Building 'Skyscraper Farms'

Lior Hessel, CEO of OrganiTech, has a vision to turn empty storage containers into high-rise organic farms.

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October 5, 2005, 11:00 AM PDT

By Brenda Meyer

"Tens of thousands of empty storage containers are stacked in towers along I-95 across from the harbor in Newark, New Jersey. They're heaped there in perpetuity, too cheap to be shipped back to Asia but too expensive to melt down.

...Those storage containers would be ideal housing for miniature farms, [Hessel] believes, stacked one upon another like an agricultural skyscraper, all growing fresh organic produce for millions of wealthy consumers.

...The vertical farm model is one of Hessel's ultimate goals, and OrganiTech has been busy laying the groundwork to make skyscraper farms possible. It's already using a system of robotics in high-tech greenhouses."

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