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Amazing. This should be a useful tool in urban food self-sufficiency.
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When the new site gets up and running, Backhaus estimates that Podponics will turn out 40-50 tons of green per year, though with the newly available real estate, they expect to experiment with other crops, which may vary the total weight output. While they could continue to expand many times over within the bounds of their current location, they have designs on a different kind of expansion model.

"Our ultimate vision is to get 80-100 pods next to the Publix distribution center in Florida or the Walmart distribution center," says Backhaus, "so that we can harvest right there in the morning and plug it directly into their supply chain. We're mainlining fresh produce into the regional distribution network."

They are also talking with potential partners in the UAE and Germany, who are dealing with various resource limitations that make this model look appealing. For now, this is a Georgia business serving other Georgia businesses. And while you probably won't spot these shipping containers while visiting Atlanta, you're likely to spot Podponics lettuce on any number of local menus.
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In Vancouver, Wendy Waters (see http://allaboutcities.ca/stackable-affordable-fast-and-green-housing/) just posted something about using shipping containers for housing (not unknown here in Victoria, with Zigloo -- see http://www.zigloo.ca/index, right in the Fernwood neighbourhood), and presto-bingo, here's a post about using containers to create (one presumes and one hopes affordable) artists' workspaces! Yes, that would be welcome: someplace for the low-cash-flow creatives to live & work...

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