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 ...

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

In a reclaimed industrial building on the shore of Lake Michigan, crops of leafy greens are stacked 20 feet high and grown year-round with no soil or sunlight. Artesian Farms opened in New Buffalo in ...

Production technician Amanda Martinez, plants basil as she works in vertical green house farm at Eden Green Technology, on Thursday, March 6, 2025, in Cleburne. Walls of carefully spaced herb and ...

Indoor vertical farms are expanding across the country. It still costs more to raise produce inside than out, but prices are dropping, and some indoor farms are profitable. Yields can be up to 350 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. For growing food, the sun is yesterday’s technology. Soil? As quaint as an iPod. Such ...

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 ...

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 ...

That future seemed one step closer to reality last year when San Francisco-based indoor farming startup Plenty, which grows a variety of salad and leafy greens hydroponically (without soil) and uses ...

One of the world’s most high-tech indoor vertical farms is located in Compton. We visit to understand the role indoor farming plays in the future of food. The background: Compton was once an ...