Green Sense Farms USA of Portage, Indiana and Star Global Holdings of the People’s Republic of China have formed a partnership to build, own, and operate a network of indoor vertical farms in China. The new partnership, Green Sense Farms, Asia Pacific, Ltd. will begin building its first farm this year in Shenzhen, a major city in southern China’s Guangdong Province, situated immediately north of Hong Kong.
“With so many new manufacturing sites built on former farmland and more people living in urban centers, vertical farming is an ideal technology for China,” said Robert Colangelo, CEO of Green Sense Farms. Colangelo is traveling to China next week to begin construction on the first Farm. “By growing food indoors in a sustainable, controlled, and sanitary environment, we can increase food security and help feed the Chinese people in an environmentally friendly way,” he said.
Green Sense Farms currently operates the largest indoor vertical farm in the United States. The farm’s sustainable farming practices grow a large quantity of produce in a very small footprint – about one tenth the size of a traditional farm. Because the produce can be grown close to customers, food is delivered fresher and travels fewer miles than traditional farming.
Green Sense Farms’ innovative indoor, vertical growing system means their farms can grow 365 days per year in perfect growing conditions, without herbicides, pesticides, or GMO seeds. Popular Science recently named and added Green Sense Farms to its list of the year’s 100 Greatest Inventions for the farm’s innovative sustainable farming.
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