According to the report, the restricted crop portfolio remains a major barrier to the technique’s global adoption. Vertical farming is well-suited for leafy greens, herbs, and microgreens, but is less ...

Global demand for food is expected to increase 58–98% by 2050. But can our current agricultural systems support this change? These farms are grown in buildings within or adjacent to urban areas.

A long-empty Loop landmark is on track to swap copy machines for leafy greens. Farm Zero and investor Marc Calabria plan to convert the mostly vacant building at 401 S. State St. into a mixed-use ...

Local investor Marc Calabria and vertical farming firm Farm Zero are partnering on the project to create a ...

It's not an art installation; it's rotisserie lettuce plants, going around and around inside a vertical farm, in the middle of downtown Jackson, Wyoming. This little tenth-of-an-acre plot produces 100 ...

Agriculture is one of the oldest human activities, and adapting it for climate change will require nothing short of a radical shift. Vertical farming — growing plants in controlled indoor environments ...

Indoor vertical farming has been around for quite some time, but leading companies in this industry are starting to garner a great deal of attention from the business press even as investors have ...

Along Utah’s Highway 68 in the small community of Elberta, Utah stands an industrial dome. Inside is a futuristic collection of stacked shelves, towering 25 feet tall, that systematically flicker with ...

In a Kirkland QFC, herbs and greens are growing inside what looks like a big refrigerator lit with soft purple light. On a rainy Saturday afternoon in late February, Shae Stanley handed out samples.

Lettuce farming in a modern hydroponic vertical farm which uses only 1% of water a normal soil based farm would require. What are the benefits of vertical farming? originally appeared on Quora: the ...