Within the city of Detroit, home to nearly 1,400 community gardens and farms, there is one officially designated agrihood, Michigan Urban Farming Initiative. The nonprofit in the North End neighborhood, just north of the recently gentrified Midtown area, calls itself America’s First Sustainable Urban Agrihood.
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Interesting. I wonder what this really means. Are no fertilizers used? And mostly rain water? I wonder how sustainable it is?
Very cool.
Indoor vertical farming is the big game changer though.
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Well, they are failing at an epic rate.
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Excellent video.
Very interested in this Ground News platform.
TL:DR- Labor and equipment/maintenance are still many multiples too high vs traditional farming to get near par on unit cost.
Will the VC funding keep up until that gets solved? Maybe. Not at the moment though. The automation tech needs a breakthrough to kill labor costs.
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They spoke about possible Middle East applications and I thought Central America should also be a consideration. Low cost of labor and then there’s the abundant sunshine. Buy existing equipment from the less fortunate that couldn’t make it work, well, it would take a fair amount of pencil and paper. This is what OUR country should be exporting in aid. And agree with re to the “Ground News” platform, great research on their part. I wonder what else they are up to?
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