Target’s Indoor Vertical Farms


TECHNOLOGY |

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.”

cityfarm_day-1024x397Photograph by MIT Media Lab/Open Agriculture Initiative

digital_farmPhotograph 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.

via Business Insider