Greenhouses for Local and Sustainable Food Production
We can bring agriculture into the city by building greenhouses that are producing food year-round and producing more per square foot, and more per acre, than a farm is able to. And instead of two harvests, you're getting four with a greenhouse. Our goal is to put the food production where the consumers are. And if you connect the consumers to the producer, you are creating a community.
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there are many issues with today's
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commercial agricultural system I was
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just driving through Yuma Arizona where
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90% of the lettuce from the US comes
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from in the winter all comes from one
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place and then we ship it everywhere
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else what we've seen is that we get e
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coli and lettuce and when we get that
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from one place there's a nationwide
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recall of lettuce when we can distribute
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where that lettuce comes from and make
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it more local we might still have an
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issue with lettuce at some point but
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it's going to be for that community it's
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going to be much easier to handle and it
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doesn't affect the entire country
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there's an urgency in industrial
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agriculture to shift out of this model
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that we've created that is very
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extractive both of the people that it
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employs and the resources that it's
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using we can bring agriculture into the
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city by building greenhouses that are
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producing food year-round a more per
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square foot more per acre than a farm is
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able to on an annual basis because
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instead of two harvests you're getting
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four the goal would be that the food is
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where the consumers are and I think if
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you connect the consumers to the
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producer because they're in the same
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neighborhood they're neighbors its
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community you're starting to create
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community
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I chose to put a greenhouse on the
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property because from a pure gross
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standpoint of view this property is
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actually deemed by the entire government
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to be non farmland it has the worst
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possible rating for the ability to grow
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and the irony here is that we're
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actually taking what is essentially
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wonderful scrub land and able to make
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this land extremely productive local
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food production and sourcing is
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something that is top of mind and many
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people our customers are playing
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contributing rules and filling spaces in
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places like Canada and northern markets
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where you can't simply find fresh and
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locally sourced produce through the
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winter months the context in Colorado is
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very unique because although we're a
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landlocked state we get most of our food
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from out of state which leaves us
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vulnerable in the event that we don't
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have the proper infrastructure to
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maintain food production so growing in a
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greenhouse that is close to the city
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centers of Denver and Boulder were able
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to supply local food while also reducing
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food miles and increasing the quality of
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the food the idea here is to be able to
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bring really
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fresh organic possible Tricia's
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to our communities
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grown in a way that helps the community
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communities in the end I think that's
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what we're trying what we're all trying
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to do people come together is always an
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amazing thing it's the seed that could
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sprout all kinds of things from
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