{"id":70834,"date":"2017-07-14T23:12:50","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T06:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-europes-huge-new-vertical-farm"},"modified":"2017-07-20T21:37:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T04:37:58","slug":"a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-europes-huge-new-vertical-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-europes-huge-new-vertical-farm","title":{"rendered":"A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Europe\u2019s Huge New Vertical Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-europes-huge-new-vertical-farm.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Eindhoven High Tech Campus, a 90-minute train ride south of Amsterdam, consists of two rows of nondescript mid-rise office buildings on either side of a wide, tree-lined road. In typical Dutch fashion, there\u2019s more parking for bikes than cars, and the campus is flanked by stretches of neatly-maintained green fields and canals.<\/p>\n<p>The place doesn\u2019t have an especially high-tech feel to it. But on the third floor of a building near the end of the road, a division of Philips Lighting called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usa.lighting.philips.com\/products\/horticulture\/press-releases\/growwise-center\">GrowWise<\/a> is using technology to tackle a crucial question: what are we going to eat once there are over nine billion people on Earth?<\/p>\n<p>GrowWise is a vertical farming research facility, and in conjunction with Dutch fresh food distributor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staayfoodgroup.com\/\">Staay Food Group<\/a>, it\u2019s laying the groundwork for the first commercial vertical farm in Europe, slated to open north-east of Amsterdam in a town called Dronten <a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2017\/04\/19\/vertical-farming-taking-off-europes-first-commercial-vertical-farm-construction-netherlands\/\">later this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/07\/13\/a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-europes-huge-new-vertical-farm\/\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/07\/13\/a-behind-the-scenes-lo...ical-farm\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eindhoven High Tech Campus, a 90-minute train ride south of Amsterdam, consists of two rows of nondescript mid-rise office buildings on either side of a wide, tree-lined road. In typical Dutch fashion, there\u2019s more parking for bikes than cars, and the campus is flanked by stretches of neatly-maintained green fields and canals. The place [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70834","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\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71059,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70834\/revisions\/71059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}