“We want to make cheap food for people who live close to the sea,” says Pinsky. The floating farms would be extensions of the city, existing solely to provide produce.

Some vertical farms grow greens in old warehouses, former steel mills, or other sites set apart from the heart of cities. But a new series of projects will build multistory greenhouses directly ...

Crop One Holdings, a Silicon Valley food startup, and Emirates Flight Catering (EKFC), one of the world’s largest airline catering operators, plan build a 130,000-square-foot vertical farm in Dubai.

Patented Crop Motion Technology™ moves plants to one layer of LED grow lights, unlike typical rack and stack layouts of other vertical farms that use multiple layers of energy-intensive LEDs.