These high-tech VF grow 350 times more food
Added on 14 February 2023
Plenty sees towering walls of greens, fed with bright LEDs and nutrient rich water while being monitored by attentive computers and robots, as “a whole new field of farming” capable of addressing unsustainable agricultural practices, food deserts, and the threats that a changing climate presents to our food systems.
The company’s pesticide-free greens use a small fraction of the land and water that more traditional farms take up. In fact, Plenty says that an acre of its vertical growing system yields 350 times more produce than a conventional farm’s acre would, all while saving a million gallons of water per week throughout the entire complex.
Right now Plenty offers lettuce, baby arugula, baby kale, mizuna, and bok choy that can be bought online, in certain stores, or at a select few restaurants.
Photo: Vertical farming, high-tech, indoor farming. Courtesy of Plenty
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