What determines the profitability of a vertical farm is not the equipment or the crop varieties — it’s how the operation is run on the floor. I’m here to share ten years of honest, ground-level experience.
I’ve been working in vertical farming since 2011. Over ten years, at more than ten facilities. There is so much that never makes it into textbooks or onto the internet — things you only learn on the floor. This site is where I write about what I’ve seen, what I’ve struggled with, and what I’ve figured out along the way.
The main content is 172 Hints to Boost Your Vertical Farm Profitability (PDF, 394 pages).
Featured Articles
Why do major corporations enter the vertical farm business only to retreat shortly after? Drawing on more than 10 years and 10-plus sites, I share the real pitfalls and the perspective needed to get past them.
A two-season field trial from Iowa State University showed that vegetables can be grown under a commercial solar farm. From the standpoint of plant physiology, it is actually a very natural result: for many vegetables, direct sunlight is simply too strong.
Where should you build a vertical farm? In Japan, power costs and location tend to dominate the discussion. But in other parts of the world, vertical farms are chosen for entirely different reasons. This article organizes those regional patterns into four axes.
Vertical farming is technology-intensive, yet research findings don't reach the floor. Here's why — and what it takes to turn published knowledge into something you can actually use.
The most common failure pattern when launching a vertical farm is sourcing equipment from separate vendors. Here's why it happens, what goes wrong, and what to do instead.
A 95% spike in air cargo rates is not just a story about logistics costs. It points to the structural food security problem the Middle East faces, and how the region is approaching vertical farming.
The microgreens market is projected to reach $5.7 billion by 2031. On the strong fit with vertical farms, and the difficulty of starting in existing facilities.
Main Content
394 pages, 19 chapters, 172 topics. A practical knowledge collection built from 10+ years of hands-on experience in vertical farming. It brings together "hands-on knowledge from the floor" for vertical farms that you cannot get anywhere else.
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