by LoLa, 20 November 2009

In cities around the world, rooftops are turning green, with fruits, vegetables, even rice and eggs being harvested by slick city dwellers hungry to connect with nature, and their own just-picked vine-ripened produce.

It's definitely a win-win all around! Converting human waste into fertilizer for these urban farms, saving the cost of long-distance transportation of produce into cities by moving farms indoors into purpose made "farm-buildings". No wonder then that more cities are planning to join the effort. The prospect of SAVING PRECIOUS TREES AND FORESTS from being turned into FARMLAND, coupled with efficient recycling of many forms of organic waste into fertilizer, sounds like a good idea, doesn't it?

But, it remains to be seen whether it is it possible to grow enough food to feed the massive populations of many of today's Mega-Cities with populations in the double-digit millions? Can crops thrive, year-after-year in indoor farms? Present-day hydroponics seem to prove that they can and do.

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