How do you farm in a city? Use a tower... The first-ever commercial vertical farm opens in Singapore: @grist

Strombo | Farming Grows Up: The World's First Commercial Vertical Farm Opens In Singapore

cbc.ca 30 Oct '12, 2pm

How do you farm in a city? Use a tower... The first-ever commercial vertical farm opens in Singapore: @grist

Imagine a farm. What do you see? Rolling hills? Lots of open land where crops can grow? Wide open spaces? That's a pretty normal picture. After all, that's how farming is usually done: on large plots of lands in rural areas. But in a country like Singapore, which is facing serious land scarcity, that's not really an option. Enter vertical farming. A company called Sky Greens Farms has just built the world's first commercial vertical farm in Singapore. So what is vertical farming? It works like this: instead of planting vegetables in the ground, you grow them in planters, installed into vertical towers made out of metal. The technology allows farming to take place in urban areas, and also reduces the amount of land needed to grow produce. This is especially important in Singapore. The entire country is only 710 square kilometres, and there's very little land left over for f...

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@vipulrawal » 07 Nov '12, 3pm
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@LaurenOPV » 07 Nov '12, 3pm
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@kylevernest » 02 Nov '12, 6pm
RT @nikkiwray: Neat! RT @strombo: How do you farm in a city? Use a tower...The first-ever commercial vertical farm opens in Singapore: [link]
@MarkJMcGill » 01 Nov '12, 3pm
RT @samleec00per: It's finally happened, the world's 1st commercial vertical farming operation has begun in Singapore - [link]
@samleec00per » 01 Nov '12, 2pm
It's finally happened, the world's first commercial vertical farming operation has begun in Singapore - [link]
@ChewLIFE_ » 01 Nov '12, 12pm
Curious 2c what comes “@LPKinToronto: Farming Grows Up: The World's First Commercial Vertical Farm Opens In Singapore [link]”
@ThomasBoyden » 31 Oct '12, 6pm
Good luck to the 'first' commercial #verticalfarm in Singapore [link] #urbanfarming #urbanag
@GreenQuinte » 31 Oct '12, 5pm
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@MaynaVancaillie » 30 Oct '12, 11pm
@Goodstrategist sounds like your kind of thing! [link]
@JDignum » 30 Oct '12, 11pm
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@sioron » 30 Oct '12, 8pm
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@candice_mcnish » 30 Oct '12, 8pm
Can we get one in Tdot? RT @strombo: How do you farm in a city? vertical farm opens in Singapore: [link] @grist
@Cupcakedujour » 30 Oct '12, 8pm
RT: “@strombo: Commercial vertical farm opens in Singapore: [link]” @MelodyChen_ Who needs ice skates? Let's be farmers!
@GerriSchmidt1 » 30 Oct '12, 7pm
RT @LisaBorden: Awesome. RT @strombo: How do you farm in a city? Use a tower...1st-ever commercial vertical farm in Singapore [link] v @grist
@phdinparenting » 30 Oct '12, 7pm
My husband built me this greenhouse: [link] Next year, I want him to build me this one: [link]
@LisaBorden » 30 Oct '12, 7pm
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@tinyplots » 30 Oct '12, 6pm
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Farming Grows Up: The World's First Commercial Vertical Farm Opens In Singapore [link]
@leonadargis » 30 Oct '12, 4pm
[link] Kenny Eng Wan Chelsea how come we never visited this? Does this have anything to do with Kranji? [link]
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Vertical farming? It's about time: [link]
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RT @strombo: How do you farm in a city? Use a tower... The first-ever commercial vertical farm opens in Singapore: [link] @grist
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RT @strombo: How do you farm in a city? Use a tower... The first-ever commercial vertical farm opens in Singapore: [link] @grist
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RT @strombo: How do you farm in a city? Use a tower... The first-ever commercial vertical farm opens in Singapore: [link] @grist
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RT @strombo: How do you farm in a city? Use a tower... The first-ever commercial vertical farm opens in Singapore: [link] @grist
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RT @strombo: How do you farm in a city? Use a tower... The first-ever commercial vertical farm opens in Singapore: [link] @grist
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RT @strombo: How do you farm in a city? Use a tower... The first-ever commercial vertical farm opens in Singapore: [link] @grist
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RT @strombo: How do you farm in a city? Use a tower... The first-ever commercial vertical farm opens in Singapore: [link] @grist
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RT @strombo: How do you farm in a city? Use a tower... The first-ever commercial vertical farm opens in Singapore: [link] @grist
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RT @strombo: How do you farm in a city? Use a tower... The first-ever commercial vertical farm opens in Singapore: [link] @grist
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RT @strombo: How do you farm in a city? Use a tower... The first-ever commercial vertical farm opens in Singapore: [link] @grist
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RT @strombo: How do you farm in a city? Use a tower... The first-ever commercial vertical farm opens in Singapore: [link] @grist
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RT @strombo: How do you farm in a city? Use a tower... The first-ever commercial vertical farm opens in Singapore: [link] @grist
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RT @strombo: How do you farm in a city? Use a tower... The first-ever commercial vertical farm opens in Singapore: [link] @grist
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RT @strombo: How do you farm in a city? Use a tower... The first-ever commercial vertical farm opens in Singapore: [link] @grist
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RT @strombo: How do you farm in a city? Use a tower... The first-ever commercial vertical farm opens in Singapore: [link] @grist
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RT @strombo: How do you farm in a city? Use a tower... The first-ever commercial vertical farm opens in Singapore: [link] @grist
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RT @strombo: How do you farm in a city? Use a tower... The first-ever commercial vertical farm opens in Singapore: [link] @grist