Urban Vertical Farming

Dickson Dispommier, a Columbia University professor and visionary champion of vertical farming, claims that a 30-story glass skyscraper using nonsoil farming could produce enough food on a single city block to feed 50,000 people. But his farm would cost $200 million to build. Other seers are promoting more modest vertical schemes, such as Sky Vegetables, which would use grocery store rooftops—for example the four acres atop a typical Wal-Mart superstore.¹

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1. “Farming for Real”, published by the Wilson Quarterly, sourced from “Spoiled: Organic and Local Is So 2008″, by Paul Roberts, in Mother Jones, March-April 2009. [↩]