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The beginner’s guide to the indoor farming industry

Indoor farming is a popular subject in the media, and a booming industry with new farmers joining the game every day. In fact, there are growing conferences held solely for indoor farmers, their suppliers, influencers, and resources. But many are still left with questions about the indoor farm.
  • Just what makes an indoor farm an indoor farm?
  • What makes indoor farming so popular?
  • What potential does indoor farming really have in the future?
  • How will I interact with indoor farms?
Indoor farms take many different forms, from flood trays to towers of greens, from warehouses to basements, and from microgreens to vining tomatoes. The pioneers of indoor farming used primarily horizontal techniques in growing spaces. However, as tech has developed, the industry has grown. As innovation increases, people have started thinking about the indoor space as a volume rather than an area. (In other words, they’re thinking about a 3D farm instead of a 2D farm.)



This “volumetric” mindset is the future of farming. This is a very exciting time for the indoor farming industry as farmers and designers are finding more and more ways to use that volume efficiently.

At first, this switch from area to volume was made by stacking horizontal planes. Eventually, human and plant needs led to forms of farming that use vertical planes instead of horizontal planes.

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