Vertical farming, a type of indoor agriculture where crops are grown stacked in layers, has been expanding in fits and starts since the late 1990s. As the technology has improved, more large-scale ...

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 ...

This undated photo provided by Walmart via Plenty, shows the Plenty Farms South San Francisco grow room. Plenty says its vertical towers can grow multiple crops on one platform with consistent flavor ...

Bowery Farming has introduced a new line, Farmer’s Selection, and its first green is a tangy mustard “frill.” By Florence Fabricant At Bowery Farming, a company that has very little to do with the ...

AeroFarms confirmed the US-based vertical-farming business is “continuing to operate” after securing new funds from an ...

(TNS) — Jesse Fenn leaned over a row of young lettuce sprouting in neat formation like a farmer crouching over a field of produce — only Fenn's field extended 25 feet below him. Fenn stood atop a ...

As our population grows, we're going to need a lot more farms to feed the planet. Yet, in a lot of places, farming is almost ...

When I was a carefree lad watching Lost in Space, the Robinson family’s high-tech hydroponic garden sounded neat. Now I worry that the science-fiction program sowed seeds that are taking us too far ...

As supply chain issues and inconsistent crop yields intensify, large vendors look increasingly to the evolving field of indoor farming to supply produce. On Sept. 28, Forward Greens — an indoor farm ...

Just six days before Christmas, workers at a $17 million vertical farming plant in Ringwood, Virginia, heard shocking news.

For years many have wondered if vertical farming is the answer to food shortage in the world. Industrialisation and urbanisation is reducing arable land that would be utilised for food production.

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