Can we grow crops without photosynthesis to make vertical farming stack up?
The Manufacturing Abundance team at ARIA has been incubating an early idea we are referring to as lights-out agriculture: crops that are grown with no reliance on photosynthesis, and whether that could unlock a new generation of vertical farming that is less constrained by climate and geography.
The Manufacturing Abundance team at ARIA has been incubating an early idea we are referring to as lights-out agriculture: crops that are grown with no reliance on photosynthesis, and whether that could unlock a new generation of vertical farming that is less constrained by climate and geography. If successful, we believe lights-out agriculture could help replace a significant fraction of the UK’s £8bn annual fresh fruit and vegetable imports with domestic production, create entirely new crops, and, in the longer term, enable local, year-round production of staple foods. We are particularly…
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