Hydroponic farms grow plants indoors without soil. When those operations grow the plants on shelves up to the ceiling with LED lights to take the sun’s place – that’s vertical farming.
In Detroit’s eastside Islandview neighborhood a hydroponic vertical farm called Planted (hyperlink: https://planteddetroit.com) now operates out of an nondescript, once vacant 20,000 square foot industrial warehouse. Planted manager Kimberly Buffington sees her company at the ground floor of a whole new industry.
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