vertical farming

Picture this: someone’s growing strawberries in downtown Manhattan during a December blizzard, harvesting pesticide-free lettuce in the middle of the Sahara Desert, or producing enough food to feed a village using just a tiny fraction of the water that regular farms guzzle down. Sounds crazy, right? Well, vertical farming startups…

Vertical farming is flipping agriculture on its head, literally. Walk into one of these facilities and you’ll see crops stacked floor to ceiling, bathed in purple LED light, growing faster than anything you’ve seen outdoors. No dirt, no tractors, no praying for rain. Just pure, controlled growth that happens 365…