Why the Future of Farming is in Cities - The Big Money in Vertical Farming

You'll be seeing more and more high tech farms popping up in cities.

As the population grows, and we run out of farming land, along with climate change, the future of farming is to bring them into our cities. Creating high tech vertical farms that use aeroponics or hydroponics.

From an underground farm in London, to a Japanese office building with a rice paddy field. Across the world people and companies are investing in creating new ways and technology to provide a more sustainable future.

Big name investors include Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Leonardo DiCaprio, and even the former McDonalds CEO Don Thompson. All pushing the technology of farming and agriculture forward.

Companies highlighted in this video include: AeroFarms, Growing Underground, Square Roots (who have Kimbal Musk, brother of Elon Musk, as a co-founder), the Open Agriculture Initiative, Persona Group, Farm One, Bowery, Plenty, Impossible Foods, and Beyond Meat.

CREDITS
- Selected Farm One Photographs: Farm One and Sarah Blesener
- Persona Group office images: By design firm Kon Designs

[selvestravicius]

I have been in artificial farm in Lithuania six years ago. In winter. Around -15°C that day, in farm was around +20°C. It was aquaponic farm (where fishes are grown in the water tanks and that water is supplied for plants. That way you grow fish and plants at the same time) and the farm itself was on top of the building, like a greenhouse. Amazing experience to see plants growing in the middle of the winter. Trully this is sustainable future every city must have.

[SIDEKICKONYOUTUBE]

Somewhere out there, is a futuristic underground weed farm.

[thefirstsin]

"You take the plant and plant it again"
*Minecraft*

[GrandSuetham]

This farm looks like my old Minecraft sugar cane skyscraper farms, good to see Minecraft's logic working in real life.

[lucrativelepton]

Imagine being doomed to be referred to as "Elon Musk's brother" for the rest of your life

[christianspeight]

I really like how these videos are put together. Hopefully it will inspire the right people to change the world.

[justwanjiku]

I just realised what I want to do with my life.

[Grox]

So it is more efficient, can be grown year round, and better for the environment. We should do this everywhere. Make cheap healthy organic food plenty for everyone. Save the world.

[alexandermarrok]

Imagine owning one of these massive successful and innovative companies and telling people that you're "Just a farmer"

[mephistopheles]

I just realized that they aren’t really doing it for the earth they are practicing for Mars ...

[shelleyroberts]

Amazing! We should be encouraging as many of these farms as possible

[eashwaraerahan]

It’s a really nice idea and I am sure it would solve many issues. What I’m worried about now is, when you cultivate in an open area only certain crops can be cultivated in a particular season. It is exactly those crops that are needed by the people to survive that phase of the year. Say for instance you get watery fruits like melons in summer and starchy veggies like pumpkin in winter. This tech enables us to cultivate whatever we want whenever we want sooner or later. This flexibility is both a boon and a curse. It might mess up the type of food that we need to eat during particular season. We just need to be cautious on that regard.

[justindrescher]

RESOURCE BASED ECONOMY is a true economy that enables everyone to grow equally

[mohamedkaltoum]

The real luxury is to live far alone in mountain...and you enjoy this natural vertical farm

[masterharshalshah]

This is the best innovative agro stuff I've watched in my lifetime. Thanks. I got a new perspective and may be my future biz idea

[anasingle]

The simplicity and beauty of rural life is unmatched

[keithcamilleri]

While this is not practical for the masses at the moment (as MANY are saying), this does prove that we can indeed grow more in less space, it is indeed more space efficient, and while most crops like corn and wheat cant be grown in this fashion, the idea that we can create these simulated environments shows that we are not so doomed to starvation as world population grows. We cannot grow everything, YET! Eventually, like we did for greens, we will figure out how to do it more efficiently.

[LoisSharbel]

This announcer's voice is superb. He employs all the variables in speaking avaiiable to us to capture our attention and make the information magnetic. Thank you.

[Creepy-Girl]

I can't wait for this to become mainstream!

[allglad]

this helps me design my future farm design plans....with a greenhouse with a pool of fish under it...and a multi level foul house also some 4 legged multi level areas also underground with venting connections to them all.