First indoor vertical berry farm opens in Virginia, using AI to grow 4 million pounds annually. Tech expert Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson takes a closer look at the "growing" trend.

ARLINGTON, Va. (7News) — Tucked between an autobody shop and doggy daycare, an organic vertical farm is growing acres of produce year-round in just a few thousand feet of an Arlington warehouse.

MyForest Foods's 78,000-square-foot vertical farm can grow three million pounds of mycelium, the root-like structure of mushrooms, a year, to become alt bacon.

The new farm is being called "the world's most technologically advanced indoor vertical farm" and is designed to grow up to 4.5 million pounds of leafy greens annually in a single city block.

Vertical Harvest operates 24/7, 365 days a year—even when Maine is buried under snow. “So, in the middle of winter, we can be farm to fork within 24 hours,” Yehia said.

Most vertical farms grow greens like lettuce or spinach, but a facility in a remote corner of Iceland, run by a startup called Vaxa Technologies, grows microalgae instead. A new study found that ...

Vertical farming startup Plenty Unlimited Inc. said it will lay off 50 employees in South San Francisco by March as well as 100 at its farm operation in Compton.