Novella Carpenter’s 2009 memoir, Farm City, trumpets the value of raising chickens, pigs and bees—in Oakland. Urban farming is a response to a variety of pressures.

The future of what community-focused urban life can be like is here, and you can visit when you stop by this Tennessee ...

When cultivated in a commercial vertical farm equipped with a multi-layer LED automated hydroponic growth system, the slga20ox1 mutant saved space occupation by 75%, achieving a 38–69% fruit ...

With its modular, space-efficient design, Opollo Farm is a fully automated vertical farm that uses advanced robotics to boost local food supply and deliver harvest-ready crops in as little as 15 days.

Despommier's pet project is the "vertical farm," a concept he created in 1999 with graduate students in his class on medical ecology, the study of how the environment and human health interact.

The idea is to grow cotton in vertical farms, and keep spinning mills on the site of the farms, to cut out emissions from transport. “We believe we’ve got a solution for cotton, but it will need to ...

Synergies from the vertical farm also contribute to the holistic sustainability concept. As a new building block embedded in a newly designed urban neighborhood, the Vertical Farmhouse will serve as a ...

Plenty has announced the opening of a new indoor vertical farm in Compton, California, designed to grow up to 4.5 million pounds of leafy greens annually.

US-based vertical farming company Oishii has opened its new 237,000-square-foot vertical strawberry farm in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. The new plant, named Amatelas Farm, is adjacent to Oishii’s ...

Vertical Harvest’s plan for the facility there is to produce 2.5 million pounds of fresh, leafy greens every year. Because the plan is to go from farm to fridge within 24 hours, that would avoid a 30% ...

Dubbed the Jian Mu Tower, the 51-story building will be wrapped in a vertical hydroponic farm. Mr. Ratti has estimated his plan could yield enough produce annually to feed 40,000 people.