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Urban and rural biological sustainable Agriculture,
green roof and living walls installations.
Greening the cities, Providing Food Security and minimising the city
greenhouse footprint. Skyfarms Australia's ethos Skyfarms is engaged in helping to
generate urban renewal by bringing large
scale food production into the city. Eliminate food miles, excess packaging, cold storage and delivering freshness
and vitality in high quality food. Skyfarms systems are locking in a modicum of food security for the urban dwelling
populations of our world. In 2008 resources to the rural production sector increased in cost by approximately two
thirds in as little as four months, this has given rise to many in that sector of our national community giving up and
loosing faith.
In reality they simply became unsustainable due to outdated production
systems, conventional agriculture became economically imposable to run as of mid 2008. It will not take many
more price rises to impact greatly on the availability of food to the average family.
Through holistic planing and implementation of the skyfarms systems we are developing ways to
cut costs and deliver better quality food into the mouths of our future, our children. For information on Skyfarms urban-agriculture contact us
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| 1000 ltr tank & pump.Rrunning a trial Nth Qld, no water source, no grid power & no clearing of bush |
2007; United Nations statisticians have stated, as a race
we will have to increase our overall food production by over 110% within the next 10 years, this is one of the greatest challanges
we will ever face in an increasingly unstable environment.
| Skyfarms & Natraponics are trademark registered |
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| Natraponics module can be fitted with it's own plastic & shade house no outer structure needed |
Natraponics systems are modular and stand alone. Requiring no grid power to set up or run, they
harvest there own water and within 1 day of installation are put to work for food production.
The
systems we have developed over the past 20 months are modular in design. We have achieved this using of the shelf components,
and in most cases a team of 6 can install 10 hectares of systems in 3 days with no earthworks and generate
no negative environmental impact. We require no grid power and in most cases can harvest our water directly
from the atmosphere.
our
systems are perfectly at home on top of a skyscraper in the middle of a megalopolis or in the middle of an environmental or
human disaster zone.
10
hectares of systems can produce approximately 6.5 tonnes of fresh produce per week, they also produce usable
power.
Depending
on the humidity or condensation potential, we can even produce potable water where there was non prior.
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Our
mission
Is for
Skyfarms to generate safe, sustainable systems to grow food, while eliminating harmful and unnecessary inputs.
Our Goals
To become large volume, producers
of raw food of the highest quality, able to face the difficulties of the future, including times and situations of war flood,
drought and earthquake. Ultimately delivering life opportunity to those unable to fend for them self, due to situations of
extreme hardship, natural or military imposed. We believe everybody needs something, & if given the chance has something
to give.
Sustainable Certification
Before
large scale food production comes back into the city, we must be very careful not to invite any of the associated herbicides,
fungicides, hormones that are so prevalent in the rural agricultural areas of most countries.
This
is the reason why Skyfarms Australia are spearheading the push to generate and implement Sustainable standards for urban
agriculture including development of methods to include Organic certification for natraponics soil based systems.
We
believe the goal of sustainable certified safe food production will be seen before the end of 2009.
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| Skyfarms natraponics module , note the standing wall unit under construction |
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Go anywhere disturb nothing agriculture
These systems have been
designed to allow quick assembly not only for rooftop implementation into a skyfarm but also into refugee camps, and environmental
disaster areas. They are designed to be put together in minutes to create an integrated system of one module or upwards
of 100 hectares and be creating safe fresh food within 4 weeks of arrival without electricity connection and without
need of major earth works, in the most difficult of environmental situations.
By adding fish to the system plate sized fish can be harvested within 5 months.
Why will agriculture return to the city?
Growing food in the city for the city will eliminate....
Food miles, excessive fuel usage in the growing and
transport of food over long distances, minimise long term refrigeration storage and on farm packaging delivering further increments
of sustainability to the world.
To make
use of some urban wastes, and ensure continuing food supply to the cities, facilitate minimisation of the cities greenhouse
footprint and to create a more peaceful aesthetic environment for the most important part of the city, its inhabitants.
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There is nothing certain in an uncertain world and so in the times of
great change all we can really do is our best to hang on and keep our eyes open.
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