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 ...

AeroFarms secures short-term funding to continue operations and delay closure of its Danville indoor vertical farming ...

As our population grows, we're going to need a lot more farms to feed the planet. Yet, in a lot of places, farming is almost ...

AeroFarms confirmed the US-based vertical-farming business is “continuing to operate” after securing new funds from an ...

AeroFarms, an indoor vertical farming company and a leading supplier of microgreens to the U.S. retail market, today announced that the company is continuing to operate and supply microgreens to ...

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 ...

Estimates show that the agriculture industry produces over 6.4 billion tons of greenhouse gases annually. This amounts to approximately 8.5% of the world’s yearly emissions. With the continuously ...

Vertical farms are back in the news, with Sean Williams writing in Wired that vertical farms nailed tiny salads. Now they need to feed the world. Treehugger has been following this subject and has ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Seven billion humans need farms that cover a land mass equal to South America, but tomorrow's farmers may need even more space to grow food for hungry mouths. Such urgency has given root to ...

Over the past nine years, Dubai-based Pure Harvest Farms has made food production in harsh environments scalable. AeroFarms turned itself around after bankruptcy. Is it a sign that vertical farming ...