Target has teamed up with IDEO and the MIT Media Lab to launch Food + Future CoLab, a research lab focusing on vertical farms. Vertical farming is an “an agricultural technique that involves growing plants indoors in precisely programmed conditions.”
Photograph by MIT Media Lab/Open Agriculture Initiative
Photograph by MIT Media Lab/Open Agriculture Initiative
During the in-store trials, people could potentially harvest their own produce from the vertical farms, or just watch as staff members pick greens and veggies to stock on the shelves.