We who practice and teach the Square Foot Gardening method may be a bit ahead of the curve. Using SFG, one can grow 100% of the crop in 20% of the space, and fertilizer generally is unnecessary. Also, there's no digging or tilling, and very little weeding.

I'm reminded why I'm all for getting rid of the EPA and shifting that regulatory power to the states.

Terracing? Wow, now that's a thought!

The article shows the greenhouses with artificial lighting anyway. I was thinking about using the technology somewhere else that had good solar.

I always have serious doubts about these green miracle stories, they are usually fueled by incredible government funding and do not survive on their own. Solar farms are a prime example. I know a maintenance director at a large corporation that installed a major installation. If you take their investment even after the obscene government funding and tax breaks they received....the installation DOES NOT EVEN MAKE ENOUGH REVENUE TO PAY THE DEBIT SERVICE ON THE INSTALLATION! Which by the way will wear out in like 20 to 25 years.

However...that said...given the apparent vast scale of this there may be a possibility that this is the real deal. Usually these hopey changey green projects last like 3 years, which is how long the government money holds out.

That is totally cool !! I wonder why this isnt done in the USA. We have definitely lost our edge in innovation, and I think its because of the socialist tendencies of our government. It would probably take a lot of getting around regulations to do this here.

Or nuclear.

Sounds like a job for fossil fuels.

Awesome article. Thanks for sharing. People are complaining that we're running out of arable land. This just shows the advances that can be made to eliminate that argument. What is also interesting is that this can be applied in mountainous regions as well if combined with the terracing seen in ancient Mayan cities.

There are healthy trees to be found in downtown Birmingham where I live just outside the city limits.
A better example would be New York City's Central Park, which I've seen is unchanged in movies since a a visit there during the late 60s.

Gotta have sun to run the solar panels, though ;) Seaboard cities typically live under cloud cover much of the time. You'd also have to install artificial lights if you covered all the roofs.

Yep...yet they fail to observe the extreme good health of green plant life in the cities and by the road sides.

Me dino was thinking that the writer was one of those who'd look down his lefty prejudiced nose at any dirty, nasty fossil fuel that oozes up from its fetid unnatural (instead of natural) resource underworld to pollute the planet with the unholy exhaust fumes of industry, traffic and barbecue grills.

This might be the only way we grow food for the next 70 years or so during The Grand Solar Minimum. Every Town, City and Country in the world needs to do this.
Use all the [so called] fossil fuels you like...all those plants are gona need the carbon to breath during the day.

A species that can't adapt is gonna die.

Those greenhouse roofs look like the perfect place to mount a field of solar panels that could power the lighting and nutrient circulation. More experience with this type of farming will be helpful for supporting a Mars colony, since self sufficiency will be absolutely necessary for off world colonies.

Artificial seafood farming is about to grow, by moving farming to deep water, where natural nutrients are more available. That move is necessary to relieve pressure on wild resources.

Is this the start of another "green revolution?" Human creativity and productivity shows the doomsayers wrong repeatedly.

One sneaky little actual word glitch this time.
And too late to edit, unlike the title that does not spell check red-line.
Modifying "I DO proofread" to "uh, most of the time."

"a little glitch always wants to by in my face"
There is that glitch again! LOL

Thanks. Just noticed I needed to add an "n" to "Greehouses in the title." I DO proofread!
But it seems a little glitch always wants to by in my face the very next day, going, "Nyah! Nyah! Nyah!"

What a great article this is the new future of agriculture. Thanks Dino.