A Vacant Lot In Wyoming Will Become One Of The World’s First Vertical Farms [1]

Source: www.fastcoexist.com [2] | Original Post Date: February 23, 2015 –

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A unique conveyer belt design allows the three-story greenhouse to be efficient and sustainable, providing jobs and fresh produce to the Jackson community.

Jackson, Wyoming, is an unlikely place for urban farming: At an altitude over a mile high, with snow that can last until May, the growing season is sometimes only a couple of months long. It’s also an expensive place to plant a garden, since an average vacant lot can cost well over $1 million.

But the town is about to become home to one of the only vertical farms in the world. On a thin slice of vacant land next to a parking lot, a startup called Vertical Harvest [4] recently broke ground on a new three-story stack of greenhouses that will be filled with crops like microgreens and tomatoes.