Building a defensible vertical farm is more than technology. By Deniz Ataman. 16-Nov-2023 Last updated on 16-Nov-2023 at 14:55 GMT. Image source: D. Ataman.

Jack Griffin, a Philadelphian who once wooed some serious investment for his idea of vertical farms for the city’s many abandoned warehouses, has now admitted to defrauding two investors out of ...

Vertical farms have emerged as a potential solution for problems as diverse as food insecurity, changing climates and urban renewal. Their economic viability, however, is in question.

While all vertical farms grow up, there’s a large variation in how producers set up their growing systems. Some grow in large greenhouses that receive natural light, while others take up space in ...

Plenty also has plans to build five farms in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates — where 80 percent of the land is desert — over the next five years to grow peak-season-flavor strawberries.

Walls of carefully spaced herb and lettuce plants rise to the ceiling of a massive greenhouse in Cleburne. Inside Eden Green Technology’s 62,000 square foot vertical greenhouse, over 340,000 ...

Jack Griffin said he was going to save the world.He told everyone — in interviews, on stage, and in a TEDx Talk — that ...

GLENS FALLS — It’s hard to imagine that 22 Ridge St., a three-story building that houses restaurants and beauty salons, would be a viable location for a farm.

One of the world’s most high-tech indoor vertical farms is growing leafy greens in Compton. ... The energy used to operate buildings results in more than a fourth of global carbon dioxide pollution.

An abandoned vertical farm in Braddock will be converted into a specialty manufacturing and cold storage facility under a plan being advanced by the building owner and a Boston firm that invests ...

A startup called Farm Zero wants to build indoor farms in downtown Chicago office buildings. The startup's 9,000 lease at 125 South Wacker Drive is its first long-term lease for indoor farming.

On the East Coast — in Westbrook, Maine — Vertical Harvest is opening a 50,000-square-foot hydroponic vertical farm in a six-story steel-and-glass building.