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Getting closer to resembling what a post-apocalyptic future would look like post humanity, TechCrunch has a story about vertical farming start-up, Infarm. The company of 40-plus workers was the first to have a vertical farming system in a supermarket, one located in Berlin. Nested inside a series of trays, the farming system allocates plants based on size and growth, distributing the plants from the center to the outer area. A concept that has already taken off in Japan, the idea of farming as a service on-demand is still relatively new for most. Each of Infarm's units can be configured to grow different crops to the vendors own-choosing from a simple herb garden to one with bell peppers or even fruit. I'm awaiting a meat tree that provides its own beef, but the food dehydrator will do for now.
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"When we presented our idea three or four years ago, people looked at us as though we [had] lost our mind," says Infarm co-founder Erez Galonska. "We are the first company in the world that has put vertical farming in a supermarket. We did it last year with Metro Group, which is one of the biggest wholesalers in Europe, and now we are facing very big demand from other supermarkets that want to do the same."
The resulting combination of IoT, Big Data and cloud analytics is akin to "Farming-as-a-Service," whilst, space permitting, Infarm's modular approach affords the ability to keep adding more farming capacity in a not entirely dissimilar way to how cloud computing can be ramped up at the push of a button.
Check out the video.
"When we presented our idea three or four years ago, people looked at us as though we [had] lost our mind," says Infarm co-founder Erez Galonska. "We are the first company in the world that has put vertical farming in a supermarket. We did it last year with Metro Group, which is one of the biggest wholesalers in Europe, and now we are facing very big demand from other supermarkets that want to do the same."
The resulting combination of IoT, Big Data and cloud analytics is akin to "Farming-as-a-Service," whilst, space permitting, Infarm's modular approach affords the ability to keep adding more farming capacity in a not entirely dissimilar way to how cloud computing can be ramped up at the push of a button.