December 31st, 2007
Is HDVG The Solution To Urban Food Production?
HDVG or High Density Vertical Growing is a crop production method that can grow a large variety of fruit and leaf food crops in a small space. Should there be a problem with land deliveries of supplies, this could be the answer to providing high quality nutritious foods locally.
High Denisity Vertical Growing is a revolutionary new approach that delivers yeilds up to 20 times greater than conventional farming and uses 5%of the water required for comparable field crops. What is also amazing is that it does not require any herbicides or perticides, HDVG can make inner cities less dependant on trucked in food stuff and give them a high quality source of ripe, nutrient dense, healthy food.
It can also help make urban enviornments more viable due to their lack of dependance on trucked in food. Why? When food is brought in from outside your local area, it is usually picked early, packages and carted across country to your locale. Who knows how long the whole process takes. From the time the fruit/vegetable is picked, it starts losing nutritional value. Most of this is lost after EIGHT days. Just think of how long fruits and vegetables stay in your refrigerator?
When you compound this by picking food stuff early, you are eating foof that has not yet matured to the point of having all the necessary vitamins, minerals and enzymes incorporated. So you cannot derive the best benefit from it. Therefore your food is compromised before you get it and may have very little nutritional value by the time you eat it.
HDVG is just one way to bring the vitality back to local growing.