Updated Nov 21: 750 acres in the title was a typo; the correct number is 720 According to Nate Storey, the future of farms is vertical. It's also indoors, can be placed anywhere on the planet, is heavily integrated with robots and AI, and produces better fruits and vegetables while using 95% less water and 99% less land.

Greenhouses and solar panels both need to be placed in areas with a lot of sunlight - so why not combine the two? Semi-transparent solar cells could potentially be built into the glass roof panels of greenhouses, capturing light at wavelengths that plants don't use anyway. Now, researchers at North...

Less than two years after its launch, the indoor agriculture startup Bowery has raised $90 million in funding led by GV (formerly Google Ventures). The New Jersey-based company will use the funding to open multiple vertical farms in new cities by the end of 2019.

In the kale-filled facility at vertical farm startup Bowery Farming, it's a piece of proprietary software that makes most of the critical decisions -- like when to harvest and how much to water each plant. But it still takes humans to carry out many tasks around the farm.

It's difficult to buy local greens, year round, as very few local farms have that ability. Altius Farms provides a dependable, year round, supply that offers culinary, health, environmental and economic benefits. CROPS