Vertical Farms Fill a Tall Order

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No longer a futuristic fantasy, vertical farms are raising their profile. The pandemic’s disruptions of supply chains have shown why it’s helpful to grow some crops within urban towers.

The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted agricultural production and supply chains around the world. Farmers have often struggled to get their food to distant markets, and sharp shifts in demand have repeatedly forced them to dump crops. Avoiding such logistical problems is one of the chief advantages of vertical farms, a new approach to agriculture that aims to grow food closer to population centers.

Over the past 10 years, hundreds of such indoor farms have sprouted up around the globe, mostly in the larger cities of industrialized...

 

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Rea Food is grown in sunlight, with nutrient dense soil, chemical and glyphosate free..........this is frankenfood, no thanks.

turn urban blight into vertical gardens in skyscrapers, move populations to villages scattered across landscape, connected by high speed trains, use cities for food production, restaurants, art, culture, education. Dedicate land for homesteads as factory farms turn to forest.

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Farmers evolving 🥳

Good repurpose for NYC and their empty office buildings..

Innovation happens.

Michael Hough predicted this :)

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