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In the short term maybe, but once our transportation is electric (and our electricity isn't coming from coal or gas), the difference in environmental impact is

In the short term maybe, but once our transportation is electric (and our electricity isn't coming from coal or gas), the difference in environmental impact is negligible. Some trees and a nice garden would provide the same environmental benefit to a city, and look nicer too. There's no case to be made that there is any economic benefit to farming in the city. By all measures, it's much more expensive.

lostlogin 10y ago
To add a slight positive to urban farming - where I live used to be the agricultural heart of the region. It was settled partly because of this and the volcanic soil is very good. Move 100-150 years forward and urban sprawl has completely swallowed the good soil and we mainly farm further out on worse land. The same can be said of other places I'd have thought?
felipellrocha 10y ago
> here's no case to be made that there is any economic benefit to farming in the city. By all measures, it's much more expensive. I think that is a bit myopic. A small farm can look nice too. And even with electric transport, there's the fact that cities have to bulldoze over miles and miles of nature in order to accommodate the kind of transport you're talking about, mainly cars. Which is why some cities are moving away from cars and into more dense kinds of environments. Once that's done, transporting your crop of the day from the farm into the city becomes a bit of a hassle