{"id":5012,"date":"2011-11-26T20:31:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T01:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5012"},"modified":"2011-11-26T20:31:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T01:31:06","slug":"ted-britta-riley-a-garden-in-my-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/26\/ted-britta-riley-a-garden-in-my-apartment\/","title":{"rendered":"TED: Britta Riley: A garden in my apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve dreamed of having a farm for a long time. I&#8217;ve even periodically looked at the prices of lands in different provinces, sketched what I could probably do with it, etc. In short it is one of those long time projects that I will do when I have the capital to spend. For now the knowledge is what I&#8217;m building up on.<br \/>\nOne of the realizations of this is that as long as the peace and order situation of a lot of undeveloped provinces outside metro manila is resolved farming on the classic sense is just not feasible. Most endeavors have a minimum viable size and the minimum viable size for a classic farm is the size that attracts rent seekers such as govt officials or the parallel govt in impoverished provinces the secessionist.<br \/>\nA few months back I read from Marginal Revolutions blog (If memory serves me right) that Sweden or at least European country you would least expect is a net exporter of food stuffs because its advanced chemical and electronics industry allowed it to go into hydrophonics in a big way. I filed this under study for your farming dreams and also under the fuck if we only had competent leaders we would probably be exporting food again.<br \/>\nWhile watching this TED talk for some reason tears were coming, I&#8217;ve probably been very happy these past days and to see something like this wow, TG. Damn I&#8217;ve been very lazy lately. This is only the beginning.<br \/>\n<object width=\"460\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YhvfOlPYifY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve dreamed of having a farm for a long time. I&#8217;ve even periodically looked at the prices of lands in different provinces, sketched what I could probably do with it, etc. In short it is one of those long time projects that I will do when I have the capital to spend. For now the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/26\/ted-britta-riley-a-garden-in-my-apartment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TED: Britta Riley: A garden in my apartment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,79,83,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol","category-reposts","category-science","category-ted"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}