Vertical farms promised to reduce the distance traveled and environmental impact of food to get from farm to plate – and in doing so offer consumers fresher, more nutritious options and retailers ...

Your next package of lettuce could be coming straight outta Compton. Last week, I toured a 100,000-square-foot indoor vertical farm operating in a gritty part of Compton, California. The urban farm ...

The re-emergence of AeroFarms Inc. from Chapter 11 and BrightFarms partnership with Element Farms, both announced this week, could help reassure those who are skeptical of the economic viability of ...

CLEBURNE — Inside a bright greenhouse about an hour outside Dallas, workers in hairnets and gloves place plugs of lettuce and other greens into small plastic containers — hundreds of thousands of them ...

CLEBURNE, Texas — Inside a bright greenhouse about an hour outside Dallas, workers in hairnets and gloves place plugs of lettuce and other greens into small plastic containers — hundreds of thousands ...

Indoor strawberry grower Oishii closed a $134 million funding round on Wednesday, allowing the company to break into new markets despite challenges facing the once-hot vertical farming sector. New ...

Indoor vertical farming became economically viable when LEDs became plentiful, cheap and efficient. Before that, indoor growing lights produced enormous amounts of heat - heat mapping was frequently ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Inside a nondescript computer lab at the University at Buffalo, a new tech-savvy style of indoor farming is blossoming. Lettuce and basil are growing inside a phonebooth-sized ...

A new study challenges the universal land-saving claims of vertical farming, finding that there is no one size fits all approach for land use, food security and sustainable agriculture. Faced with ...

One of the world’s most high-tech indoor vertical farms is located in Compton. We visit to understand the role indoor farming plays in the future of food. The background: Compton was once an ...