Growing up: indoor warehouse farms make inroads

Growing food crops indoors, in tiers under LED lights, is making inroads in Snohomish County.

Vertical farming, also known as controlled environment agriculture, can transform a business park warehouse into a high-tech farm.

Cannabis producers have cultivated indoors and under the lights, illegally and legally, since the 1980s and the advent of hydroponic systems.

Now, those methods are gaining traction as a means to produce food.

At least two companies that employ vertical farming to grow greens have taken space in the county.

Infarm, a German company, established an indoor growing center at an Everett business park three years ago.

And next year Soli Organic, based in Virginia, plans to open a vertical farm in a warehouse at the Cascade Industrial Center in Marysville.

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Source: msn