Check out The Plant, Chicago’s first entirely self-sustaining “vertical farm.” The Plant occupies a former meatpacking plant and slaughterhouse in the Union Stock Yards, transforming a huge brick building that once specialized in bringing red meat to the masses into a green space all about urban farming without waste. The interior that looks like something [...]

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What if supermarkets grew veggies in their own rooftop greenhouses, instead of shipping them in from California and beyond? Think of how that could bring us the freshest, tastiest produce, and vastly reduce long distance trucking of perishable items? That’s the idea behind New York-based BrightFarms. We grow for taste, not for shelf-life, and we [...]

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