Farming of the Future: Feeding Everyone in the 21st Century

Sunday, October 23, 2016

Urban farming
SCC Global Affairs Center presents: Farming of the Future: Feeding Everyone in the 21st Century 

Tuesday, October 25, 12:30-1:20pm, Room 9208, Shoreline Community College, 16101 Greenwood Ave N. (campus maps and parking info). Small fee for daytime parking.

Nicholas Begley, Graduate Student, University of Washington Bothell and Shoreline Community College graduate, 2014 presenting.

Traditional images of agricultural have barns, farm animals, irrigation equipment, and most important, big fields. These images will continue to dominate discussions of agriculture.

But indoor agriculture, or urban farming, is exploding. Consumer demands for food grown closer to where it is consumed, a growing concern about food system security, the steady pressure of population growth have all contributed to finding new ways, using technology, to grow food.

Along with new technologies will come new ways of thinking about agriculture and food

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