Just For Fun,

Diana and myself are trying to grow some tomatoes and peppers,

outside in the open air, but looking at this maybe we should be growing them indoors, from the disaster of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that shook the island nation of Japan resulting in a loss of farming produce, this enterprise by Shigeharu Shimamura, the man who helped turn a former semiconductor factory into the planet’s biggest interior factory farm has some mind bowing statistics,

in this indoor farming endeavour are a staggering: 25,000 square feet of space, (about half the size of a football field) in which the company produces 10,000 heads of lettuce per day, (100 times more per square foot than traditional methods) with 40% less power, 80% less food waste and 99% less water usage than outdoor fields, the beauty of this development lies partly in its versatility – since it deals in climate-controlled spaces and replicable conditions, a solution of this sort can be deployed anywhere in the world to address food shortages of the present and future, 


saving space, indoor vertical farms are also good candidates for local food production in crowded and high-cost urban areas around the globe,


now the even better news, a new facility using the same technologies has been announced and is now under construction in Hong Kong, with Mongolia, Russia and mainland China on the agenda for subsequent near-future builds, I wonder if we should convert the spare bedroom?