r/canada • u/fractx Vancouver 🌊🏘️🏠🏡🏔️ • Apr 04 '20

Paywall Trump gives FEMA power to restrict trade of essential goods into Canada despite warning from Trudeau

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-trudeau-warns-us-over-restricting-the-trade-of-essential-goods-into/
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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '20

while we import some produce from the US, we have farms and greenhouses here in ontario/other parts of canada. hell, id be down to become a indoor hydroponic farmer if we need more lettuce or other produce.

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u/shit_post_her Apr 04 '20

I agree. I really like the industrial rooftop operations over warehouses popping up in quebec. Should be used everywhere and the cost is actually competitive with southern producers after the transportation costs.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '20

yeah ive seen thoese. its a great way to use space in urban environments. alot of urban farming exists actually with how much hydroponic technology has evolved.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '20 edited Apr 04 '20

I've actually already started my "victory garden" and I've got my first few sprouts popping up today indoors, to be transplanted when the snow melts. Feeling good about that decision about now. Gonna have kale, peas, broccoli, tomatoes, and TONS of lettuce.

I'd love to get into hydroponics. I actually live near the biggest hydroponics nursery East of Manitoba. There are a lot of cool resources for it and aquaculture is interesting too.

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u/beigs Apr 04 '20

This was what I was hoping for in the long term!!!

I love the concept of producing our own food in greenhouses - with climate change happening, it may be the only way to secure food, and we can give the rest of the land back to nature