Vertical Farming: Growing fast!

Vertical Farming has been in and out of the news for a decade now. It used to be regarded as just another way to squeeze extra money out of wealthy hipsters looking for a cool new lifestyle product to tell their friends about. But massive cost reductions in renewable technology combined with some serious advances in technological efficiencies have brought vertical farming closer to the mainstream and now the big money is wading in to invest in these facilities in every major city around the world.



ERRATA : Hi Folks – as many of you have pointed out, I made a mistake when I said that Ultraviolet lights are used in vertical farms. In fact, it is not ultraviolet light - that would burn the plant. It's a mix of red and blue light, which is the part of the light spectrum that the plant absorbs. My apologies for this error.


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Research Links


Met Office Food Insecurity Projection Chart
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/food-insecurity-index/

Growing Underground - London UK
http://growing-underground.com/


Sky Greens - Singapore
https://www.skygreens.com/about-skygreens/

Kalera - various US states
https://kalera.com/

Aero Farms- New Jersey
https://www.borntoengineer.com/new-jersey-host-worlds-largest-vertical-farm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKGZp5ftpoE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_tvJtUHnmU&t=1s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGcYApKfHuY

Aero Farms - Danville, Virginia
https://aerofarms.com/2019/12/11/aerofarms-announces-build-out-of-largest-farm-of-its-kind-in-the-world-in-danville-virginia/

Plenty - San Francisco
https://www.intelligentliving.co/vertical-farm-out-produces-flat-farm/
https://www.plenty.ag/our-produce/

Local Root - Los Angeles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-1tBWDHcQs
https://www.facebook.com/LocalRootsFarms/

Square Roots (Kimbal Musk) - New York & Michigan
https://squarerootsgrow.com/

Bowery Farms - New York
https://boweryfarming.com/

Badia Farms - Dubai, UAE
https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/environment/how-fruit-and-vegetables-grown-in-vertical-farms-could-soon-be-on-plates-in-water-scarce-countries-across-the-middle-east-1.745021

Nordic Harvest - Denmark
https://www.zmescience.com/science/denmark-just-opened-a-huge-vertical-wind-farm-and-it-could-be-a-sign-of-things-to-come-globally/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Crrpo7Gpmk

Sananbio - China
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Startups/Chinese-startup-gets-in-on-ground-floor-of-high-rise-farms
https://www.sananbious.com/vertical-farming
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2wgEZg1vTdRHiQqDjafc3w

Stacked Farms - Australia
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/stacked-farms-vertical-farm-2020-6

Shoots Microgreens - Wellington, New Zealand
https://www.shoots.co.nz/
https://www.igrow.news/igrownews/new-zealand-vertical-farming-takes-off-in-former-wellington-nightclub

Rodi Vertical Farm - Kenya
https://vertical-farming.net/blog/2019/08/28/rodi-kenya-vertical-farming/

Growing fruit and veg in vertical farms
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/the-produce-company-that-supplies-google-hqs-kitchen

Growing Wheat in vertical farms
https://earther.gizmodo.com/vertical-farms-could-grow-all-the-wheat-we-need-but-at-1844521193
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/32/19131

If you are a vertical farming company and you're not on the list of links above, my apologies - let me know at daveb@justhaveathink, and I'll add your details.

Dr. Jonathan Foley Article
https://globalecoguy.org/no-vertical-farms-wont-feed-the-world-5313e3e961c0

Green Biz Article
https://www.greenbiz.com/article/vertical-farming-industry-growing-deeper-roots


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