Chumash, school district grow produce using towers

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Chumash, school district grow produce using towers

By Marissa Nall / Friday, August 26th, 2016 / Comments Off on Chumash, school district grow produce using towers

Students in the Hope School District in Santa Barabara County are learning to grow produce using vertical towers. Land scarcity has urban dwellers building upward not only with skyscrapers and high-rises, but with farms. Vertical farms can produce triple the number of plants on each acre that conventional growing does, with fewer impacts to the…

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