Shifting the Way We Grow Food with vertical farming

Vertical Field can grow up to 200 varieties of crops, such as leafy greens, herbs, and lettuces.

The vertical farming system is designed to be easy to use, maintain, monitor, and harvest. In fact, anyone can operate the platform without any prior farm experience or professional agricultural expertise. With Vertical Field’s intuitive app, you can monitor all the plants’ vital signs while our smart algorithms and sensors take care of the rest. We even created a modular design so that mature crops can be easily accessed, harvested, and replaced with fresh pots and new plantings. We believe in a vertical farming future that does not require highly skilled labor, which is why we have designed our products for easy maintenance.

We do not use chemical fertilizers or pesticides in any of our crops, and are currently finalizing the process of receiving official USDA organic certification for our vertical organic farming unit.

We use advanced LED lights to provide our plants with the precise light intensity and color they need to grow properly and efficiently. Via the app, it is easy to monitor the lighting and adjust it accordingly to maximize yields and quality while minimizing electricity use. We believe plants deserve the best inputs for them to deliver the best outputs. This LED technology enables our indoor vertical farming units to mimic and even excel beyond the capabilities of outdoor vertical farming units.

While both a vertical hydroponic system and a vertical geoponic system provide higher than average yields, geoponics have several unique advantages over hydroponics. Geoponic systems are overall more cost-effective, require less high-skilled maintenance, have a longer shelf-life, and can yield a more diverse range of crops. Moreover, using a geoponic solution supports our values of keeping plants in their original environment and utilizing nutrients and minerals in their natural form.

While precise water use varies from plant to plant, overall our geoponic urban farm consumes approximately 90% less water than needed for conventional agriculture.

Control – Our urban farm gives you complete control over irrigation, lighting, and temperature ensuring that plants receive the optimum conditions to thrive.

Speed and Convenience – Crops can grow twice as fast in controlled environments as compared to conventional outdoor agriculture. Using our modular technology plants can also be harvested easily and replaced easily without the burdens of plowing and tilling massive fields.

Weed-free & Pesticide-free – With our indoor urban farm, no weeding is needed. Furthermore, time and costs are reduced because there is no need to spray produce with pesticides.

Seasonality Constraints –  Crops are no longer dependent on weather conditions in order to flourish, meaning you can grow a consistent and stable supply of produce, regardless of the season or extreme weather conditions.

Accessibility – Easy to manage, easy to operate, and requires minimal space, our urban farm is a convenient and accessible way to grow produce quickly and easily without any special skills.

Vertical farming is an agricultural method whereby crops grow vertically, often in stacked levels or using a vertical platform, such as a wall or a cylinder. Vertical farming (also known as vertical agriculture) is often done indoors using controlled-environment agriculture, which monitors and controls agricultural inputs such as irrigation, fertilizer, lighting, and temperature.

On average, vertical farming uses between 90-97% less water than conventional field-grown agriculture. For geoponic systems, drip irrigation is monitored, which provides each plant with the precise quantities it needs. Excess water gets transferred to the crops in the row beneath it. Furthermore, the indoor environment prevents evaporation as compared to a field, which further increases the water efficiency of this technique.

For hydroponic systems, water is recycled within the system.

Vertical farming hosts a number of important advantages. As produce uses vertical space, about 6 times more crops can be grown per meter as compared to field-grown agriculture. This spatial efficiency enables produce to be grown closer to the consumer, increasing access to fresh and local food. Many vertical farms are even located in or near major cities and urban hubs, which increases food security in urban spaces. Vertical farming units also utilize indoor farming techniques, which produce a consistent yield year-round, regardless of the weather or season. Furthermore, because farms are in closed spaces, they are not vulnerable to outdoor pests, and therefore most vertical farms are free of chemical pesticides.