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 ...
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 ...
The word “farm” might conjure up images of vast swaths of land covered by endless rows of crops. A vertical farm might conjure up images of scientists inside laboratories wearing starch-white lab ...
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 ...
Nestled between massive nondescript warehouses housing a concrete factory and a roofing plant in Compton, Calif. sits a massive 100,000-square-foot farm with the potential to put out more than 2 ...
In an old paper company and warehouse building, machines are whirring again. But instead of reams of paper pressed and cut, this warehouse is home to Area 2 Farms, which now pumps out greens, herbs ...
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, ...
China is really getting into vertical farming, and it’s pretty exciting to see. With cities growing like crazy and the need ...
AeroFarms works to provide quality vegetables with minimal impact to the earth. Normally when we think about farms on the side of a road, we might imagine acres of land, crops and livestock roaming on ...