Think about the lettuce on your plate. Chances are, it traveled about 1,500 miles to reach your fork.In the US, lettuce ...

Over 20 vertical farming companies have come together to commit to the development of a sustainable food system - and a sustainable controlled agriculture industry. With money pouring into the sector, ...

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 ...

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According to new research out of Scandinavia, vertical farming has a ‘mixed sustainability performance’, often requiring more energy than field agriculture. Given the dramatic rise in energy costs, ...

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In perhaps the most public airing of his views and ideas to date, Dickson Despommier wrote an op-ed for Sunday’s New York Times about his “vertical farms” concept. In February, Hamida Kinge conducted ...

Roughly two hours pass between my initial email and our first Zoom chat — on a Sunday, no less. I skip the post-gym shower and pop on a baseball cap, because I’m not sure when the opportunity will ...

Last week, TechCrunch ran my TC-1 about Bowery Farming. What began as a piece about a heartily financed New York startup ballooned into an exploration about an emerging field with a rich and ...