This is Vertical Harvest. Sitting on half an acre of land, it produces as much food as an equivalent 250-acre farm. That’s a 500 times more efficient use of land than traditional farming. But if vertical farming is so great, why isn’t it more popular? And where and
To live, people need food to eat and water to drink. That’s a simple fact. But with growing water scarcity around the world and an ever increasing population, we have to find better ways to produce the food we all need to survive. The solution could lie in one
Among the many environmental crises that society must deal with over the coming decades, two stand out as particularly troublesome: plastic pollution and food waste. There may be a way to solve both problems at once: turning our rotting food into biodegradable, compostable plastic. This would be no small feat,
Off the coast of Noli, Italy there is a garden growing 25 feet below the ocean. Nemo's Garden is an experiment is sustainable agriculture. They have six plastic biospheres that are testing aquaculture by growing basil, strawberries, lettuce, and other leafy greens, which have a team scuba divers
Startup food company Vow Food is using bioengineering to grow meat in cleanroom environments. Vow believes that the future of meat is, instead of plant based protein, lab grown meats. These meats in the future could become household names. Vow currently has a quail like meat product that they formed