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I think it makes sense for fragile veggies like greens. Potatoes do fine on the truck ride in from the countryside, but baby arugula, not so much. Potatoes ar
by gyrgtyn 10y ago
I think it makes sense for fragile veggies like greens.
Potatoes do fine on the truck ride in from the countryside, but baby arugula, not so much.
Potatoes are also a lot easier to plant and harvest by machine.
Lawns don't make any economic sense; convert them to leafy greens and fancy perennials that are not economic to grow at a scale. Deliver greens to your neighborhood via bike. They are light. Sell them to fancy restaurants for $15 a pound and not have to pay for trucking them in from 50 miles away.
Then, convert equal amount of farmland being used for green, back into wildish stuff, so birds, bees, etc have room to live and improve (pollinate) the staple crops.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> Lawns don't make any economic sense; Yes, they do; the fact (if this is the case) that you don't personally gain utility from them doesn't mean they don't make economic sense, neither does.the fact that they generally aren't part of the production chain for a product for sale.
- Inthenameofmine 10y agoUS style lawns definitely don't make economic sense. That stuff only happened because of cheap energy, which in term is artificially cheaper/subsidized due to not including negative externalities. In Europe lawns don;t make sense, Asia neither.
- maxerickson 10y agoStaple crops mostly wind/self pollinate. (corn, wheat, soy, others)