{"id":27371,"date":"2016-06-14T10:16:38","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T14:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/?p=27371"},"modified":"2016-06-14T10:16:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T14:16:38","slug":"floating-dairy-farm-rotterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/floating-dairy-farm-rotterdam\/","title":{"rendered":"The (Floating) Future of Dairy in Rotterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Rotterdam. Home of striking skylines, exciting nightlife, enriching museums&mdash;oh, and a floating dairy farm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEating local\u201d can be a tall order in crowded cities, where there isn\u2019t exactly a surplus of space for farmers to do their thing. Grass needs room to grow, and it\u2019s often easier to just eat food that originates&nbsp;somewhere else. Peter van Wingerden, director of Netherlands property development company Beladon, has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcoexist.com\/3060221\/world-changing-ideas\/the-worlds-first-floating-urban-dairy-farm-will-be-built-in-rotterdam\" target=\"_blank\">solution<\/a>: Why limit farming to existing land?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/floatingfarm.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Floating Farm<\/a>, Wingerden\u2019s brainchild&mdash;inspired in part by the rapid decline in New York&#8217;s food supply after Hurricane Sandy&mdash;is, well, pretty much exactly what it sounds like. Expected to be completed in January of next year, the structure will float on the water and house 60 cows, each with about 160 square feet of space to herself. The dairy production will happen on board, and 15-20 percent of the cows\u2019 diets will consist of grass (carefully tested to ensure that it is healthy and rich in vitamins) grown on the farm.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FloatingFarm_1.2.jpg\" alt=\"FloatingFarm_1.2\" width=\"750\" height=\"406\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FloatingFarm_1.2.jpg 750w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FloatingFarm_1.2-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And Wingerden isn\u2019t stopping at taking charge of what goes into the cows&mdash;he\u2019s also got a destination for what comes out. The farm\u2019s floor will be permeable, and technology is in the works that will allow for the automatic separation of urine from manure, making it possible to then turn the manure into fertilizer as well as blocks to burn for energy.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t Rotterdam\u2019s first foray into creative food architecture. In 2014, the <a href=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/cheese-bites\/dutch-just-built-coolest-market-time\" target=\"_blank\">Markthal Rotterdam<\/a> came into being, spearheaded by Dutch design firm MVRDV to comply with a government ban on open-air meat and fish markets. The structure is a huge, dome-covered, not-quite-open-air market with glass panels enclosing both ends, and it features food, murals, and even apartment units. So the Dutch know what they\u2019re doing when it comes to designing ingenious spaces for food.<\/p>\n<p>Floating Farm could pave the way for similar projects elsewhere, which could mean a wealth of new possibilities for eating locally. The compact, sustainable future of dairy is rapidly approaching, folks, and it floats.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Photos courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/floatingfarm.nl\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">Floating Farm<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcoexist.com\/3060221\/world-changing-ideas\/the-worlds-first-floating-urban-dairy-farm-will-be-built-in-rotterdam\" target=\"_blank\">Fast Company<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Dutch property development company is hard at work building a floating dairy farm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":27561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"coauthors":[875],"class_list":["post-27371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cheese-bites"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.4 (Yoast SEO v24.4) - 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