Surrey BC may be home to region’s first vertical greenhouse
By Kelly Sinoski, The Vancouver Sun
21 Oct 2008
Rooftop gardens and vertical greenhouses could be a sign of the times in Metro Vancouver as the region wrestles with ways to tackle a global food crisis and the effects of climate change.
And Surrey could lead the trend, with at least one developer considering building a so-called vertical farm in Whalley, which is slated to become the region’s second downtown.
Vertical farms could potentially be as high as 30 storeys, with glass walls, solar panels and an irrigation system to grow beds of produce inside.
“We’re trying to look at the future and the future is going to be some form of urban agriculture,” Surrey Coun. Marvin Hunt said. “I’d like to see it right in the city centre.”
Read the complete article on The Vancouver Sun website.
To find out more about vertical farming go to this previous post.
Design of a vertical farm by Chris Jacobs
1 comment
Jessica Brock says:
Jan 14, 2009
Thank you so much for this article on vertical farming. It is so important to turn as much attention to this subject matter in hopes of helping local communities with self sustainability and local health!
Please come to Valcent’s blog (http://blog.valcent.net) and/or site to see what we’re doing in our vertical farming facilities. We are vertically growing today in commercially sized facility and research center based out of El Paso, Texas. Coincidentally though, our administrative offices are located in Vancouver.
Also, please be sure to check out our recent feature in TIME magazine.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1865974,00.html
http://blog.valcent.net
Jessica Brock
Valcent