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"Experts say the size of the vertical farming market is expected to quadruple over the next five years to nearly $4 billion."

Indoor Farming Industry Is Growing Fast In vertical farms, plants are grown indoors. Each set of plants is stacked on another. Workers control the climate and closely monitor each plant’s growth. Vertical farm supporters say the methods are good for the environment, and good for the world’s growing population.

There are so many ways to make farming and growing food more efficient. We love hearing about the innovative methods people are using.

Drones, Data and Insects: How Innovation Can Make the Food System More Sustainable THE BLOG Drones, Data and Insects: How Innovation Can Make the Food System More Sustainable 05/31/2016 04:44 pm ET | Updated 2 hours ago Peter Lehner Senior Attorney, Earthjustice Ag tech is booming, and it has the potential to redefine how and where we farm, including on fish farms like this one. (...

These tips could help keep your plants healthy.

Why You Keep Killing Your Plants and What to Do About It Did you know a cactus could droop? I didn’t until I killed one. Some plants are hardier than others, but if you’re anything like me, the only plant that survives under your thumb is an artificial one. Habitual plant killers, here’s where we go wrong.

Home gardening just went mainstream.

Ikea to introduce cute countertop hydroponic garden kit The indoor gardening system with a Swedish accent will help you grow your own lettuce and herbs year round.

"The modern horticulturist is now required to be an engineer"

Brains not brawn- Gardening is a profession that's vital to the future of our planet -... Horticulture is such an exciting profession to join. These days the role of the horticulturist is vast, and one I feel the average man/women in the street does not appreciate. Gardeners are no longer those people who are of limited intelligence or social outcasts that can’t keep a job, or are not…

Researchers are hoping to study how different levels of metals in the soil (specifically space soil) affect the safety of various plants for human consumption.

How can food grown on Mars boost food security on Earth? Dutch researchers have launched a crowdsourcing appeal for a project that will analyse the safety and nutrient content of food grown on Martian and lunar soil - and the findings could prove useful for life on Earth too, they say.

There are so many ways to reuse shipping containers. Indoor farming is one of them.

Farm in a box: Shipping containers reused for fresh produce Freight Farms and other indoor agriculture companies are looking to meet the growing demand for high-quality, locally grown and sustainable produce by farming fruits and vegetables in non-traditional spaces such as warehouses, industrial buildings and containers. The company says its Leafy Green Mac…

"if every city on earth were to grow 10% of its produce indoors, it would allow us to take 340,000 square miles of farmland back to forest. That, in turn, could absorb enough carbon dioxide to bring the level in earth’s atmosphere back to where it was in 1980."
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Will Programming Plants Feed the World? - Techonomy By 2025 food shortages could be a thing of the past. Cultivating plants indoors could feed 8 billion–and enable new foods via "programming plants."