Greenhouses for Local and Sustainable Food Production

Greenhouses are becoming an increasingly popular way to produce local and sustainable food. A well-designed greenhouse can collect solar energy to help heat and light the plants inside, making it a more efficient way to grow food. In this video, we explore some of the benefits of greenhouses for local food production and how they can help ensure food security.

Transcript:
There are many issues with today's commercial agricultural system. I was just driving through Yuma, Arizona, where 90% of the lettuce from the US comes from in the winter all comes from one place, and then we ship it everywhere else.

What we've seen is that we get e-coli and lettuce, and when we get that from one place, there's a nationwide recall of lettuce when we can distribute where that lettuce comes from and make it more local.

We might still have an issue with lettuce at some point, but it's going to be for that community. It's going to be much easier to handle, and it doesn't affect the entire country.

There's an urgency in industrial agriculture to shift out of this model that we've created that is very extractive both of the people that it employs and the resources that it's using.

We can bring agriculture into the city by building greenhouses that are producing food year-round, a more per square foot more per acre than a farm is able to, on an annual basis because instead of two harvests, you're getting four.

The goal would be that the food is where the consumers are, and I think if you connect the consumers to the producer because they're in the same neighborhood, they're neighbors its community. You're starting to create community.

I chose to put a greenhouse on the property because from a pure gross standpoint of view. This property is actually deemed by the entire government to be non-farmland, it has the worst possible rating for the ability to grow, and the irony here is that we're actually taking what is essentially wonderful scrubland and able to make this land extremely productive local food production and sourcing is something that is top of mind and many people our customers are playing contributing rules and filling spaces in places like Canada and northern markets where you can't simply find fresh and locally sourced produce through the winter months.

The context in Colorado is very unique because although we're a landlocked state, we get most of our food from out of state, which leaves us vulnerable in the event that we don't have the proper infrastructure to maintain food production, so growing in a greenhouse that is close to the city centers of Denver and Boulder were able to supply local food while also reducing food miles and increasing the quality of the food.

The idea here is to be able to bring really fresh organic possible Tricia's to our communities grown in a way that helps the community communities. In the end, I think that's what we're trying, what we're all trying to do. People come together is always an amazing thing. It's the seed that could sprout all kinds of things from.

[andrewexner]

Excellent video and information! Love it

[markmsee]

Huh... I was shocked a bit at the beginning of this video when I saw my birthplace under the mountains - the Upper Carniola, Slovenia, EU.. and I was hoping and waiting that I meet your products/development also here - overseas... Pity!