Historically costly indoor hydroponic farms are becoming more accessible to small-scale U.S. farmers. Here's what it means for local communities.
According to Nona Yehia, CEO and co-founder of Vertical Harvest Farms, indoor farming has long been associated with a major barrier to access — high start-up and operating"As we grow as an industry, that cost is going to come down ... but I think that's going to take time," says Yehia.
Vertical Harvest Farms is now working to bring 10 new vertical farms to U.S. food deserts within the next five years, Yehia tells Axios. "Furthering equity is where we really think hydroponic growing will mean something to people. It'll mean something to our families, our communities, our neighborhoods."indoor farming is being explored as a food insecurity mitigation tool by communities in urban food deserts, according to Lisa Price, an Oregon State University professor of anthropology who researches food systems.
Price notes the practice could be a way to "try and correct ... the tremendous reduction of Black farmers in this country," which is largely due to
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