now on bbc news, this week s travel show comes from tarifa, this week on the travel show, i m in tarifa, in spain, where it s definitely the windier the better as i check out the big air kitesurfing competition. oh my god, that was so good! i loved it. we are getting artsy in southern turkey for the mardin biennial. and tick, tick, boom we go behind the scenes at boomtown during the countdown to the opening of this year s festival in the heart of the english countryside. hello, and welcome to the travel show, coming to you this week from beautiful tarifa, in southern spain. perched on the southernmost tip of continental europe, just 1a kilometres from north africa, tarifa is the gateway between these two continents. its position leaves the small spanish town open to a blasting from the winds that shape its rugged coastline. in this part of the world, there are two prevailing winds. one is the mellow, consistent poniente wind and the other one is this bad boy, the levante, w
This week. Food, glorious food. Fake kippers and burgers. We are in the mood for pink herbs and green motors. This is salad, grown the Old Fashioned way. You know, in shipping containers, under led lights, without soil, in an optimised water and nutrient mix. As farmer spock called it, good old hydroponics. In all seriousness, its been suggested that the type of intense farming going on here at local roots in los angeles could help solve the worlds Food Problems in years to come. Transport costs can be reduced by growing plants wherever they are needed, even in areas of famine where the land and climate are too harsh. You get higher volumes and many more crop cycles during the year, too. Lettuce can be grown in 30 days instead of up to 90 outdoors, and a new crop can be grown immediately. All in all, one of these containers yields the same as five acres of land over the course of a year. Its very similar to the Strawberry Farm that we saw in paris in the spring and in Miyagi Injapan in
This week. Food, glorious food. Fake kippers and burgers. We are in the mood for pink herbs and green motors. This is salad, grown the Old Fashioned way. You know, in shipping containers, under led lights, without soil, in an optimised water and nutrient mix. As farmer spock called it, good old hydroponics. In all seriousness, its been suggested that the type of intense farming going on here at local roots in los angeles could help solve the worlds Food Problems in years to come. Transport costs can be reduced by growing plants wherever they are needed, even in areas of famine where the land and climate are too harsh. You get higher volumes and many more crop cycles during the year, too. Lettuce can be grown in 30 days instead of up to 90 outdoors, and a new crop can be grown immediately. All in all, one of these containers yields the same as five acres of land over the course of a year. Its very similar to the Strawberry Farm that we saw in paris in the spring and in Miyagi Injapan in
This week. Food, glorious food. Fake kippers and burgers. We are in the mood for pink herbs and green motors. This is salad, grown the Old Fashioned way. You know, in shipping containers, under led lights, without soil, in an optimised water and nutrient mix. As farmer spock called it, good old hydroponics. In all seriousness, its been suggested that the type of intense farming going on here at local roots in los angeles could help solve the worlds Food Problems in years to come. Transport costs can be reduced by growing plants wherever they are needed, even in areas of famine where the land and climate are too harsh. You get higher volumes and many more crop cycles during the year, too. Lettuce can be grown in 30 days instead of up to 90 outdoors, and a new crop can be grown immediately. All in all, one of these containers yields the same as five acres of land over the course of a year. Its very similar to the Strawberry Farm that we saw in paris in the spring and in Miyagi Injapan in
This week. Food, glorious food. Fake kippers and burgers. We are in the mood for pink herbs and green motors. This is salad, grown the Old Fashioned way. You know, in shipping containers, under led lights, without soil, in an optimised water and nutrient mix. As farmer spock called it, good old hydroponics. In all seriousness, its been suggested that the type of intense farming going on here at local roots in los angeles could help solve the worlds Food Problems in years to come. Transport costs can be reduced by growing plants wherever they are needed, even in areas of famine where the land and climate are too harsh. You get higher volumes and many more crop cycles during the year, too. Lettuce can be grown in 30 days instead of up to 90 outdoors, and a new crop can be grown immediately. All in all, one of these containers yields the same as five acres of land over the course of a year. Its very similar to the Strawberry Farm that we saw in paris in the spring and in Miyagi Injapan in