Vertical Farming: The Future of Food?

Farming and technology meets romance. For decades, farming had been horizontal and separated from urban areas. Vertical Farming proposes creating high-rise-like farms to be filled top-to-bottom with plants.

The small, slender design means Vertical Farms could be placed in central locations in a city. The plants would subsist on a hydroponic system and could be harvested with relative ease. The idea is that Vertical Farms will cut down on emissions and transportation costs by bringing the farm inside the city. Hoever, critics have already voiced out the enormously large amount of water and energy needed to support Vertical Farms, also the fact that the farms may not actually save that much money compared to traditional, horizontal farms.
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Vertical Farming: The Future of Food

Vertical farming is a concept that argues that it is economically and environmentally viable to cultivate plant or animal life within skyscrapers, or on vertically inclined surfaces. The idea of a vertical farm has existed at least since the early 1950s and built precedents are well documented by John Hix in his canonical text "The Glass House".