Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Local Roots shipping container farms achieve cost parity with traditional farming

99 percent less water 4,000 lettuce heads every 10 days. Los Angeles-based vertical farming company Local Roots achieves all that in their shipping container farms - but today they announced they've also reached cost parity with traditional farming. They plan to deploy over 100 of their TerraFarms in 2018. Inhabitat checked out their mobile TerraFarm in Manhattan and met co-founders Eric Ellestad and Matt Veil to hear more. Related:

from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/local-roots-shipping-container-farms-achieve-cost-parity-with-traditional-farming
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