How to Calculate Your Vertical Farm’s Energy Demand (With Benchmarks)
Commercial vertical farm operators rarely publish their electricity bills. They'll talk about facility area, output, water savings, or number of growing layers, not kWh…
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Why Vertical Farming Needs More Keiretsu (系列, けいれつ)
Japan spent decades building corporate networks around long-term relationships, shared knowledge and mutual dependence. Vertical farming does not need to copy that system. But…
Why the West Walks Away, and Japan Doesn’t: What Infinite Acres’ Collapse Really Shows Us
On September 8, 2026, a Dutch court declared Infinite Acres bankrupt. If you've followed vertical farming for more than a year, that name should…
Infinite Acres Declared Bankrupt in the Netherlands
On September 8, 2026, the district court in The Hague declared Infinite Acres Holding B.V. and Infinite Acres B.V. bankrupt. It is a small,…
80 Acres Farms Files for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy: Inside the Liquidation of a Twelve-Company Structure
Few weeks after announcing it was winding down, 80 Acres Urban Agriculture, Inc. and eleven affiliated companies, including Soli Organic itself, filed for Chapter…
Vertical Farming Events 2027
If you work in vertical farming, 2027 will not be a year you can plan from a single industry calendar. The most useful conversations…
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 Plans to Sell 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 its own research facility…
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…