home farming will be the hot new trend

Influx Insights — 2008-02-21T16:12:49Z

With food prices going out of control and everyone in recession mode, are we all going to start growing our own?

Will chickens soon be heard all over suburbia?

Will we be abandoning our lawns and growing wheat?

Obviously, this is a little OTT, but there's certainly something going on out there.

The desire to take control of your own food supply and to bring costs down is strong.

There's certainly a business opportunity here for brands who can bring out the farmer in all of us.

However, this being the C21st, we aren't so good at the heavy lifting side of the farming business, we want things to grow on our own terms, not theirs.

We need crops that are in tune with our way of life and deliver what we want and need.

In short, we need designer crops.

Of course, they are already here and appearing on your television set. These tomato plants look positively scary. These tomatoes were certainly created in a laboratory and it appears if they aren't controlled, they could easily take over the burbs.

Posted by Ed Cotton

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home farming will be the hot new trend