Former office buildings are thriving as indoor farms as demand for office space drops, reports Vittoria Traverso for BBC.

In some cities, as many as one in four office spaces are vacant. Some start-ups are giving them a second life – as indoor ...

Office-to-farm conversions not only provide a new purpose for empty buildings, but they also address another challenge that ...

“The successful ones in our industry have really tried to look two, three, four, five years ahead not just in terms of building out greenhouses or vertical farms, but really understanding where ...

An additional benefit is the low-cost rehab required to retrofit an existing building to accommodate the vertical farm. There is a giant upside, especially when one considers the growth potential.

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Eden Grow Systems, a NASA spinoff, also announced last year it would be transforming part of the historic Niels Esperson Building into a vertical farm.

“The world is asking farmers to fight climate change by reducing tillage and planting cover crops,” says Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal field agronomist. “Governments want you to adopt vertical ...

The partnership is already in action, with NuLeaf integrating Just Vertical’s systems into a fully operational farm at the ...

Vertical farms, often located near urban centres, minimise transportation costs and ensure that fresh produce reaches consumers quickly, reducing storage time and waste. The potential for vertical ...

Those early vertical farms (the first attempts actually date ... Still, Mr Fischer's objective is to prove the business case here before building bigger units elsewhere, in countries with much ...