{"id":21484,"date":"2018-12-03T04:09:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T04:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Abandoned-coal-mines-across-the-UK-could-be-brought-back-to-life-as-huge-underground-farms-according-to-academics"},"modified":"2018-12-03T04:09:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T04:09:39","slug":"abandoned-coal-mines-across-the-uk-could-be-brought-back-to-life-as-huge-underground-farms-according-to-academics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2018\/12\/03\/abandoned-coal-mines-across-the-uk-could-be-brought-back-to-life-as-huge-underground-farms-according-to-academics\/","title":{"rendered":"Abandoned coal mines across the UK could be brought back to life as huge underground farms, according to academics."},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Originally shared by Judah Richardson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abandoned coal mines across the UK could be brought back to life as huge underground farms, according to academics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mine shafts and tunnels are seen as &#8220;the perfect environment&#8221; for growing food such as vegetables and herbs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The initiative is seen as a way of providing large-scale crop production for a growing global population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Advocates say subterranean farms could yield up to ten times as much as farms above ground.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-wales-46221656\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-wales-46221656<\/a><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Abandoned coal mines across the UK could be brought back to life as huge underground farms, according to academics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-21484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sff-thought-starters","tag-mike-reeves-mcmillan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}