Nov19,2023
Up-cycled from a shipping container with a greenhouse on the top, the farm produces talipia in the container, and in the greenhouse over 400+ salads and herbs are grown using modern day vertical farming techniques.
Roughly half the size of a football pitch (25,000 square foot) the farm is capable of producing 10,000 lettuce heads every day.
One of the main challenges represented in vertical farming is the need for uniform distribution of natural light to allow even growth of vertically farmed plants.
Over a bowling alley in Brooklyn a 15,000 square foot roof is harvesting herbs and vegetables for the City’s population
Sky Greens is one of the first commercial vertical farms in the world, producing bok choy and Chinese cabbages, grown inside 120 slender 30-foot towers.
Growing Underground is using an abandoned underground line that has been hired from Transport for London, at present only a small part of the farm is operational but there is the potential for 2.5 acres of growing space to be utilised.
Located above it’s headquarters office in Montreal, Canada is a 31,000 square feet greenhouse that is producing a wide array of vegetables, which is delivered to over 4,000 people in the local area every week.
The Farmery’s solution is to create an 8,000 square foot food market, that provides shopping on the ground level, while growing the produce on the upper level.
Urban Organics is a large scale indoor aquaponic farm which produces both fish and salad greens to shops and restaurants, whilst using just 2% of the water used in conventional agriculture