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Cleveland
could produce most of its own food if the city's residents grew crops
on deserted lots, industrial rooftops and parts of occupied lots, a
study finds.
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The
city provides about 1.5% of its own produce, but Cleveland's
deindustrialized landscape provides fresh opportunities, two
researchers argue. They identify three dozen vegetables and 14 fruits
suitable to the Ohio climate and propose the introduction of chicken
coops and beehives.
In the least intensive scenario analyzed, which would make use of 80%
of every vacant lot, Cleveland could provide from 22% to 48% of its own
fruits and vegetables (depending on the farming techniques used); a
quarter of its own eggs and poultry; and all the honey, the researchers
estimate.
In the most intensive scenario, which would add 9% of every occupied
residential lot and 62% of every commercial rooftop, the city could
produce up to 100% of its fruit and vegetables and 94% of its eggs and
poultry.
"Can Cities Become Self-Reliant in Food?" Sharanbir S. Grewal and
Parwinder S. Grewal, Cities [WSJ]
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I can see spinner wheels on tractors.
ReplyDeletepoletax
People sweating, getting dirt under their fingernails, and taking responsibility.
ReplyDeleteThey would also find out that "Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."
This is a good idea.
I've got another study forya. If cities weren't Democrat vote farms, they would be self-reliant in income, taxes, and entitlement transfers.
ReplyDeleteThen they could afford to pay real farmers, who actually know how to grow food economically.
Democrat vote farms
ReplyDeleteprecious
It would never work. If they farmed all the vacant lots where would they put the migrant labor camps? You know the locals will not do the hard work required for farming.
ReplyDeleteAn African from Zimbabwe told me about what happened to the white owned farms there when the white farms where given to Mugambe's pets. They thought it would be easy and they would get rich like the white farmers. He said the first thin a lot of them did was buy a truck. Then they slowly found out that the white farmers had been working. Getting up every day before the sun came up. Doing repair work and all the other things farming requires. He said it broke his heart in a way they went from a country that was exporting food to one that was importing food. I spent my or misspent my youth in a small town that served the oil patch, ranching and farming. From what I saw and heard I decided to stay as far away from those occupations as possible. Too dangerous, to hard, and too uncertain and way too much like work.
ReplyDeleteWhy farm when you loot to eat for free?
ReplyDeleteDon't those academics know that all the food you want grows at Food Lion, Giant and 7-11?
ReplyDeleteThe locals burned them down?
Oh.
Nevermind.
BTW, some of the best farmland around here is under Walmart, Kmart and mega-shopping center parking lots.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick
Co-ops and collectives? How much of a cut does the private property owner of the lot get?
ReplyDeleteThat oughta turn out well...
Food??.
ReplyDeleteHahahaha
Screw the food!....How much pot can you grow there?
Swell ...
ReplyDeleteCleveland was built by immigrants and sons of immigrants who escaped the drudgery of scratching a living from the soil as peasants and found their dream in a society where efficiency of industrial production combined with high-intensity farming provided them a life of relative luxury. Now, some jackasses want 'em back in a peasant role.
Say, how big a tractor can the roof of an unused industrial plant hold, anyway? Oh ... okay, everybody grab a hoe.
Subsistence farming in the USA. NOW we'll start to see what REAL poverty is.
ReplyDelete--Sapo Mal