Vertical farm cuts energy use 75 per cent by using sunlight

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Vertical farm cuts energy use 75 per cent by using sunlight
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Vertical farming has been touted as a more sustainable way to grow food, but it requires a huge amount of energy – adding in sunlight can drastically cut costs

Walking into the newest greenhouse run by vertical farming company Eden Green on the outskirts of Dallas, Texas, I am greeted by floor-to-ceiling walls of lettuce.

The greenhouse is warm, bright with sunlight and busy with workers tending to the more than 300,000 heads of romaine, butterhead and red oak growing in hydroponic pots., the company’s head grower, as he shows off the stringy taproots of a romaine almost …

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