Keeping an eye on developments in agriculture is important. New, innovative ideas might become the norm in the coming years.
Today, we’re looking at under water farming.
This is being lead by a company called Nemo’s Garden.
The process involves building an underwater bubble that acts like a greenhouse. Moisture and water purification occurs with the evaporation and condensation of the ocean water, while the regularity of ocean temperatures make the environment ideal for growing plants.
As the project expands, Nemo’s Garden is looking to make the environments more controllable, allowing farmers to tune these bubbles to the exact needs of different crops.
Of course, the advantage of a system like this is that the space it requires would be cheap and free by other infrastructure.
The next stage is for the system to be made scalable, so that large operations can produce crops that rival land farms.
Those of us that aren’t based near the coast shouldn’t immediately dismiss the idea. If land sharing schemes develop, it may be possible to rent part of an underwater farm that is tended by a community of farmers in a time-share fashion. Each farmer attends to the crop for an agreed-upon amount of time, and receives the proportional share of the crop and profits.
Of course, farmers will be required to learn to dive and to learn the exact details of controlling under water environments. But the technology has the potential to work in any kind of large body of water, and may be defining the future of farming.
It was once a sci-fi dream, now it’s becoming real.
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