Aeroponic farming can feed the planet

What with our burgeoning global population growth, the need to feed all of us — especially those in Third World nations — is of concern on a planetary scale.

Aeroponic farming is the technology of growing produce and plants in moist air. No soil is needed, nor vast quantities of water as in hydroponics. Aeroponic farming produces a product that is disease- and pesticide-free. The system is inexpensive and stackable, and any unused nutrient mixture is reusable.

We seem perfectly able to exchange technology on weapons. We stick our noses into everyone’s business and tell them how to run their governments. Like ours is perfect?

If we are so concerned about these folks, why not share a process that will fill their tummies and give them independence from dependence upon handouts from other nations?

This old planet has only so much to give. Aeroponic farming can save us water, space, and produces over and over again. Why do we keep cutting down the forests to make room for more agriculture? As water becomes scarce, why waste so much of it on acres of fields? Feed the children of the world? No problem, if we would just stop putting so much energy into convenient techo-gadgets, and more into sustenance.

LAURIE WADKINS

Priest River