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,…
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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…
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…
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,…
Heliospectra’s Bankruptcy: What a 20-Year LED Pioneer’s Collapse Reveals About CEA’s Supply-Chain Squeeze
Heliospectra AB filed for bankruptcy on the morning of July 27, 2026. The Gothenburg District Court signed off within three hours, and the company's…
Digging for Salad: Is the Future of Vertical Farming Underground?
Vertical farming has spent a decade building up: warehouses stacked floor on floor with LED lit racks, chasing efficiency by going vertical. A small,…
North Korea Built 1,150 Greenhouses with Vertical Hydroponic. Operating Them Is the Hard Part
In February 2026, North Korean state media unveiled what it called the country's largest ever greenhouse complex, the Sinuiju Combined Greenhouse Farm, built on…
Vertical Farming Food Safety: What the 2026 Berry Recalls Reveals
It is not the first time. It is not even the first time this decade. When Rewe pulled a batch of its 'ja!' frozen…
Cyclospora Outbreak 2026: The Structural Food Safety Problem Vertical Farming Was Built to Solve
It is not a mystery pathogen. It is not bad luck. The parasite behind the 2026 Cyclospora outbreak spreading across the United States has…
How Airflow Design Prevents Lettuce Tip Burn in Vertical Farms: What the UGA Research Shows
Tip burn is one of the most persistent quality problems in indoor lettuce production. It looks like heat damage, but it is not. It…