This indoor farm in the US can grow 365 days a year and uses 95% less water than a typical farm


Bowery CEO and founder Irving Fain: We grow indoors in big warehouse-scale farms that grow in a totally controlled environment, and we do stack LEDs vertically in that space. There’s a number of issues with the traditional industrialized agricultural system that exist today, and Bowery’s actually able to solve a number of those problems. We use 70% of the world’s water supply in agriculture every single year, and just in the US alone, we put down about 700 million pounds of pesticides every year. And it’s on the food that we’re actually eating.

Here’s how Bowery’s technology is improving farming.



The Bowery OS really acts as the brains of our farm. So it sits on top of our farm, and it’s taking in millions of points of data in real time that have an impact on the health of our plants, the quality of those plants, even things like texture, certainly yield, even taste in the flavour of the crops themselves.

We also have a plant vision system, which is taking pictures of the crops in real time, and then running those photos through machine-learning algorithms, we can actually understand and see what’s happening with those crops.



With the consumers today, you see a desire to have a higher-quality product, and a desire to have a product that’s not only better for them, but also just grown in a more responsible and sustainable way. And it gives us a lot of optimism that this is an important step forward for agriculture in cities around the US, and ultimately cities around the world.