This article makes a mistake by assuming that an installation (TheFarm) represents the best we can do with vertical or indoor farming. Of course an exploratory

This article makes a mistake by assuming that an installation (TheFarm) represents the best we can do with vertical or indoor farming. Of course an exploratory art installation isn't going to be particularly cost conscious - it's not designed for that, not really. Instead, the obvious counterpoint is to look at currently vertical farming installations. The one I'm most aware of is Plenty, which has 350x the yield of standard outdoor farming. At that level, it's leafy green products are organic and cost competitive (i.e., the same price) as other organic spinach/kale/arugula brands. This is really substantially understating the case for Plenty, but I don't think I can say much more and I would encourage anyone interested to just go look up what they and other vertical farming operations are doing.