Lewis Farming Co

Farming at Dululu for 100+ years

This Farm of the Future Uses No Soil and 95% Less Water

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Watch the next episode about San Francisco becoming a zero waste city: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3OA1s8-SI&list=UUJsSEDFFnMFvW9JWU6XUn0Q
As urban populations continue to rise, innovators are looking beyond traditional farming as a way to feed everyone while having less impact on our land and water resources. Vertical farming is one solution that’s been implemented around the world. Vertical farms produce crops in stacked layers, often in controlled environments such as those built by AeroFarms in Newark, New Jersey. AeroFarms grows a variety of leafy salad greens using a process called “aeroponics,” which relies on air and mist. AeroFarms’ crops are grown entirely indoors using a reusable cloth medium made from recycled plastics. In the absence of sun exposure, the company uses LED lights that expose plants to only certain types of spectrum. AeroFarms claims it uses 95% less water than a traditional farm thanks to its specially designed root misting system. And it is now building out a new 70,000 square foot facility in a former steel mill. Once completed, it’s expected to grow 2 million pounds of greens per year, making it the largest indoor vertical farm in the world.

For more on AeroFarms: http://aerofarms.com/

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Farm safe, live safe

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Farm manager Matthew Sherwood talks about the work health and safety challenges of managing a farm and his reasons for being safe.

Indonesian Beef

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Jakarta is committed to building its national beef herd as its moves towards reducing its reliance on imports both on the hoof and in a cardboard carton. The ABC’s correspondent Matt Brown has been assessing what impact this policy will have on the Indonesian beef business including those who import cattle from Northern Australia, fatten and process them.

How Grains Domesticated Us, James C. Scott, SOAS, University of London

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Food Studies at SOAS http://www.soas.ac.uk/foodstudies/
This SOAS Food Studies Centre Distinguished Lecture titled “How Grains Domesticated Us” was given by James C. Scott (Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director of the Agrarian Studies Program, Yale University) on 11 December 2014.

How is it that homo sapiens came, only in the last 5% of its long career on the planet, to live in concentrated heaps of people, grain, and domesticated animals and, later, governed by units we call states?

How were these earliest structured and governed? How did they persist (or perish) and how did they change the landscape and people they controlled? It is surely striking that virtually all classical states were based on grain, including millets. History records no banana, cassava, sago, or sweet potato states. Why are the grassy grain crops—typically barley, rye, wheat, rice, maze, and millets—so closely associated with the earliest states? My guess is that only grains are suited to concentrated production, tax assessment, cadastral surveys, storage, and rationing.

Find out more about this event http://goo.gl/E2a8pl

A Q&A session was held the day after this event, you can find it at http://youtu.be/V3tzE2i–dA

Beenleigh Historical Village and Museum – REVIEWS – Logan, Qld Early Australia Reviews

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Reviewed: ★★★★★ Beenleigh Historical Village and Museum is a top reviewed Early Australia village and museum in Logan, Qld. This video shows some of the excellent reviews and testimonials that have been offered by their happy visitors. (Real reviews by real visitors).

For more information you can visit them at:

199-205 Main Street
Beenleigh QLD 4207
(07) 3382 0608
www.BeenleighHistoricalVillage.com.au