Walls of carefully spaced herb and lettuce plants rise to the ceiling of a massive greenhouse. Inside Eden Green Technology’s 62,000 square foot vertical greenhouse, over 340,000 plants are stacked 18 ...

A Columbia microbiologist, he popularized “vertical farming” — raising crops in tall buildings — to remediate climate change and feed more people. By Trip Gabriel Dickson Despommier ...

That’s changing as fears about climate change come into focus. There are various vertical tillage systems — conventional vertical tillage, one-pass-and-plant vertical tillage, no-till and ...

Farmers today face many challenges from high overhead costs and low commodity prices to the threat of climate change that may ...

A major issue for farm workers has been heat-related exhaustion and deaths, and though vertical greenhouses are touted for being climate controlled, some workers in these spaces have faced ...