Sundrop Farms Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 17 Oct 2016 19:19:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Australian Desert Farm Uses no Freshwater, Soil or Fossil Fuels to Make Food https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sundrop-organic-farm-desert-australia-20161017/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sundrop-organic-farm-desert-australia-20161017/#respond Mon, 17 Oct 2016 19:19:36 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=60665 Sundrop Farms produces healthy, sustainable food in the middle of the Australian Desert, without using pesticides, fossil fuels or fresh water. The scarcity of food resources in many parts of the world is one of the major population threats. Agricultural lands deplete continuously, as climate change and inappropriate agricultural practices cause intense soil degradation and […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sundrop-organic-farm-desert-australia-20161017/feed/ 0 60665 World Food Crisis Solved By Desert Farming? https://www.greenoptimistic.com/world-food-crisis-solved-by-desert-farming-20121130/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/world-food-crisis-solved-by-desert-farming-20121130/#respond Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:29:27 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=29078 Dreamed up and designed by a 62 year old London theater lighting engineer and led by a 33 year old German former Goldman Sachs banker, Sundrop Farms in Port Augusta Australia is growing food in the desert. Sundrop Farms is beyond the experimental stage and has successfully produced agriculture in an environment usually hostile to growing much […]

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