According to the report, the restricted crop portfolio remains a major barrier to the technique’s global adoption. Vertical ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Picture growing fresh lettuce, herbs, and tomatoes in the heart of New York City, London, or Tokyo – not in traditional soil-based farms, but in sleek indoor towers that stack plants from floor to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vertical farms are back in the news, with Sean Williams writing in Wired that vertical farms nailed tiny salads. Now they need to feed the world. Treehugger has been following this subject and has ...

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 ...