@BenjaminHCCarr Keep in mind that there's an inherent contraction in all scales of things (what goes Big Bang, goes Big Crunch), and a vital infrastructure like farming, will only sustain 'flat plain' systems for so long.
This is where evolution to vertical farming is in order.
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Vertical farming isn't about growing tomatoes indoors. It's about redesigning the metabolic logic of cities — from consumers of food to producers of it. That's a civilizational shift hiding inside a hydroponic system.
https://onlys.ky/vertical-farms/
#VerticalFarming #UrbanAgriculture #FoodSecurity #FutureOfFood #Sustainability
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Hard to fight when you're hungry.
Solar-powered vertical indoor farming in abandoned warehouses and Kmarts, anyone?
#Resilience #food #FoodSecurity #gardening #farming #VerticalFarming
I came across a piece this week on the slow erosion of small farming — the consolidation, the industrialization, the quiet disappearance of local growing capacity.
It sent me back to Evan Fraser's Empires of Food. His argument is uncomfortable but hard to dismiss: the civilizations that lost control of their food supply didn't survive it.
That's not ancient history. It's a pattern worth paying attention to right now.
#FoodSovereignty #CEA #VerticalFarming #EmpiresOfFood #FoodSecurity
"Canada became a commodity and ingredient country. We handed the commercialization value away to other nations in exchange for what felt like easier returns."
— Arlene Dickinson
That framing is worth sitting with. It wasn't just an economic miscalculation — it was a sovereignty one.
The answer she's pointing at isn't only policy. It's domestic production capacity. Year-round. Local. Decoupled from the supply chains now under strain.
#FoodSovereignty #VerticalFarming #BuyCanadian #FoodSecurity
What does it cost to produce the food on your plate?
Not the price. The cost.
Turns out those are very different numbers, and the gap between them has been quietly accumulating on someone else's balance sheet for a long time.
I wrote about hidden costs, broken ROI models, and a paradox that the food industry has no clean answer to.
Charlebois is right — Canadians under pressure are skipping fast food and heading straight to grocery.
From a food sovereignty angle, that shift matters. Retail is where the affordability battle is being fought now.
CEA is already part of that story — local, year-round greens getting genuinely competitive on price.
Next frontier: bundle in protein. Whole meals, not just salad bags.
#AskFedi, #Fediverse, a topic just came up: many in the #EU are looking to #renewables to strengthen their #sovereignty by reducing #dependencies - e.g. #methane for #electricity generation.
The challenge to balance is just as sharp when it comes to #food #SupplyChain s. How can densely populated regions produce bread grains, rice, or for that matter mustard and lentils?
#VerticalFarming #VF and #UrbanAgriculture #UA can improve availability of leafy produce, fruits; but seed crops?
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Will this be what takes #VerticalFarming mainstream? 🤣
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