If we could farm on our roof tops, Wouldn't It Be Cool (WIBC)?
The Hola Harvest Demo farm at the WIBC incubator at 1 Fox The Wouldn't it Be Cool (WIBC) incubator at 1 Fox street in Joburg City is an urban agriculture initiative involved in greening the inner city in Johannesburg. Due to the obvious lack of land in the city they use Hydroponic systems, where mainly leafy greens and herbs are sown in a growing medium which anchors the plant and the system continually input nutrients and water for the plant. A-Frame Hydroponic system growing spinach Hydroponics cuts harvest time in half because the growing environment is controlled. No erosion of soil of leaching of nutrients. Organic insecticides have to be used as the demo farm incorporated different plants. The whole process does not require a lot of labour and only requires one person, at the scale that we were exposed. Water is circulated in the system and changed out one monthly, therefore the system is not labour intensive. The system also uses little energy in the form
