Urban Agriculture Blooms

Discovery-News.com: Produce is being grown in the most unlikely place. Discovery News' Matt Danzico takes a tour through New York City's sustainable agriculture barge.

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• urban
• farm
• produce
• clean
• air
• energy
• city
• new
• york
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• danzico
• discovery

[SpikesScarletWitch]

ok, everyone is acting like this is some HUGE great idea..while the science of it's pretty cool, most people with a smidge of common sense have been doing this for decades or longer(growing their own food), common sense people..we need more of it.  no matter who is right or wrong in the "global warming" thing. COMMON SENSE!!!!

[natpath]

think as a demonstration project, the barge is a great way to get people thinking abstractly about sustainable agriculture.

It is that the carbon footprint of city dwellers is less than suburban and rural residents.

Who eats 2.2 pounds of potatoes a day!!!! To use this premise is nonsense. I garden on a plot that is about 20 by 20 and it provides about half my veggies for the year.

Frankly, I think most people in this country have just gotten too soft to try it.

[happinesson]

urban agriculture. bringing the vegetables closer to the heart of the city!

[Ghostrade2010]

Great video. I would like to get some feedback on the Ghostrade movement. It is an innovative way to recycle technology as well as filter it down to other people who can benefit. It would be great to link with this video. Do a YouTube Search

[solaninshadows]

convert errrrrr sum of the elements (fish crap) LOL im a fan of that i would have said SHIT ! 

[UltraCoolSuperOne97]

watch my vid urban aggie rap

[juicyjuicejosh]

LOL I HAVE A HYDRO SET-UP INDOORS that I built myself...It grows plants herbs like you wouldnt believe and FAST.... I have a Mutant Mint Plant. (like a bush, and it's really unheard of thats how healthy it is),, and Im growing fully organic btw.... EARTH JUICE Nutrients... It costs so much less than when I farm outdoors in the summer!!!! I also live in the city so its just the way too go. All I have to say is. If ur a farmer against it! Then Maybe you should do it! Ur wasting time $ energy DO IT

[albinothug]

if you're interested in urban agriculture and vertical farming, be sure to check out the vertical farm blog and spread the word. the way we eat determines how the world is used, said wendell berry. we've got to come up with a better food system than our current one, which leaves 1 billion people hungry every year. we can do better.

[communistjesus]

URBAN FARMING IS THE FUTURE..

[coastsj]

Very cool!

[hablerz]

@jjsjeffjjsjeff City folk are aware of these 'fields' you talk about , the trouble is these 'fields' are not in the city. In the real world food is shipped in from hundreds of miles away from 'fields' using 'oil' as fuel. This 'oil' will not be around in 40 years and so people in the city will have no access to 'fields' and so no access to food.