Vertical Farming Events 2027 – The Global Calendar (Early Edition)
If you work in vertical farming, 2027 will not be a year you can plan from a single industry calendar. The most useful conversations…
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VerticalFarming.blog Goes to Japan
In September 2026, VerticalFarming.blog is going to Japan. This isn't a trade-show trip, a one-week business visit, or a single factory tour. I will…
80 Acres Farms Now Faces Three Lawsuits, and One of Them Challenges the Legal Basis for How It Closed
A staffing firm wants $687,240. A federal class action argues the company owed its workers 60 days' notice, not none. Here's what's been filed,…
First Results From the World’s Deepest Vertical Farm: What Boulby’s Trial Data Actually Shows
Back in July we covered why three very different projects are farming underground, Boulby mine in North Yorkshire, GreenForges in Canada, and a Kyuden…
Vertical Farming Oman: Inside the $44M Al Salil Cluster
Vertical farming Oman style: a $44M cluster where vertical farming is only phase three, and it's not the only one. There's a pattern with…
Oishii Farm Opens Its First Japan R&D Hub, and Starts Selling Strawberries in the Country It Learned From
Japan taught the world how to grow food indoors. On 5 August 2026, a company built entirely outside Japan opened a research facility of…
Mycionics Interview: What Vertical Farming Can Learn From Mushroom Robotics
Mushrooms rarely come up in vertical farming coverage, even though they're grown almost entirely in controlled environments. Mycionics, a Canadian robotics company, has spent…
Is GoodLeaf Really the First Profitable Vertical Farm in North America?
On August 11, 2026, GoodLeaf Farms announced that all three of its Canadian facilities had reached profitability, calling itself the first vertical farming operator…
Germany Could Legally Force Vertical Farming to Go Dark. Here’s What That Means for Investors
A back-of-envelope model using Bustanica, Jones Food Company and Fischer Farms suggests an industrial-scale vertical farm would likely blow past the reported 8 GWh…
The Retail Trap: Why Mass-Market Vertical Farming Doesn’t Work
80 Acres Farms had $350M, a merger partner with 20,000 retail doors, and eleven years of runway. It still couldn't out-price a field. Here's…
80 Acres Farms Shuts Down After 11 Years: Inside the Collapse of a $350M Vertical Farming Pioneer
The company supplied greens, herbs, and tomatoes to more than 18,000 retail locations. Its own co-founder says the problem was never the technology. Update,…
Inside Japan’s Plant Factory Boom: What the Government Roadmap Actually Says
I've been working on this report for about three months now, not writing it once and shipping it, but going back into it repeatedly…