(November 13, 2012 at 4:47 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Yep, alot of that sort of thing was pioneered most visibly University of the Virgin Islands (they have a little issue with regards to fresh water). A domestic (US based) operation called S&S Aqua Farm took it bigtime..making a killing off basil (of all things) until the market was flooded by foreign basil following the passage of NAFTA (crashed the market to 4$ a pound)..making their model unprofitable. They switched gears to agri-tourism and consulting at that point. More recently integrated agriculture got another spot in the limelight with The Freshwater Institute that funded and operated a test site based around shut in gas well heated greenhouse production. It's my dream system (and the reason I moved to Kentucky). I've got the whole report if you're interested in that sort of thing........even includes the design specs and product codes for manufacture, operational costs...issues they ran into, projected (and actual) margins of profit...it's exhaustive...public domain ftw bitches!
(still working on gettig the next big post up..lots of math...lol)
Yeah man, I would be interested in trying to understand that report.
"shut in gas well heated" <--wat?I am more interested in mushrooms but maybe there would be something in the report that might line up with mushie production.
I work at Intel right now and it would be hard to replace my income with some other venture; but in my mind I am a time factory, as an employee, and I only turn out one unit per hour and can't sell all the units that I produce per day. In short I am looking for some method of production that would allow me to multiplex that method to increase my income and decrease the amount of work I would have to put in. I don't know if agriculture would be technical enough to hold my interest but I suppose that would depend on the method used...
