Vertical farms make perfect sense when you rotate them 90 from the base, remove all the glass, and maximize your usable surface area. A basil garden in the wind

Vertical farms make perfect sense when you rotate them 90 from the base, remove all the glass, and maximize your usable surface area. A basil garden in the windowsill is about as vertical as your going to get in any non-scifi form. Maybe having big tubes of circulating algae would work, but then you're all eating delicious Matrix Goo.