I originally found this on Huffington Post and just yesterday was talking to my boyfriend about how cool it would be to create local farms within local Chicago city neighborhoods. So instead of going to your farmer's market every Wednesday of the month you could have your own actual farmer within the community and neighborhood. This idea is a really neat one, definitely have to check it out.
But my idea is more like creating a three story glass building (a vertical farm) with solar panels for the electricity, using rain water to actual fed the plants, etc. The basic idea is to recycling everything used within the building and what nature gives to the building as well as the community giving back to the local farmer living in the building while taking care of the plants while we purchase all the goodies.
I always forget something when I go to the fruit market and when it comes to traffic its the worst feeling when you forget a herb or vegetable you want to make for a special dinner. Wouldn't be great to just walk a couple of blocks to your farmer down the road and just purchase your daily goods from there? Wouldn't it be cheaper to do or just as cheap if you bought from a fruit market?
I envisioned these local farming buildings (vertical farms) in a like 2-3 block radius N-S-E-W. To get a better visual of the building itself this is what I had in mind (but on a much smaller scale)
Can't we make this happen?
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