Shreyas Insights

The agricultural challenge Right now, humanity has a big challenge to solve. Our population is growing that we need to feed. However, traditional agriculture is feeding the world at the expense of important ecosystems. The big challenge is, how do we feed a growing population without endangering natural ecosystems?  In this post, we will be talking about vertical farming. So, what is vertical farming? What is vertical farming?  Vertical farming is basically farming plants vertically, but why would you do that? Think of this, how many books are in your library? You'd probably say that is impossible, but you can walk through you library and not be exhausted, right? So how can a library store so many books in one building? It's because they store books on shelves, right? That's basically what vertical farms are trying to do, except with crops. Vertical farming is indoors so unlike agriculture that  happens outside, you can precisely control the conditions your crops grow in....

  What are prairies? Prairies are a type of North American grassland with different grasses and flowers. The types of grasses are quite hardy and can survive harsh winters and more. Prairies have little trees around.  At the border of prairie and forest, there is a constant battle going on. Tree saplings start invading prairie but then fire comes and pushes the forest back. Before Christopher Columbus, prairie was as far south as Louisiana and as far east as Pennsylvania. It was because the Indigenous people of the Great Plains eliminated forest competition using fire. In turn, there was more bison so they had more food.  Keystone prairie species Bison are one of keystone prairie species as they graze on grass and keep it from overgrowing. Prairie dogs come with the same benefit and also they are prey for lots of animals. With out both of these species, a prairie would die out. Their decline After Columbus' discovery, colonization of North America happened and N...