Could vertical farming change what local food means? Person looking up at shelves in a vertical farm. Many Americans have become accustomed to plentifully stocked grocery stores, with uninterrupted ...

The Plenty Richmond Farm is designed to produce more than 4 million pounds of strawberries annually in a space smaller than a single acre. This impressive yield is achieved through cutting-edge ...

Production technician Amanda Martinez, plants basils as she works in vertical farm green house at Eden Green Technology, on Thursday, March 6, 2025, in Cleburne. Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer ...

A team of scientists in Singapore has uncovered powerful new evidence that vertical farming — growing food in stacked and often indoor, controlled environments — could radically change how we feed the ...

Think about the lettuce on your plate. Chances are, it traveled about 1,500 miles to reach your fork. In the US, lettuce travels about 1,500 miles (2,414 km) to get from farm to fork. That journey ...

By 2050, the world will need to produce about 60% more food to feed a global population of more than nine billion people.

It’s peak strawberry season in Massachusetts. But after mid-July, you won’t be able to find any fresh, locally-grown ones in the Bay State. Unless you’re buying berries that were vertically farmed.

Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS), a leading vertical farm technology provider, has secured £22.5m (€26.3m) in Series C funding to support significant global expansion. The announcement comes after ...

Vertical farms produce more food with fewer resources and less waste by delivering dense crop yields from stacked growing layers in controlled indoor environments. When most of us think about farming, ...

As land, water, and stable climates get harder to rely on, farming the old way starts to look fragile. Vertical farming flips the model—bringing crops indoors, stacking production upward, and putting ...

Vertical farming has come under fire in the past, with opponents blasting its high energy usage and cost. So, will new findings to mitigate these drawbacks, silence the critics? The modern concept of ...

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 ...