Vertical farming has boomed and busted within a decade. We explore why many pioneers failed, why 80 Acres Farms survived, and ...

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

On a special episode (first released on November 20, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: AI applications in vertical farming have the potential to usher in a new model that not only yields a high volume of ...

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 ...

Picture a farm in Avondale growing leafy greens. Maybe you’ve imagined small plants swaying in the breeze alongside the road. But at one West Valley farm, the plants have never seen the sun. These ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Phil Lempert covers breaking news and trends in food and retail. Irving Fain is an indoor vertical farming pioneer who says, after ...

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 ...

A rising global population means that maintaining viable agricultural space is one of the most pressing farming issues of 2023 and beyond. Vertical farming is growing crops indoors in stacked layers, ...

When you shop at Walmart, Whole Foods and Target, you probably assume the greens you buy are grown on sprawling farms stretching across the great outdoors, that they only reach the indoors when they ...

Israeli-Dutch vertical farming start-up Future Crops is increasing output of its proprietary basil variety, developed specifically for cultivation in closed and controlled environments. Considered by ...