Vertical Farming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT4TWbPLrN8
Growing Up: How Vertical Farming Works
With the global population set to exceed nastavenou tak,že překoná 10 billion people by 2050, the challenge of providing zajistitenough food for everyone in a sustainableudržitelným, efficient účinným and cost-effective nákladově efektivním way is rising in significancenabývánavýznamu. Shedding zbavitse the restrictions of seasonal weather patterns sezónní charakter počasí, overcoming překonat transportation challenges and significantly značně enhancing yields zvýšitvýnosy, the growing trend of "vertical farming" could herald předznamenávat the future of food production.
FOR thousands of years, human populations have farmed the land for food. But with a sharp rise in the number of people on our planet over recent centuries – as a result of the industrial revolution, increased living standards and falling mortality rates úmrtnost – the pressure on traditional farming has continually increased.
While modern techniques have enabled umožnit enhanced zlepšit production rates produkci, more than 11% of the world's total land area is now used for crop production rostlinnou výrobu- creating environmental challenges environmentální výzvy that range from habitat clearing ničení habitatu to soil degradation znehodnocení půdy- and placing immense nesmírný pressure on our planet's resources.
Furthermore, as our cities expand, the distances between suitable farming land and the large populations who consume their produce are growing, raising the impact of transportation. Added to these challenges is a changing climate that is disrupting narušuje seasonal weather patterns and the lack of suitable soils in close proximity bezprostřední blízkost to rapidly expanding areas.
One potential solution is the quite literally growing trend of "vertical farming" - a concept that sees the sprawling rozlehlé crop farms plodinové farmy of old condensed into much smaller factory-like sites míst v podobě továren where conditions can be optimised and yields výnosy significantly increased.
Facilities like Aerofarms' in New Jersey see crops produced in an enclosed environment uzavřené prostředí where almost everything from the lighting and ambient okolní temperature to soil conditions and nutrients are carefully controlled.The facility uses extensive vertical racking rozměrné vertikální regály to optimise space as compared to ve srovnání s a conventional crop farm, enabling umožňuje it to be located on a far smaller site and much closer to an established založeným urban area městským oblastem.
Such a location reduces the extent of haulage nákladní doprava or "food miles" required to transport produce to consumers, cutting CO2 emissions. Geography aside zeměpis stranou, the creation of controlled conditions delivers přináší many benefits. Firstly, the process of crop production is insulated izolován from seasonal weather patterns that are highly susceptible náchylné to disruption narušování as a result of výsledkem our changing climate.
On a vertical farm, lighting, water and temperature can all be optimised to remove climatic risks and enhance production rates zvýšit produkci. As a result, sites like MIRAI's facility near Tokyo – the world's largest city – are able to generate yields 50 to 100 times greater than that of a traditional crop farm. The use of a controlled environment also eliminates the losses from birds and insects that must be factored být zohledněno on conventional farms, cutting the need for harmful pesticides to které be used and improving the quality of produce.
Vertical farms also optimise the level of nutrients that crops plodiny receive, solving the challenge of finding a sufficient extent dostatečnou rozlohu of suitable farming land in close proximity to a major urban area. In many instances vmnohapřípadech, soil is removed altogether and crops are grown on membranes where they are sprayed with nutrient-rich solutions. Of course, vertical farms do have their limitations and critics have pointed to poukazovat na the level of energy required to maintain such refined zušlechtěné environments.
While these b are valid, several vertical farms are powered zásobené elektřinou by renewable technologies obnovitelné zdroje and recycle many of their resources. The use of energy efficient LED lighting reduces power consumption, while the blue and red shades of light are even more economical to run ekonomickýchod.
The optimised crop production process also allows vertical farmers to reduce the amount of water used, and many vertical farms are served by rainwater harvesting systems zachycování dešťové vody. Some even collect and recycle the water that condenses within the controlled environment itself.
This closed-cycle approach has the added benefit of preventing nutrients and fertilizers from damaging the land or being washed být spláchnuté in rivers and streams.
Though the cost and availability of land for vertical farms in urban areas can prove challenging, many facilities are finding home in re-purposed znovu použité shipping containers, former factories and disused warehouses sklady.
More sophisticated schemes, like the proposal by Studio NAB below, could even see the vertical farming concept broadened to include the production of fish and honey while re-connecting consumers with the food production process and establishing sustainable jobs for the surrounding community.
While the vertical concept still represents a small part of the global food production industry, the benefits it offers to our ever-expanding stále se rozrůstající population could come to tilt naklonění the farming landscape by 90 degrees.
Vocabulary below can help you to answer following questions.
What gardening works do you do in your garden?
Would you like to work outdoors?
Which seasonal garden works do you like or dislike?
Do your children help you in the garden? Do they like caring for plants?
Do you like working with nature and greenery?
Being a gardener would be the job for me / the career path for me.
Are you interested in working with plants?
Which plants, trees, flowers and shrubs do you grow, care for in your garden?
What do you do to keep your garden neat and tidy?
Do you have green fingers?
I can spend many hours every day working in my garden, and being there makes me feel fresh and happy……??
I got interested in gardening because of my mother and grandmother…..??
I grow many different types of herbs, fruits and vegetables, which we eat and enjoy….??
VERTICAL FARMING
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How long does it take to grow plants in vertical farming?
How can we make sure that vertical farming does not waste water?
How might vertical farming change the way people eat?
Which factors have increased the pressure on traditional farming?
How does vertical farming improve the quality of produce?
What are possible drawbacks of vertical farming?
How could vertical farming reduce the problem of pollution?
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QUOTES
A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.
"When the world and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden."
"We know we cannot plant seeds with closed fists. To sow, we must open our
hands.
"Nature is not a place to visit, it is home."
Hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature - gardening is to feed not just the body, but the soul."
VOCABULARY
GARDENING TOOLS ZAHRADNÍ NÁŘADÍ
spade rýč
rake hrábě
hoe motyka
pickaxe krumpáč
digger bagr
fork vidle
wheelbarrow kolečko
sickle srp
scythe kosa
shovel lopata
trowel lopatka
saw pila
chain saw řetězová pila
handsaw ruční pilka
shears nůžky
watering can kropicí konev
bucket kbelík
hose hadice
pump pumpa
mower sekačka
insect traps pasti na hmyz
tools - https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=mxSMNdi_2Y4
PLANTS
tree strom
flowers květiny
shrubs keře
bushes křoví
hedge živý plot
trunk kmen
crown koruna
root kořen
branch větev
leaf list
bark kůra
seeds semena
bugs, pests brouci a škůdci
greenhouse skleník
flower bed záhon
raised bed vyvýšenýzáhon
GARDEN ACTIVITIES
pruning prořezávání shrubs and trees
trimming ořezávání, zastřihávání
lopping ořezání branches
irrigation system zavlažovací systém
maintaining údržba
sweeping
fertilizing
raking
composting
mowing lawns
weeding beds
cleaning and repairing and maintaining gardening tools
growing and caring and arranging plants
keeping garden neat and tidy
watering and fertilizing plants
planting and taking care of plants
preparing garden beds
removing weeds
caring for lawns
doing soil analysis
designing gardens
horticulture zahradnictví (nauka)
play with children - https://www.englishwsheets.com/gardening-tools-6.html