WellFarm aims to make hospitals and healthcare places much greener. It uses special indoor farms, called vertical farms, to ...

Plant owners with a so-called green thumb often seem to have a more finely tuned sense of what their plants need than the ...

According to the report, the restricted crop portfolio remains a major barrier to the technique’s global adoption. Vertical ...

For decades, moldboard plows, disks and field cultivators, all horizontal tillage tools, have been the go-tos for fieldwork. That’s changing as fears about climate change come into focus. Sooner or ...

The biggest challenge faced by the vertical farming industry is, without doubt, running costs. And it’s this that has led many, including Agricool and Glowfarms, to shutter. “One of the most commonly ...

If you walk into a grocery store in Dubai, the spinach on the shelves will probably be from Europe—or even from as far away as the United States. Because of limited arable land and water, the United ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Phil Lempert covers breaking news and trends in food and retail. Irving Fain is an indoor vertical farming pioneer who says, after ...

Think about the lettuce on your plate. Chances are, it traveled about 1,500 miles to reach your fork. In the US, lettuce travels about 1,500 miles (2,414 km) to get from farm to fork. That journey ...

Lettuce farming in a modern hydroponic vertical farm which uses only 1% of water a normal soil based farm would require. What are the benefits of vertical farming? originally appeared on Quora: the ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and local dignitaries were on hand Thursday in Bethlehem to celebrate the opening of Bowery Farming’s third and largest facility across its Mid-Atlantic footprint. Manhattan ...

Half of Bermuda’s arable land is going unused and contributing to problems with food scarcity on the island, an agricultural scientist said. Chris Faria, the founder of the AgraLiving Institute, added ...