Vertical Farming
Vertical Farming (1915) by Gilbert Ellis Bailey - Hardcover | Souq - UAE
The Vertical Farm by Dickson Despommier
History of Vertical Farming:
The founder of Vertical Farming goes back to 1915. Gilbert
Ellis Bailey was the innovator & founder of Vertical Farming.
Vertical Farming is the practice of producing food &
medicine in vertically stacked layers, vertically inclined surfaces or intergraded
structures like skyscraper, used warehouse, or shipping container.
The modern idea of vertical farming use indoor farming
techniques CEA (controlled- environment agriculture. Most environment factors
are controlled. The facilities utilize artificial control of light,
Environmental control (humidity, temperature, gases, &
fertigation. Also some vertical farms used the same techniques similar to
greenhouses, with natural sunlight. There are a few different types of
Ways that Vertical farming is used. Here are some types with
little history about each type
.
1. Mixed
Used Skyscrapers:
Mixed-use skyscrapers were proposed and built by architect
Ken Yeang. Mr. Yeang proposes that plant
life should be within open air, mixed-use skyscrapers for climate control and
consumption.
His version of vertical farming is that used more personal
or community use than for wholesale.
2. Despommier's
skyscrapers:
This version of vertical farming is more for environmental
reasons, such as plant life in skyscrapers will require less energy and produce
less pollution than producing on natural landscapes.
It promotes mass cultivation of plant life for commercial
used in skyscrapers.
3. Stackable
shipping containers:
HIVE-INN CITY FARM NEW YORK CITY (PROPOSED)
A lot of companies have started to develop stacked recycling
shipping containers in urban areas. Brighter side Consulting created a complete
off-grid container system. Freight farms produce a
Green leafy machine
that means farm to table. outfitted with vertical hydroponics with climate
controls built within 12 m × 2.4 m shipping container.
Podponics built a vertical farm in Atlanta consisting of
over 100 stacked "grow pods. There is so many other ways to write about in
this section if you like to know you can google
Stackable shipping containers of vertical farming.
4.Abandoned
mine shafts:
This part of vertical farming is referring to as deep
farming, which takes advantage of underground temperatures & locations near
urban areas.One of the earliest drawings of a tall building that cultivates food was published in Life Magazine in 1909. The reproduced drawings feature vertically stacked homesteads set amidst a farming landscape.
This proposal can be seen in Rem Koolhaas's Delirious New
York. Koolhaas wrote that this 1909 theorem is ' The Skyscraper as Utopian
device for the production of unlimited numbers
Of virgin sites on a metropolitan location.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rem_Koolhaas
Some earlier architectural proposals, Immeubles-Villas . Can read more from this link. High-rise of Homes is a near revival of the 1909 Life Magazine Theorem
Some earlier architectural proposals, Immeubles-Villas . Can read more from this link. High-rise of Homes is a near revival of the 1909 Life Magazine Theorem
Some examples of buildings are the following:
• Images of
the vertical farms at the School of Gardeners in Langenlois, Austria,
• The
glass tower at the Vienna International Horticulture Exhibition 1964
• The
Armenian tower hydroponics is the first built examples of a vertical farm,
Sholto Douglas' Hydroponics
• Ken
Yeang's Bioclimatic Skyscraper (Menara Mesiniaga, built 1992)
Dickson Despommier
reopened the topic of VF in 1999 with graduate students in a medical
ecology class.
He estimated that
30-floor farm on one city block could provide food for 50,000 people
including vegetables, fruit, eggs and meat, explaining that hydroponic crops
could be grown on upper floors,
While the lower
floors would be suited for chickens and fish that eat plant waste. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_farming
In 2013 in Munich, Germany Association for vertical farming
was founded.
Illustrate how it falls into one of the categories above?
Vertical farming fits
into culinary industry under technology.
The term of vertical farming was coined by Gilbert Ellis
Bailey in 1915 in his book Vertical Farming. His term differs from the current
meaning. He wrote about that farming,
With special interest in soil origin and nutrient content of
plant life as vertical life forms. Relating to this underground root structure.
Modern usage of vertical farming refers
To growing plants in layers, weather in a multistory
skyscraper, used warehouse, or shipping container. Gilbert Ellis Bailey is
founder of Vertical Farming
In 1999 professor of microbiology and public health at
Columbia University. The professor name was Dickson Despommier. Despommier has
received considerable media coverage for his ideas on
Vertical farming. He developed his concept of vertical
farming over a 10-year period with graduate students in a medical ecology class
beginning in 1999.
The work has been continue by designer Chris Jacobs and
The work has been continue by designer Chris Jacobs and
Eco-architects Gordon Graff of University of Waterloo.
To me Vertical farming is really important because it uses
95% less water, its recycle water its uses.
An other reason is the it’s indoors so it doesn’t need to. Use herbicides and pesticides. Its primary focus for vertical farming is
that it maximizing the use of natural resources, such as the sunlight.
13 Vertical Farming Innovations That Could Revolutionize Agriculture
This really hasn't really affected me because I never knew about vertical farming till I did this blog. I really interested in doing a lot more research, to me vertical farming
Is great innovation. There are so many new innovations that
will change the culinary industry.
State of Indoor Farming 2017 — Agrilyst
State of Indoor Farming 2017 — Agrilyst
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