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Links WORLD ORGANIC NEWS in the Australian Podcast Awards Click here Why Vertical Farms Fail | The Urban Vertical Farming Project http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-eqj Orchard understory – Mortal Tree http://wp.me/p5Cqpo-eq8 **** This is the World Organic News for the week ending 13th of March 2017. Jon Moore reporting! This week we begin with some soul searching and self analysis from the blog The Urban Vertical Farming Project and their post: Why Vertical Farms Fail. This is an unusual post as it is brutally honest. It is therefore, extremely useful. It is a summary of a panel discussion which you can find by following the link in the show notes.   There are three main points the post brings to light: 1) If you can’t sell it, don’t grow it! 2) Focus on trying to do one thing well and 3) scissor lifts and why they don’t work.   Let’s look at these one at a time. If you can’t sell it don’t grow it! This is certainly the case when the growing system is seeds in one end and food out the other. Knowing your market is essen