Plant owners with a so-called green thumb often seem to have a more finely tuned sense of what their plants need than the rest of us. A new "smart lighting" system for indoor vertical farms grants ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vertical farming may be an effective way of boosting the local food supply but it isn’t feasible as a municipal operation, city councillors were told.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...