Vertical farming is a proposed agricultural technique involving large-scale agriculture in urban high-rises or "farmscrapers". Using recycled resources and greenhouse methods such as hydroponics, these buildings would produce fruit, vegetables, edible mushrooms and algae year-round.
But so far it exists only in plans and drawings, and a model at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
Because building a farmscraper would cost too much, especially considering the price of land in many cities.
It seems crazy to build such a high-rises farm in Jaeren. But the agriculture today is still "two-dimensional", it can be develop to "3D".I mean if we use the vertical space, the production canbe double，even more.
On the other hand, todays’ intensive agriculture is considered to be the main agent responsible for the decline of plant species. Species diversity become more and more important to our environment. Maybe there should be a secret garden for them in Jaeren.
BTW, when I sent e-mail to Landbruks- og matdepartementet asking about the agriculture in Jaeren, they forward the request to the County Governor of Rogaland.
Here is the link to their website in English. http://www.fylkesmannen.no/hovedEnkel.aspx?m=10517
Good luck to me and everyone.^-^
Dear Yu
ReplyDeleteI like your new and fresh attitude in searching up things, and researching other things. Keep on, inform yourself in couragous
ways. Remeber inovations in your own country too.
We have discussed why no one have come up with every and all information on the species of Jæren, decline of plantspecies etc. That means "the dynamics of small cultures in the Jæren agricultural Landscapes". Secret gardens for diversity and new and interesting species (an offensive mosaic of biotopes) is a marvelous idea. A possible network, a game board, of species diversity in the homogenous Jæren farming field could appear.
You have more than one interesting path to follow now - and really good luck - keep up and have fun, use all your horticultural knowledge and capacity. Talk also to the other students located in the agricultural fields.
Hey again Yu
ReplyDeleteTalk to Alice about finding an expert in the Rogaland County, that can be your "visiteur" or guide. May be also Espen at the institute can guide you to some GIS information on this. I will send a mail to the journalist Odd Philstrøm (who wrote the article in Stavanger Aftenblad about our studio) and ask him to come up with a name or a source - OK. Or you can do it yourself?
Thank you for the "guidelines".
ReplyDeleteI am searching some datum about variety of crops in Jaeren and their distribution.
Could you please give me his e-mail address,the journalist Odd Philstrøm?
Then I can contact him myself.
Thanks again.
Dear Yu
ReplyDeleteodd.philstrom@aftenbladet.no is the mail adress to the Journalist Odd Philstrøm in Stavanger Aftenblad. It was he who proposed all the people we met at Ona lighthouse,
and he was there himself. You can also call/mail Ingvald Erga, who is hired by Stavanger City to lead the Green Movement. Alice has his maildadress, mobile and so on.
See my comments on the blog, related to your last blog spot on potatos on fifth floor. Ps I sent this yesterday to the mail address that Alice gave me.
these are Erga Ingvald mail and phone:
ReplyDeletewww.gronnhverdag.no
Mobil: 959 33 548
=)
Thank you so much.^-^Simola
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