Texas Locavore

In the New York Times last week, Bina Venkataraman reported on growing interest in skyscraper farms — that’s farms located in skyscrapers (not farms that grow skyscrapers).  At the website of the Vertical Farm Project, you can see what one such farm might look like and read about how the 80% of the world’s population that’s forecast to live in urban areas by 2050 could get very local food.