Surging demand for safe, locally produced fresh vegetables is prompting investors and young entrepreneurs to plant indoor farms that are reaching consumers through some of the nation’s largest retail ...

BALTIMORE — The next big thing is here, all girders and concrete pads, glass roofing and gravelly dirt. Viraj Puri, co-founder of one of the nation’s largest indoor farm companies, walks through the ...

To learn more about this innovative coffee-growing technique, I chatted with T. Shane Johnson, Founder of Big Guns Coffee.

Communities across the U.S. need to protect their food supplies against natural disasters. In Florida alone, the Tampa Bay Times reported that agricultural losses from Hurricane Ian could reach $1.9 ...

Discover how precise soil temperature management can revolutionize indoor farming, enhancing crop yields and reducing water ...

One of the world’s most high-tech indoor vertical farms is located in Compton. We visit to understand the role indoor farming plays in the future of food. The background: Compton was once an ...

Never heard of indoor farming? That's about to change. Cincinnati-based 80 Acres Farms is in the middle of an expansion that will triple the size of its current Spring Grove location on Este Avenue ...

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 network of caves in St. Louis, Missouri, was once used for brewing beer before the advent of refrigeration. Now, the conservation organization World Wildlife Fund is interested in helping the city ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about food tech and science. As automation and data collection processes become more common, they are affecting more areas ...

Lettuce grows in rows stacked on top of each other and bathes under strips of LED lighting at Nebullam in Ames, Iowa. Vertical farms stack rows of plants on top of each other. Those indoor farms ...