Roughly two hours pass between my initial email and our first Zoom chat — on a Sunday, no less. I skip the post-gym shower and pop on a baseball cap, because I’m not sure when the opportunity will ...

It's not an art installation; it's rotisserie lettuce plants, going around and around inside a vertical farm, in the middle of downtown Jackson, Wyoming. This little tenth-of-an-acre plot produces 100 ...

Gartenfeld Island, in Berlin’s western suburb of Spandau, was once the bellows of Germany’s industrial revolution. It hosted Europe’s first high-rise factory and, until World War II, helped make ...

Last week, TechCrunch ran my TC-1 about Bowery Farming. What began as a piece about a heartily financed New York startup ballooned into an exploration about an emerging field with a rich and ...

What is vertical farming? It is an agricultural practice of vertically growing food on an inclined surface. I have heard the term and considered vertical farming to be more for urban populations and ...

In perhaps the most public airing of his views and ideas to date, Dickson Despommier wrote an op-ed for Sunday’s New York Times about his “vertical farms” concept. In February, Hamida Kinge conducted ...

Space-saving, low-input, pest-free: vertical farming is often regarded as a solution to many of conventional agriculture’s woes. But the findings of a new study draw a question mark over its prospects ...

Indoor vertical farming has been around for quite some time, but leading companies in this industry are starting to garner a great deal of attention from the business press even as investors have ...

December 2018: GV (Google Ventures) invests $90 million in Bowery Farming. As someone focused on climate change investing, it’s hard not to take note of the scale of capital flows into private ...

Last month we reported that a huge vertical farming operation near Copenhagen in Denmark recently completed its first harvest. That setup uses hydroponics, but the veggies grown in Vertical Field ...

Between 2008 to 2009, it seemed like every architecture proposal you saw was a vertical farm, or at least had a tuft of greenery somewhere on the facade. And in the meantime, Disckson Despommier, a ...