{"id":27538,"date":"2016-07-06T00:47:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T07:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/the-worlds-largest-vertical-farm-is-being-built-in-new-jersey"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:09:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:09:17","slug":"the-worlds-largest-vertical-farm-is-being-built-in-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/the-worlds-largest-vertical-farm-is-being-built-in-new-jersey","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Largest Vertical Farm Is Being Built in New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-largest-vertical-farm-is-being-built-in-new-jersey.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A huge vertical farm\u2014where crops are planted, grown, and harvested all with neither sun nor soil\u2014is being built in New Jersey. When it\u2019s finished, it will be the largest one in the world.<\/p>\n<p>You can see one of the (smaller) existing factories from AeroFarm, on which the new one will be modeled, above in this video from Seeker Stories. Nothing they are doing or planning is really new\u2014people have been growing vegetables indoors under LED lights, minus the soil, for a very long time now. Even the factory spin is nothing new. Japan\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2014\/07\/140717-japan-largest-indoor-plant-factory-food\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mirai factory has been doing something similar on a<\/a> slightly smaller scale for years now. What is interesting here, though, is just how big this place is.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-worlds-largest-vertical-farm-is-being-built-in-new-1783152722\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-worlds-largest-vertical-farm-is-being...1783152722<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A huge vertical farm\u2014where crops are planted, grown, and harvested all with neither sun nor soil\u2014is being built in New Jersey. When it\u2019s finished, it will be the largest one in the world. You can see one of the (smaller) existing factories from AeroFarm, on which the new one will be modeled, above in this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61299,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27538\/revisions\/61299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}