{"id":2181,"date":"2014-02-11T10:59:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T10:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2014-02-18T11:20:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T11:20:21","slug":"farming-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/farming-in-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Farming in the city."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a cute idea and seems to have much merit.\u00a0 Put a fish farm in a shipping container, plonk a hydroponic greenhouse on top and &#8220;hey presto&#8221; you have a self-contained, eco-efficient food production system that can sit in a small garden or yard behind your house or urban industrial\/commercial building.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecf-farmsystems.com\">ECF Farmsystems Containerfarm<\/a> claims:<\/p>\n<p>Healthy Vegetables &#8211; With an ECF Containerfarm you can grow over 400 varieties of plants, including tomatoes, salads, cucumbers, basil, mint, eggplant, zucchini, gooseberry and even cut flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh fish &#8211; 75 tilapia perch grow in a Containerfarm. At the end of the season each fish weighs about 500-600gr. They are delicious fresh from the grill stuffed with rosemary and lemon.<\/p>\n<p>Good for the environment &#8211; ECF farms are extremely economical in water consumption, minimize transport distances and cold chains and work without pesticides or chemical fertilizers. Water, love, organic fertilizers and organic feed, that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of the city &#8211; Vegetables and fish produced directly around the corner. Eco-friendly and transparently grown, without transport kilometers and cold chains.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ECF.CF_.Outside3-2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2182\" alt=\"ECF.CF_.Outside3-2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ECF.CF_.Outside3-2.jpg?resize=752%2C272\" width=\"752\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ECF.CF_.Outside3-2.jpg?w=940&amp;ssl=1 940w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ECF.CF_.Outside3-2.jpg?resize=300%2C108&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 752px) 100vw, 752px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>EU Commission: <a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/environment\/ecoap\/about-eco-innovation\/good-practices\/germany\/20140211-german-start-up-offers-eco-efficient-urban-container-farming_en.htm\">German start-up offers eco-efficient urban container farming<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a cute idea and seems to have much merit.\u00a0 Put a fish farm in a shipping container, plonk a hydroponic greenhouse on top and &#8220;hey presto&#8221; you have a self-contained, eco-efficient food production system that can sit in a small garden or yard behind your house or urban industrial\/commercial building. ECF Farmsystems Containerfarm claims: &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/farming-in-the-city\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Farming in the city.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,35,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-homenandgarden","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-zb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2186,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions\/2186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}