It's easy enough to take a good vitamin supplement like Fgrmulas Inc's
"Molecular Multi"
AA
On 3/18/2017 11:29 AM, H LV wrote:
Good questions.
Lets hope vertical farming is well studied before it becomes common
place or it could become another agricultural folly.
Harry
On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Bob Higgins
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
One of the problems with agricultural vegetables today is that
they are devoid of the micronutrients that the human body needs to
be healthy. These include a lot of trace minerals (boron, calcium,
vanadium, iodine, zinc, copper, magnesium ...) that are found in
fresh soil; but for 100 years, these micronutrients have been
farmed out (and not replaced). Farmers only add N-P-K back to the
soil because they found that doing so would make green plants, but
that doesn't mean that the resulting plants are chemically
nutritious for humans. Historical farming was most nutritious in
flood plains because the flood silt would restore the
micronutrients to the soil.
Plants cannot absorb these micronutrients as oxides or sulphates
directly - they must be broken down by consumption in bacteria
within the soil and chemically converted to metal chelates in the
bacterial deficant before the plants can absorb them.
So, how in a vertical farm are the core nutrients and
micronutrients supplied to the plant in a way that the plant can
absorb them? Are they growing the bacteria in a vat from which
they extract the chelate-rich water (absorb-able nutrients) for
spraying on the plant roots? Are the resulting plants nutritious?
On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 8:36 AM, H LV <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Vertical farming is slowly becoming more common.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_tvJtUHnmU
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_tvJtUHnmU>
Harry
