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Ikea debuts an indoor farm that grows greens three times faster than a garden
- richij 9y agoIn Shoreditch. That's all I needed to know.
- Miner49er 9y agoSounds exactly like what Plenty is doing.
- horsecaptin 9y agoThis looks like a personal greens garden. Isn't Plenty doing a large scale farm?
- CapitalistCartr 9y agoHere in sunny Florida, there are plenty of examples of efficient, indoor gardens. We call them grow houses. With supplemental CO2, mylar sheeting, and constant heat, they massively out-produce a normal garden. But they're still not economically viable for any legal produce. Sun, dirt, and water are still too cheap in the Eastern USA. With medical marijuana here, and full legalization on the horizon, I wonder how soon grow houses will be an obscure bit of history.
- KekDemaga 9y agoA few years ago I heard an episode of "you bet your garden" where the host got a question about the best lights and setup for growing tomatoes indoors. The host kept asking the guy why he would ever do such a thing as the tomatoes would cost much more than you would pay at the store for them and the caller didn't really have a good answer. The funny thing is, tomatoes require basically the same care and conditions as marijuana and I heavily suspect that was the true motivation of that question.
- zghst 9y agoReminds me of this company in Japan called Mirai that specializes in this type of advance agriculture. http://miraigroup.jp/en/ http://miraigroup.jp/en/
- OrwellianChild 9y agoThere must exist some kind of adage out there that acts as a couterpart to Betteridge's Law [1] which states: Any headline that celebrates an achievement in greater speed will invariably omit the correspondingly greater cost. If not, you can name it "Andrew's Law" in my honor. Hydroponics works. It works fast. But that's because it's using more resources in the form of heat and light than the average passive garden. Thermodynamically novel, this is not. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
- iancmceachern 9y agoThere are tons of exciting things happening in this space. Check out the OpenAg Movement out of the MiT Media Lab, Caleb Harper's TED talk on youtube. Also go to www.openagriculturesupply.com for all the Kits, Parts and supplies you need to build your own "Food Computer".