Science & Technology

Pressure on traditional agriculture is reshaping how food is grown—not just where it’s produced, but also how growing space is used.

Limited land near cities, fragile supply chains, and rising transportation costs are making a different model more economically viable. This new approach is called “vertical farming.”

Vertical farming is often grouped with another subset of farming: indoor agriculture. However, that label misses the point, as controlled-environment growing has existed for decades, especially in large-scale greenhouses. The real shift is this: farming goes up instead of out.