Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Billionaires make it rain on Plenty, the indoor farming startup | TechCrunch

Billionaires make it rain on Plenty, the indoor farming startup | TechCrunch



...The company’s first crops will be on shelves in undisclosed supermarkets and available online in the San Francisco area next year....



Aerofarms, BrightFarms, Bowery Farming and Freight Farms are all developing indoor farming systems that purport to provide better, fresher, cheaper produce at a fraction of the cost of organics and with a similar footprint....



....Indeed, several companies, including Atlanta-based PodPonics, Vancouver’s LocalGarden and Chicago-area FarmedHere, had to close down because they weren’t viable businesses.

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