RE: Beautiful24 Apr 2026 19:03
LST are alright, lights to grow food over winter, soft fruits and salad. I love them, and pick as much wild whilst I can and freeze them, as do supermarkets whilst suppliers last. There's an US vertical agriculture firm called Oishii that packages strawberries like posh chocolates, farms with robotic arms and expensive computer tech. "Sustainability" for them is making a profit after investment with a tech that is very smart, hideously expensive, and seems only useful on planet Mars. LST is not quite like that, simpler methods, and in light of the potential nowadays for global catastrophic climate change, famines, and mass migration crises, is a vital tech with greater utilitarianism.
Got a kid down the road, Ed's Veg - member of international peasant movements like Via Campesina and Scottish Crofters Association - who rents polytunnels off a farmer to grow veg and a load of us locals yank pest bracken off our common (allows heather and invertebrates, birds to return), which he uses as a compost. People flock to work there. I've told him about the lights.
So I wish GC well, lot on his plate. His heart in is the right place. Even better if our caps are all over the sensors.