Could vertical farming change what local food means? Person looking up at shelves in a vertical farm. Many Americans have become accustomed to plentifully stocked grocery stores, with uninterrupted ...

The word farm was once equated with images of sun-kissed green fields in rural areas. That’s quickly changing. Not only are farms moving closer to urban areas, but they’re also getting creative in how ...

For decades, moldboard plows, disks and field cultivators, all horizontal tillage tools, have been the go-tos for fieldwork. That’s changing as fears about climate change come into focus. Sooner or ...

Nate Storey planted the seeds for Plenty Inc., a new leader in vertical farming. From its start as a student project at the University of Wyomng, Nate Storey's vertical farming enterprise has grown ...

Vertical farming was once so sexy that it tempted the likes of Natalie Portman, Lewis Hamilton and Justin Timberlake to join venture capital and private equity firms buying into high-tech facilities ...

Vertical farming companies must prioritize long-term planning, efficient unit economics and operational consistency to succeed as the industry faces challenges in capital allocation and a likely wave ...

While so-called urban agriculture has deep historical roots, as I described in a blog on this topic in October 2017, efforts to raise crops without full access to sunlight in a controlled environment, ...

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 ...

Wander through the labyrinthine tunnels twenty feet beneath downtown Houston, and the past practically oozes from the walls. Office workers walk over pink-and-green speckled tiles. Steve Winwood’s ...

Some consider vertical farming to be the farming of the future. It’s exactly what it sounds like; instead of being grown in fields, plants are grown indoors in vertical stacks. If you’re the type of ...