Greenland - Future Agricultural Paradise?
Tuesday October 30, 2007
Farmers and researchers in Greenland are beginning to have success growing vegetables on the large island north of sixty degrees latitude. Thanks to increasing temperatures in Greenland, the New York Times reports that, "A Greenlandic supermarket is stocking locally grown cauliflower, broccoli and cabbage this year for the first time. Eight sheep farmers are growing potatoes commercially. Five more are experimenting with vegetables. And Kenneth Hoeg, the region’s chief agriculture adviser, says he does not see why southern Greenland cannot eventually be full of vegetable farms and viable forests." I suppose Greenland's blooming agricultural activity ought to be added to the list of advantages of global warming.
Comments
Yay Greenlanders get to grow Veggies. Meanwhile the Russians take over the North Pole and more and more land turns into desert yay global warming!
Matt, I believe you had an article a few months back that says that last summer there were direct flights to Greenland from Baltimore about twice a week. It’s good to know that the scientists and other researchers will get to have fresh vegetables while on their assignments! It seems that the Vikings left too early (as written about by Jerrod Diamond in “Collapse”).
hopefully when the low islands r covered those inhabitants then can move to greenland. cool
Greenland will finally be able to live up to its name!
I’m not sure why we are surprised about Greenland. If you read the book 1421, based on a documented Chinese expedition that year, the author talk about the Chinese described Greenland as lush and fertile. That was 586 years ago.
This is part of a cycle for Greenland - some times cold and icy; others fertile. That’s why it was called Greenland