o Describe how your garden project relates to sustainable agriculture (address all 3 components of sustainable agriculture: economy, environment, and community)
Economy: Since it creates more farmable lands out of thin air, this would lessen the transportation fees by minimising food miles.
Environment: Options for areas are enlarge to grow food. The structure of these collective pots of vegetables can increase air quality since the amount of green is added to the environment. Due to the arrangement, carbon dioxide emission associated with moving the food over far distance can be decreased.
Community: Less human labour is required to move food from one place to another place.
o Describe how your garden project relates to food security
Vertical planting is an innovative, effortless and highly productive growing system. It can offer some security for the owners and provide them with a resource that can add to their incomes. Food growing from small sections of the network can receive enough nutrients from the environment and ensured the quality and quantity of the production. Since it does not need a lot amount of maintenance fee, this practiced can also be used to improve nutrition by growing important and sometimes expensive vegetables in minimizing areas.
o If you scaled up your design (expand it to a commercial scale), how would the legs of the stool change? How would your practices change?
If this design is scaled up to a commercial perspective, it can comparatively increase the food production and sustain the local sustainability. The practice allows farms to produces a variety of vegetables which can increase the variety of food products with no effort. Since less areas for planting are required, human maintenance fee is reduced and this system can be easily expand to produce more vegetables in a long-term plan. May practice may be enlarged to large-scale in order to meet the population requirements in the future.
o What have you learned?
From this project, I have learnt various ways for local communities to build up and rely on their own food secure system. Unlike the metropolitan city which I came from, the local area here needs an optimal system which can benefit both the local family companies and the neighboring customers. The Community Supportive Farm can be used as a successful practice in places like the Vancouver Island, enhancing the positive relationships between the farmers, producers and the consumers. Also, being able to acknowledge and practice vertical planting is also valuable because this method is effortless, efficient and easy-for-the-eye. The plants which we have planted grow well and we hope that we can harvest some before we leave in June.
o What would you like to share with others?
Vertical planting is really an easy way of planting. When some want to practice this method, they should choose the shoe stack which each level of cubicles which are not permeable to water. IF they are, the amount of water will drip town to the bottom and the plants on the top will not be able to acquire enough water for growing.
Economy: Since it creates more farmable lands out of thin air, this would lessen the transportation fees by minimising food miles.
Environment: Options for areas are enlarge to grow food. The structure of these collective pots of vegetables can increase air quality since the amount of green is added to the environment. Due to the arrangement, carbon dioxide emission associated with moving the food over far distance can be decreased.
Community: Less human labour is required to move food from one place to another place.
o Describe how your garden project relates to food security
Vertical planting is an innovative, effortless and highly productive growing system. It can offer some security for the owners and provide them with a resource that can add to their incomes. Food growing from small sections of the network can receive enough nutrients from the environment and ensured the quality and quantity of the production. Since it does not need a lot amount of maintenance fee, this practiced can also be used to improve nutrition by growing important and sometimes expensive vegetables in minimizing areas.
o If you scaled up your design (expand it to a commercial scale), how would the legs of the stool change? How would your practices change?
If this design is scaled up to a commercial perspective, it can comparatively increase the food production and sustain the local sustainability. The practice allows farms to produces a variety of vegetables which can increase the variety of food products with no effort. Since less areas for planting are required, human maintenance fee is reduced and this system can be easily expand to produce more vegetables in a long-term plan. May practice may be enlarged to large-scale in order to meet the population requirements in the future.
o What have you learned?
From this project, I have learnt various ways for local communities to build up and rely on their own food secure system. Unlike the metropolitan city which I came from, the local area here needs an optimal system which can benefit both the local family companies and the neighboring customers. The Community Supportive Farm can be used as a successful practice in places like the Vancouver Island, enhancing the positive relationships between the farmers, producers and the consumers. Also, being able to acknowledge and practice vertical planting is also valuable because this method is effortless, efficient and easy-for-the-eye. The plants which we have planted grow well and we hope that we can harvest some before we leave in June.
o What would you like to share with others?
Vertical planting is really an easy way of planting. When some want to practice this method, they should choose the shoe stack which each level of cubicles which are not permeable to water. IF they are, the amount of water will drip town to the bottom and the plants on the top will not be able to acquire enough water for growing.