The cost of such a factory must be enormous compared with the cost of poking a seed or seedling in the ground and helping or just watching it grow. So commercial hydroponics aren’t financially feasible for the family farm or for the family shopper.
It may be necessary these days to protect growing plants from the intensity of our sunlight and from the materials being sprayed into the skies, but big factory bldgs are ugly.
Traditional organic farmers say that a man-made chemical soup of nutrients cannot adequately substitute for everything found in organic soil made by nature.
Factory farming emphasizes efficiency (productivity over healthiness) so uses GMO plants, pesticides, and perhaps chemicals not fpund in the ground, such as something that makes berries redder or leaves greener.
Those who plan to live in bunkers must have hydroponic gardens down there already, up and running. Perhaps nature will revolt.
Defense.gov News Photo 110426-A-7597S-183: U.S. Special Operations service members with Special Operations Task Force South board two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters following a clearing operation in Panjwa'i district in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, on April 25, 2011. Source: Wikimedia.
The cost of such a factory must be enormous compared with the cost of poking a seed or seedling in the ground and helping or just watching it grow. So commercial hydroponics aren’t financially feasible for the family farm or for the family shopper.
It may be necessary these days to protect growing plants from the intensity of our sunlight and from the materials being sprayed into the skies, but big factory bldgs are ugly.
Traditional organic farmers say that a man-made chemical soup of nutrients cannot adequately substitute for everything found in organic soil made by nature.
Factory farming emphasizes efficiency (productivity over healthiness) so uses GMO plants, pesticides, and perhaps chemicals not fpund in the ground, such as something that makes berries redder or leaves greener.
Those who plan to live in bunkers must have hydroponic gardens down there already, up and running. Perhaps nature will revolt.