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There are also the amazing gardens done by Patrick Blank of Paris, 
who was inspired by plants growing on rock walls and says his system 
can be any size and height. I haven't seen these in person, but think 
about what they're replacing in urban highrises -- typical corporate 
art or a blank wall. AFAIK his gardens are all ornamental so far.

 Vertical gardens such as the Buehler Enabling Garden at the Chicago 
Botanic Garden in the U.S. are good for people who can't bend down.


At 7:36 PM -0700 8/25/09, Ray Cirino wrote:
> There's tons more that can be adapted to a vertical tower.
> 1 .Greywater wetland filter
> 2. I call them shelf mushroom window boxes that reach out three feet more.
> Fire escape.
> 3. I think that tower can look more like nature to mimic what's 
> beautiful and functional
> 4. Each person on each story would have their own garden patch.
> 5. you also should be looking from the top for the IRS coming
> 6. you start your seedlings where the sun is, up in the sky.
> 7. your turn.
> From tpj@life.ku.dk  Wed Aug 26 07:18:51 2009
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to cite Sepp Holzer:

We come into the world, usually in a sterile hospital where =20
immediately, our natural roots are cut. We are then inoculated and =20
nursed with a chemical cocktail and begin our journey into and through =20=

an unnatural world, increasingly severed from Nature and from natural =20=

processes. Instead, would not a natural birth in the circle of one's =20
family and a natural childhood be the correct start for the future =20
life of a young person? And should not every planetary citizen have =20
the birthright to their own piece of earth upon which they could =20
develop and maintain their essential need to be nurtured and sustained =20=

by their natural environment? I maintain that a land reform which =20
confirms these realities is long overdue. By growing up in insulation =20=

and isolation from Nature and our Mitlebewesen, the creatures co-=20
existing with us, we lose the natural relationship to our environment. =20=

Growing up in symbiosis with plants, animals and humans, however, =20
enables an experience of meaningful belonging and sharpens the task =20
and ability to act as a thoughtful individual, the task of mastering =20
the challenge of Directing rather than Fighting. By observing the life =20=

all around us, our Mitlebewesen, do we discover that Nature is perfect =20=

already and that Creation has considered everyone; that everything is =20=

in relationship one with the other and that there is nothing to improve.


Thomas Paul Jahn, PhD
Associate Professor
Molecular Plant Nutrition
Plant and Soil Science Laboratory
Department of Agriculture and Ecology
Thorvaldsensvej 40
DK-1871 Frederiksberg C
Denmark

tel: +45 3533 3484
fax: +45 3533 3460
tpj@life.ku.dk



Den 26/08/2009 kl. 02.47 skrev mIEKAL aND:

> I doubt the author has ever made it out to the countryside..
>
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Lawrence F. London,
> Jr.<lflj@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > Food Forests wrote:
> > > Date: Monday, August 24, 2009, 7:12 PM
> > > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/opinion/24Despommier.html?_r=3D1
> > >
> > > By DICKSON D. DESPOMMIER
> > > IF climate change and population growth progress at their
> > > current pace, in roughly 50 years farming as we know it will
> > > no longer exist. This means that the majority of people
> > > could soon be without enough food or water. But there is a
> > > solution that is surprisingly within reach: Move most
> > > farming into cities, and grow crops in tall, specially
> > > constructed buildings. It=92s called vertical farming.
> >
> > Its a nice idea to add this type of eco-living-food production =20
> > system but to say
> > that will be all that's left after 50 years is absurd and =20
> > depressing. Obviously the author is tapping hotbutton issues
> > and lacks any real interest in bio farming or agriculture in =20
> > general, probably knows very little about same.
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