{"id":279,"date":"2017-01-08T16:21:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T21:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=279"},"modified":"2017-01-08T16:21:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T21:21:47","slug":"from-the-web-vertical-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/01\/08\/from-the-web-vertical-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Web: Vertical Farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-280\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/files\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-08-at-3.16.56-PM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-01-08-at-3-16-56-pm\" width=\"547\" height=\"822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-08-at-3.16.56-PM.png 547w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-08-at-3.16.56-PM-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No. 212 Rome Street, in Newark, New Jersey, used to be the address of Grammer, Dempsey &amp; Hudson, a steel-supply company. It was like a lumberyard for steel, which it bought in bulk from distant mills and distributed in smaller amounts, mostly to customers within a hundred-mile radius of Newark. It sold off its assets in 2008 and later shut down. In 2015, a new indoor-agriculture company called AeroFarms leased the property. It had the rusting corrugated-steel exterior torn down and a new building erected on the old frame. Then it filled nearly seventy thousand square feet of floor space with what is called a <strong>vertical farm<\/strong>. The building\u2019s ceiling allowed for grow tables to be stacked twelve layers tall, to a height of thirty-six feet, in rows eighty feet long. The vertical farm grows kale, bok choi, watercress, arugula, red-leaf lettuce, mizuna, and other baby salad greens.<\/p>\n<p>Learn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2017\/01\/09\/the-vertical-farm\">more<\/a> &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. 212 Rome Street, in Newark, New Jersey, used to be the address of Grammer, Dempsey &amp; Hudson, a steel-supply company. It was like a lumberyard for steel, which it bought in bulk from distant mills and distributed in smaller amounts, mostly to customers within a hundred-mile radius of Newark. It sold off its assets &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/01\/08\/from-the-web-vertical-farming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Web: Vertical Farming&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[427000,425248],"tags":[41478,4433],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","category-green-leap","tag-innovation","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-4v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}