Feed A Village with Vertical Greenhouse Structures

By Judy Stevens

In the past greenhouses were used for small gardens and caring for individual horticulturalists prized flowers but commercial greenhouses are in the focus more lately with all of the attention given to green and sustainable living choices.

For example, universities and agricultural departments have built commercial greenhouses for their studies. These were only a larger version of smaller greenhouses made for individuals. Many elementary and pre-schools were also building greenhouses to teach and to educate the generations to come. These children and students were learning about our world, our earth, life, organic growing, eating habits and self-worth.

As our land and our soil become more and more obsolete, another good reason to build a greenhouse is to plant a garden using hydroponics. Hydroponics is used to grow without the use of soil but something more available that can transport nutrients to the roots of the plants.

Lately, there has been some information out about building acreage vertical instead of horizontal which is termed "eco building". It is the concept of building large high rises or using unused office buildings built in glass to house plantations and generate crops. This would allow cities and countries to grow a wide range of vegetation in places where there were no spaces, or available land. It would also allow crops to grow in countries where at one time they had to ship crops in from other countries. This would allow gaining more economical standards for some countries who at one time could not grow a particular crop, example, tomatoes. Such is true for some of the nations poor populations. If we can supply healthy food through greenhouse growing for those who normally have climates that don't allow healthy growth, we could feed a nation by building these greenhouse structures up.

Farming with organic fertilizers would banish many problems we have today. By allowing some insects to live and those insects eating the harmful insects that destroy plants is one solution. Without using the harmful chemicals on the crops, and with the use of greenhouses we can see a better result in "green" ecology and living. All of us have great desires to get back to the natural way we were meant to live, without chemicals, harmful harmones injected into our live stock. It is time we do something to change our direction.

The conscientiousness of our economy, green living, and saving the planet are all nice well meaning ideas, but building vertical greenhouses are a great way to conquer all of these giants.

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