Vertical farming

This is a learning resource about vertical farming. Research, learning, and teaching related to vertical farming can be organized here. Perhaps in the future, open source designs for vertical farms can be developed. Vertical farming can potentially help to eliminate poverty on Earth.

Discussion questions

• To what degree could vertical farming help to eliminate hunger on Earth?
• Could designs for vertical farms that are open source help to accelerate adoption of the technology?
• Can vertical farming be profitable with current technologies?

Videos

• Meet Infarm: The $1 Billion Vertical Farm Platform
• Urban Vertical Farming: Growing Rice And Fish In A CIty Like Singapore

Readings

Wikipedia

Vertical farming Controlled-environment agriculture Building-integrated agriculture Controlled Environment Agriculture Center Urban agriculture Roof garden Seascraper

Organic engineering systems Organic hydroponics Hydroponics Digeponics Grow light PI curve Hydroponic dosers

Ultrasonic hydroponic fogger Passive hydroponics Greenhouse Dickson Despommier Aeroponics Aerial root Arcology Foodscaping Association for Vertical Farming

See also

Domestic house food production system Low-Cost Precision Farming Food security Worm farming Futurology Aquaculture

Coffee Farming Rainwater harvesting Portal:Water Technologies Drones/Agriculture Organic agriculture

Sustainability Portal:Agriculture Horticulture Forestry Portal:Agricultural engineering Agriculture papers Agronomy#Agriculture

Hydrology Ecological sustainability Low-cost, tropical, private food production system Plant growth promoting bacteria Wiki business plan/Feed Everyone Project Introduction to Permaculture Hydroculture

Open source vertical farming

• Grow Stack
• MIT Open Agriculture Initiative
• Hectar

• Hectar Vertical Farm Plans

Learning links

Videos

• Kasveista - Open source seeds for Vertical Farming

Open source

• Open source hydroponics
• 3Dponics is an open-source initiative for the development of 3D models that are used to build efficient and affordable gardens!