i notice that leafy produce requires ponderous amounts of water to grow. i wonder, is there any way to reduce this high water usage? perhaps if we install solar panels over the growing patches of leafy greens as a shade to reduce water evaporation, we could decrease overall water use.<\/p>\n
if successful, we probably could extend our experiment to different vegetable\/fruit farms. perhaps the farmers could even make a little extra cash by generating electricity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
i notice that leafy produce requires ponderous amounts of water to grow. i wonder, is there any way to reduce this high water usage? perhaps if we install solar panels over the growing patches of leafy greens as a shade to reduce water evaporation, we could decrease overall water use. if successful, we probably could…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4917,4896,4910,4891,4904],"tags":[2685,2686,54,2688,2689,10,2690],"storyfest_categories":[],"class_list":["post-13537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-food","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","category-water","tag-cabbage","tag-dual-use","tag-farmers","tag-lettuce","tag-piggyback","tag-solar-energy","tag-strawberry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n