Краткий пересказ текста на английском языке больше нет ... Growing Up.

Stories of The Hanging gardens of Babylon,one of the ancient Babylon, one of the seven world, tell of a structure with luwh green gardens on different leve many metres high. These are long gona, but our modern consume society continues to drain the resources, the frises and food prices soar a modern-day equivalent may soon to springing up in your neighbourhood!

According to UN by the year 2050, the population of plane Earth have risen to over 9 billion and feeding all these peop will require extra farmland the size of Brazil Finding this agricultural larc be a real challenge, but one that some creative scientists belew they have solved with the idea ofvedical farming The idea is actually ver simple Just as an apartment block has different storeys, a vertical far will have many different floors growing a variety of fruit and vegetables On one floor there will be lettuces, on the next floor carrots and another tomatoes, and so on. The walls will be made of glass to allow sunlight and instead of soil, the produce wil be grown in a solution of nutrients and water.

Dr and water points ou Dickson Despommier, a professor at Columbia University, peopl that just one 30 storey building could provide food for 10,000 "With about 160 of these buildings, you could feed all of New York ' he says. but as well as offering a solution to possible food shortages this idea is environmentally friendly. often, by the time food arrives on your plate, it will have been travelling for days or even months! vertical farms, however, will go up in the centre of the city and will be powered by solar and wind power so we'll save on transport costs, burn less fossil fuels and we'll all be eating fresh local produce from the skyscraper next at the moment door!

The idea isn't without its problems, though. crops nearer the glass would get more light which means they they wouid grow quicker than crops father away. the only whole floor to get direct sunlight would be the top one Possible solutions include having a parmanent light sourse on every floor like the ones we now have in industrial greenhouses. at the moment the cost of building and lighting these modern hanging gardens of be able to do it soon.

manking has been farming horizontally for over 15000 years, but now almost 80 of our farmand is already time we started growing up?

how to consume less and poduce more

convert the rooftop of your block of flats into a garden and grow your own vegatabltes.

use window boxes to grow fruit and veg like tomatoes , peppers and strawberries.

some communities are getting together and starting their own community farms on pieces of wasleland. you could get involved in a local project like this or even start one of your own!

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