The Vertical Farm Project - Agriculture for the 21st Century and Beyond

News & Updates

March 17th, 2010
Added Eat-onomics: The Ten Most Inspiring People in Sustainable Food under Related Articles
Added Kiss + Cathcart under Links

February 23rd, 2010
Added PLA(n)TFORM design by Ori Ronen & Adi Reich

February 20th, 2010
Added two more VF designs

February 15th, 2010
Added Experimental Vertical Farm by Claudio Palavecino Llanos
Added Warming Climate May Devastate Major U.S. Crops – The Earth Institute of Columbia University

September 9th, 2009
The New York Times – Big Food vs. Big Insurance by Michael Pollan

August 31st, 2009
The New York Times – A Farm on Every Floor by Dickson Despommier
The New York Times – Connecting Nature's Dots by Thomas Friedman

June 11th, 2009
Added new Vertical Farm designs
Veritcal Farming For the Greener Good
American Society of Landscape Architects Interview

June 8th, 2009
Added Zabeel Park Vertical Farm design

May 19th, 2009
Vertical Farm Interview by Miller-McCune -- Going Up? Farming in High-Rises Raises Hopes

April 27th, 2009
Vertical Farm featured on the Discovery Channel's Daily Planet Show (click on clip 3)

March 24th, 2009
Added new Vertical Farm design: Eco-Laboratory by Weber Thompson

Februrary 23rd, 2009
Next American City: Meeting Farming's Future

Februrary 20th, 2009
Added Media page

Februrary 18th, 2009
Vertical Farm featured on The Discovery Channel — click here to watch the video

Februrary 17th, 2009
Vertical Farm mentioned on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno — click here to watch the video (fast-forward to 36:10)

December 18th, 2008
Vertical Farm featured on the December issue of Time Magazine

December 14th, 2008
Added a new vertical farm design by Olive Foster of University of Queensland, Australia
Vertical Farm featured on CBC Radio: Quirks & Quarks — click here to download the show (MP3 format, 22MB)

October 1st, 2008
Vertical Farm featured on the October issue of Scientific American

September 21st, 2008
New Vertical Farm design by Chris Jacobs

September 4th, 2008
Vertical Farm featured on Popular Science Magazine

August 19, 2008
Vertical Farm featured on SonntagsZeitung (a Swiss newspaper)

August 15, 2008
Vertical Farm featured on Big Think Blog (video)

July 27, 2008
Vertical Farm featured on The New York Times

May 29, 2008
Vertical Farm featured on The Huffington Post

May 19, 2008
Added Vertical Farm Essay in Korean

April 15, 2008
Added new Vertical Farm design by Blake Kurasek - The Living Skyscraper: Farming the Urban Skyline

April 7, 2008
Added new Vertical Farm design by Eric Ellingsen and Dickson Despommier - Pyramid Farm

March 10, 2008
A new related article "Prioritizing Climate Changes Adaptation Needs for food security" Science Magazine (Mar 2008)

February 8, 2008
VerticalFarm.com was featured on Science Magazine (Feb 2008)

December 12, 2007
Vertical Farm was featured on Wired Science

September 13, 2007
Vertical Farm was featured on CNN Money

September 3, 2007
Vertical Farm was featured on Popular Science (July 2007)

June 19, 2007
Vertical Farm featured on BBC News - Vertical Farming in the Big Apple

June 7, 2007
Added 2007 Student Reports

June 4, 2007
New Vertical Farm designs by Waimond Ip

PDF Format (13 Page, 8.38MB)

May 22, 2007
Vertical Farm featured on US News & World Report.

May 9, 2007
Added the Vertical Farm Essay in French, German, and Spanish.

May 6, 2007
Added The Vertical Farm Essay in Portuguese

April 1, 2007
Vertical Farm featured on New York Magazine

March 15, 2007
Added new Vertical Farm design by Gordon Graff - SkyFarm