Vertical Farming: The future of saving the planet?

Me’Cole Crayton
2 min readFeb 27, 2021

Vertical farming uses the structures like skyscrapers, warehouses and even shipping containers to implement the vertical layer stacking concept to grow and control food and medicines. Controlling factors such as minimal water usage, LED lights, hydroponics, climate and growth manipulation companies like Aerofarms, Plenty, and now bankrupt company Podponics. Learn from each other’s mistakes, by using AI to collect data, cut down on labor costs, equipment elimination and comparative pricing; but can it be enough to save the planets growing population by 2050?

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