The World’s Largest Indoor Vertical Farm Is Being Built in New Jersey

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The World’s Largest Indoor Vertical Farm Is Being Built in New Jersey
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Alissa Walker

This week, a former steel factory in Newark, New Jersey began its transformation into a new life as a vertical farm that will feed hundreds of thousands of people—it will grow up to two million pounds of kale, arugula and romaine lettuce per year when it’s finished.

The farm is one of many industrial buildings in the Ironbound community of Newark where former factories and warehouses are being rehabilitated into new uses. The groundbreaking was yesterday, and when finished, the 69,000 square foot space will be the largest indoor vertical farm in the world.

The technology for the farm will come from a company called AeroFarms, which uses tall towers of LED-lit aeroponic trays to grow herbs and leafy greens. AeroFarms claims that their method is 75 times more productive than a traditional outdoor farm would be per square-foot. And because it’s indoors, it uses no pesticides…..more here

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