Leafy greens budding inside a high-tech container farm could soon impact South Carolina’s agriculture industry, and it’s all ...

The industry was a darling of the venture capital world 10 years ago. With many farms out of business, the remaining companies have scaled back.

Seven shipping containers sit outside a South Carolina women’s prison. Inside four, amid the lights and fans, grow stacked ...

On a special episode (first released on November 20, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: AI applications in vertical farming have the potential to usher in a new model that not only yields a high volume of ...

The four-container farm operation will produce approximately 48,000 pounds of fresh leafy greens annually to service the prison's cafeteria and neighboring institutions.

In addition to supplying the women’s prison with fresh produce, the program housed within Camille Graham is aimed at teaching participants skills useful in the agricultural field.

A South Carolina women’s prison has become the first correctional facility in the country to grow its own food using a vertical farm.

Vertical farms produce more food with fewer resources and less waste by delivering dense crop yields from stacked growing layers in controlled indoor environments. When most of us think about farming, ...

Wander through the labyrinthine tunnels twenty feet beneath downtown Houston, and the past practically oozes from the walls. Office workers walk over pink-and-green speckled tiles. Steve Winwood’s ...

That sobering statistic means that, while climate change may be humanity’s biggest challenge, another daunting crisis looms alongside it: even if we manage to control the planet’s environmental ...

Explore sustainable agriculture: a farming approach prioritizing environmental health, food security, and social equity.

A rising global population means that maintaining viable agricultural space is one of the most pressing farming issues of 2023 and beyond. Vertical farming is growing crops indoors in stacked layers, ...