Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Phil Lempert covers breaking news and trends in food and retail. Irving Fain is an indoor vertical farming pioneer who says, after ...

Vertical farms promised to reduce the distance traveled and environmental impact of food to get from farm to plate – and in doing so offer consumers fresher, more nutritious options and retailers ...

Four years ago, the vertical farming startup Bowery opened what it called the first “post-organic” farm, growing pesticide-free leafy greens inside a warehouse in New Jersey. Now its products are in ...

A big bowl of leafy greens is not what pops to mind when you think about farming in Kuwait. In a region facing extreme water scarcity, Kuwait produces only 1% of its crops using traditional ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Inside a nondescript computer lab at the University at Buffalo, a new tech-savvy style of indoor farming is blossoming. Lettuce and basil are growing inside a phonebooth-sized ...

Your next package of lettuce could be coming straight outta Compton. Last week, I toured a 100,000-square-foot indoor vertical farm operating in a gritty part of Compton, California. The urban farm ...

Vertical farms have had successes producing fresh greens and herbs, tomatoes and strawberries—all necessary and delicious crops but not the most calorie-dense. That honor falls to cereals and grains, ...

Indoor vertical farming company Square Roots is rapidly scaling up its modular, smart-farms to address demand for locally-grown food. With the ongoing global climate threat and challenging economic ...

West Coast’s only commercial-scale vertical farm will grow up to 4.5M pounds of produce annually to supply partners including Bristol Farms, Walmart and Whole Foods Market COMPTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS ...

CLEBURNE — Inside a bright greenhouse about an hour outside Dallas, workers in hairnets and gloves place plugs of lettuce and other greens into small plastic containers — hundreds of thousands of them ...