Hydroponics
Did you know that the best basil in the world comes from Genoa, Italy – and the best tasting crop that chefs remember was from 1997? So that’s the microclimate that Square Roots simulates in their shipping container hydroponic gardens. The company, co-founded by Kimbal Musk (Elon’s brother), is part of the urban farming, real food and sustainable agriculture movements. Hydroponic systems grow leafy greens in vertical stacks, drip fed by liquid nutrients with little water, no soil, no weeds and no chemical pesticides or herbicides. If there is a pest infestation, they just simulate a Mohave desert climate. Ingenious.
— Wayne Visser
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