I propose that we move some of our key, high financial return crops onto specially outfitted boats and grow them there. And yeah, I call it boat farming.
I don't know what the appropriate depth you need for say, citrus trees (like the ones recently ravaged by a freeze causing billions in loss), is, but I have to believe you could design a boat with a green house type structure and enough soil to make it work. You could even grow mushrooms in the lower levels.
This would be extremely beneficial since you could take the boat where the weather was nice, you'd have a constant supply of water (if you could figure out a way to get rid of the salt) and how effing cool would a floating farm be?!? I realize this isn't exactly a "farm" but whatever, boat farming is a sweet name.
I recognize this would be expensive, but we need to start thinking outside the box to satisfy our food needs. It might not even be financially viable. But that citrus thing really hit me. I mean, those farmers had zero options. The trees were growing, the freeze was coming...and they were screwed.
The boat farm could even stay docked unless weather dictated it be moved. Hence saving money.
The one thing I can't figure out is how to manage all that salty air...but that's what scientists are for!
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I think we should take it one step further, and do not just mushushrooms below but create an entire ecosystem on the boat farm. Like you created out of 2 liter bottles when you were in 5th grade? plants at the top, followed by well-drained rock which feeds into a pond for aquatic life... the fertilizer the fish add to the water means it can be fed to the plants again, helping supplement the (probably involved) desalinated water.
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