Vertical crops – the future? Vertical farms have great potential

Has mankind found a way to revolutionize farms and abandon vast fields to save space and energy? It turns out that vertical crops have great potential, because in vertical farms you can not only effectively grow everything you want, but also save on many fronts. The startup 80 Acres Farms is a great example of this.

By cultivating plants in vertical farms, resources and land are saved to a considerable level

Instead of a field stretching to the horizon, enjoying the eye with a golden field of cereals, vertical farms are hidden in containers, old warehouses or hangars. Instead of “one level of the ground”, you get a dozen or so of them, and so you can produce even hundreds of times more food for one acre of space. All this with better food care, significant water savings through recycling and reuse, and even some degree of automation with robots and artificial intelligence that oversee the crops.

Based in Cincinnati, USA, 80 Acres Farms uses eight of its vertical farms to deliver food to customers within a radius of up to 160 km to prevent food losses. This approach is not surprising, because the company does not use pesticides or GMOs, using only renewable energy, and if that was not enough, it gets the crop faster anyway.

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As the crops grow on these farms without soil, rain and sunlight, 80 Acres Farms use 97% less water compared to traditional farming. In addition, the company goes not in size, but in the number of its farms, wanting to provide more customers throughout the United States with access to fresh and ecologically produced food. When buying it in the store, we have to be sure that it was torn from the “bed” on the same day.