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Vertical farming is the prac- tice of growing crops indoors in vertically stacked layers while controlling the light, temperature, humidity and other factors in an attempt to create ideal conditions.
While the practice seems downright alien to those of us who live in a thriving agricul- tural state like South Carolina, it has advantages for certain crops, especially leafy green vegetables. Indoor agriculture requires only a small fraction of the land and water used in traditional farming, and there is no need for pesticides—
but it’s an energy-intensive pursuit trying to re-create the best of nature indoors.
Some vertical farm opera- tions spend hundreds of thou- sands of dollars a year on
Tigris Farm is an indoor farming operation at Plenty, a San Francisco-based startup that develops plant sciences to grow vertical crops in a pesticide- free environment.
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the crop. To keep costs under control, many vertical farms use highly effificient LED lights
that can be tuned to gener- ate only certain colors from the full light spectrum, pro- viding the ideal growing light for specifific plants. For more on the practice of automated vertical agriculture, visit plenty.ag. — MARIA KANEVSKY
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