The last hundred-plus years have brought a lot of change for the U.S. and the world as a whole.  Agriculture strategies, however, maintain an inertia long outpaced by the human population boom.  You don’t have to look far into the future to see the logical conclusion to this is bad for everyone.  Actually, you don’t have to look into the future at all.

The real issue is delivery, not scale.  Giving ‘more’ to food crops for growth and taking ‘more’ land to do it has kept most of us fed, thus far.  If instead we addressed ‘how’ we were feeding crops and ‘where’, we might all be getting fed, and using fewer resources to do it.

If you give a baby a spoon and enough open jars, you can be sure some of the food will get swallowed.  But then, why would we do that?  A solution to this, at least for human food crops, is to grow hydroponically, well, aquaponically, and you grow it in urban greenhouses.  Delivery of food and water goes directly to the plant’s roots and crops get delivered directly to the consumer, where they live - where you live.