Vertical farms promised a revolution. What comes next?
After a wave of high-profile failures, the sector is quietly rethinking what it can — and cannot — do.
The past two years have been humbling for vertical farming. A wave of high-profile bankruptcies and downsizings has forced the sector to confront harder questions about what it can realistically produce, at what cost, and for whom.
Proponents argue the technology still has a role to play — particularly for leafy greens, herbs and specialty crops close to urban markets. Sceptics counter that the energy footprint remains the sector's central unresolved problem.
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