All About Vertical Farming

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Interested in more information about Vertical Farming? Below are a list of links to more information about Vertical Farming, some industrial Vertical Farm companies, inventions in support of Vertical Farming and news stories. Have you seen something interesting on the topic? Please share it below.

About Vertical Farming

The Association for Vertical Farming

An internationally active nonprofit organization focusing on advancing Vertical and Urban Farming technologies, designs and businesses. Members of the Board Maximilian Loessl and Henry Gordon-Smith will be serving as Judges of final submissions and consultants to Challengers.

The Vertical Farm

Dickson Despommier, Ph.D. spent thirty-eight years as a Professor of Microbiology and Public Health in Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia; author of The Vertical Farm – The origin of a 21^st Century Architectural Typology

Industrial Vertical Farms

In the Midwest of the United States

Green Sprit Farms - http://www.greenspiritfarms.com/
Green Sense Farms - http://greensensefarms.com/
The Plant Chicago – www.plantchicago.com
FarmedHere – http://farmedhere.com

In the Netherlands

Plant Lab - http://www.plantlab.nl/

In Singapore

Sky Greens – http://skygreens.com

In Japan

Japan Gandpa Dome - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_WuJ9P1u-k

News Stories

This Indoor Farm Can Bring Fresh Produce to Food Deserts

WIRED - ISSIE LAPOWSKY

ALMONDS GOT THE brunt of the bad press, but they hardly deserve all the blame for California’s water woes. Sure, it’s worth considering how to minimize your water footprint, and forgoing your daily handful of almonds in solidarity with the parched earth couldn’t hurt. But considering how widespread the water crisis is, and the fact that agriculture is responsible for 80 percent of the country’s water consumption, the more crucial question to be asking now—particularly on Earth Day—is what can be done to fundamentally change the way our food gets made?

Why Vertical Farming Could Be On The Verge Of A Revolution ...

Huffington Post

Could the future of modern agriculture be found completely indoors?

That’s the question on the mind of Caleb Harper, the research scientist behind the CityFARM project of MIT Media Lab’s City Science Initiative.

Vertical Farms Will Be Big, But For Whom?

Fast Company

In a windowless warehouse just outside of Chicago, where today’s forecast is for below-freezing temperatures, Green Sense Farms grows leafy greens and herbs all year around. They sell their bounty—protected from insects, disease and brutal winters—to grocers like Whole Foods and some local restaurants. Green Sense grows their soil-free produce (they use coconut husk instead) in indoor growing towers. Beneath 30 foot ceilings, rows and rows of produce are stacked and CO2 levels, water, lighting, and humidity are precisely controlled.

Vertical farming: A hot new area for investors

CNBC

One of the most promising fields in agriculture these days entails growing crops indoors in layers, stacked in racks, in existing underutilized warehouses or multi-story buildings.

Kickstarter Inventions

Grow Up! Vertical Farming for Everyone 160 backers pledged $28,926 to help bring this project to life.
Brand New Windowfarms- Vertical Food Gardens 323 backers pledged $36,270 to help bring this project to life.
Vertical Harvest of JH: A Growing System for Change - 323 backers pledged $36,270 to help bring this project to life.

Article explaining this conveyor system that takes plants for a ride in front of windows

Turn our cities' windows into vertical veggie farms! 231 backers pledged $28,205 to help bring this project to life.

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