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This new vertical farm is growing towering racks of mycelium for fungi-based bacon

This new vertical farm is growing towering racks of mycelium for fungi-based bacon

MyForest Foods’s 78,000-square-foot vertical farm can grow three million pounds a year of mycelium, the root-like structure of mushrooms, to become alt-bacon.
This robot shakes flowers to pollinate them when bees can’t

This robot shakes flowers to pollinate them when bees can’t

It can be hard to get bees to do their vital work in indoor farms or greenhouses. Instead, the plants may need a little robotic assistance to reproduce.
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‘It’s not as carbon-hungry’: UK’s largest sunlit vertical farm begins harvest

The vertical farm model uses less water and yields many times more plants than field growing.

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