"The one place where the future farm made perfect sense.
Founding a lunar colony is an exercise in "get the job done and hang the cost". For colonies, you need people and people need air. To recycle air on a barren desert like the moon means growing plants and that means you need farms even if soy burgers that come at the same prices as a slice of fried gold at Maxim's in Paris. So, you need to develop Moon farms, because without them you're reduced to tiny outposts or praying that you can find ice mines somewhere at the poles. Really big ice mines.
Oh, and you get food as a dividend."
via davidszondy.com
