Greenhouses in Detroit? Possible?

abe supercro said:

Michigan doesn't get a whole lot of sun light hours. The UP gets even less. Also the costs of heating a GH would be prohibitive.
With a GH you would be dealing w the health dept and inspectors galore if you wanted to produce food. Just think about all that cheap warehouse space in Dtown. Medical could be how you finance your dream. Keep the big ideas coming.

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kindfarms420 said:

glad im in the process of starting my own greenhouse business not by detriot but more north and there are many ways to alternative heat.. you may need to add supplemental lighting in the winter but you really only have to run them for about 4 hours a day 2 hours before it gets dark and 2 hours after it gets dark you will NOT need supplemental lighting if your only growing leafy greens and herbs and stuff in the winter but for fruiting crops you will... one really cool thing i learned that if its sunny outside in the winter it can be in the negative degrees but inside a UNHEATED greenhouse at somepoint in the day it will get too hot in the greenhouse and thats when you take that heat blow it into a large "lungroom" that stores the heat then when the greenhouse is cold you take the heat from the "lungroom" and blow it into the greenhouse.. you can also take tubing under the garden beds from the "lungroom" and blow heat down under the ground to keep the roots and ground from freezing.. dont go hydro hydro veggies suck ass and if you can grow a plant you can produce just as much off something organic in soil.. good luck man

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abe supercro said:

What are the cool niche areas in Detroit that are being improved at this time?

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FatMarty said:

You need $10 million of liability insurance and a surity bond.
Or whatever they conjure up.

Point is the other flower growers already own that industry here and they are the Senator Jones of Michigan.
They want to grow all medical marijuana for michigan in ten greenhouse operations owned by their family and friends.
What we don't want are large scale operations that must be regulated tightly.
Unless you want to work for them.

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missnu said:

but a greenhouse on the roof of a building...problem with light blocking solved....but how do you "rent" someone's rooftop?

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FatMarty said:

When this law first passed there proposals in Lansing to take over the growing and regulate it.
Those paying attention learned that the players were all well connected greenhouse industry biggies.

Once you start asking them for large scale pot growing you lose control if they agree.

But none of that shit matters anyway - you can't even begin to fix Detroit with it's land mass of abandoned and vacant properties equaling all of the property of NYC and Phily.
The city has more abandoned and derelict property than most other American cities have property!


Therefore you need to segment it and enable 'settlers' to resettle it in some way.
You might be able to do something like that if you invested in clearing land and passed legislation to make it possible.
Immigrants are often the hardest workers - and it would require people that would work - they also feel safer among their own until settled.
Look at Dearborn now, or the Hamtramack of old, or any number of other ethnic or social communities if you disbelieve me.
I just think it would be more managable to create enclaves that are expected to exert local control rather than try to rebuild that cesspool in one feel swoop.

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