dirt-based vegetable factories, aka "farms", the fact that it's on the east coast makes it cheaper than produced shipped in from California.
Hippies will like it because the shorter distance to the supermarket means that less gas will be used to transport it. And it uses up much less land than a dirt farm does.
I'm playing the Cashflow game by Robert Kiyosaki. One of the dreams is the Urban Mini-farm. I always thought, "how cool is that?" And I was wondering if anybody actually did it. Turns out that they do, but not so much in the United States as they do in the UK. But in my Googling, I came happened acrossed Organitech which I think will be the future or agriculture.
Posted by joel at October 3, 2005 06:23 PM