Communities across the U.S. need to protect their food supplies against natural disasters. In Florida alone, the Tampa Bay Times reported that agricultural losses from Hurricane Ian could reach $1.9 ...

Surging demand for safe, locally produced fresh vegetables is prompting investors and young entrepreneurs to plant indoor farms that are reaching consumers through some of the nation’s largest retail ...

BALTIMORE — The next big thing is here, all girders and concrete pads, glass roofing and gravelly dirt. Viraj Puri, co-founder of one of the nation’s largest indoor farm companies, walks through the ...

To learn more about this innovative coffee-growing technique, I chatted with T. Shane Johnson, Founder of Big Guns Coffee.

CLEBURNE — Inside a bright greenhouse about an hour outside Dallas, workers in hairnets and gloves place plugs of lettuce and other greens into small plastic containers — hundreds of thousands of them ...

Bowery, which began distributing produce just under two years ago, is opening a new farm and ramping up its output by 30-fold. Around two years ago, the then 10-person team of Bowery, an indoor ...

One of the world’s most high-tech indoor vertical farms is located in Compton. We visit to understand the role indoor farming plays in the future of food. The background: Compton was once an ...

Never heard of indoor farming? That's about to change. Cincinnati-based 80 Acres Farms is in the middle of an expansion that will triple the size of its current Spring Grove location on Este Avenue ...

Lettuce grows in rows stacked on top of each other and bathes under strips of LED lighting at Nebullam in Ames, Iowa. Vertical farms stack rows of plants on top of each other. Those indoor farms ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about food tech and science. As automation and data collection processes become more common, they are affecting more areas ...