Food Crisis, Drought and Vertical Farms

CBC: Food Crisis, Drought and Vertical Farms

Climate scientists will tell you droughts and other extreme weather events is the new normal. One way or another, farming needs to adapt to a new reality. A possible solution is vertical farming. Imagine taking a bunch of greenhouses, stacking them one on top of each other, and plunking it down in a city. Once dismissed as an expensive and unrealistic idea, vertical farms are now cropping up around the world, but huge challenges still face the young industry. Day 6 producer Dominic Girard looks into this growing food trend. Click "Read More" for all kinds of info related to this story.

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  1. I saw a vertical farm once but it was designed different from this illustration. This vertical farm was build more like a wall with rows of grow chambers running up the wall. This made it easy for a all the plants to benefit from the sunlight.

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