They promise local produce, responsibly grown. Do they deliver? There are big pluses to vertical farming, the most fundamental of which is its verticality. Traditional horizontal farming is ...

Five-plus years after the publication of Dickson Despommier's book The Vertical Farm: Feeding Ourselves and The World in the 21st Century, his dream — originally conceived as the production of ...

Vertical farming, which utilizes vertically-stacked layers of crops grown in climate-controlled facilities, utilizes significantly less water and soil than traditional agriculture. Increasingly we ...