AeroFarms is a farming company that grows produce indoors without sun, soil or pesticides. In this 360¡ video, step inside one of their vertical farms, which grows kale, arugula and other greens in Newark.
By: Jake Naughton, Niko Koppel and Guglielmo Mattioli
In this video, Dr. Nate answers some fundamental questions about indoor growing.
Indoor farming is a new farming approach that utilizes volume in unconventional spaces. It’s powered by new technology and benefits both farmers and consumers.
*Benefits of indoor farming to farmers*
High density production,
Economic production,
Controlled production,
Consistent production,
Unique branding.
*Benefits to consumers*
Food that reaches the fringes,
Food with higher quality,
Food from farmers you know.
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.
In the kale-filled facility at vertical farm startup Bowery Farming, it’s a piece of proprietary software that makes most of the critical decisions -- like when to harvest and how much to water each plant. But it still takes humans to carry out many tasks around the farm. Katie Morich, 25, loves the work. But as roboticists make gains, will her employer need her forever? This is the fourth episode of Next Jobs, a series about careers of the future hosted by Bloomberg Technology's Aki Ito.
