Food Systems & AgriTech
Growing Up: 7 Vertical Farming Breakthroughs Quietly Rewiring America's Food Future
Controlled-environment agriculture has spent years promising to transform how Americans eat — and for much of that time, the promises outpaced the results. That calculus is now shifting. From AI-guided crop management to radically new growing substrates, a wave of genuinely scalable innovations is moving out of university greenhouses and into commercial supply chains, with real implications for food security in a warming climate.