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Vertical farms, many stories high, will be situated in the heart of the world's urban centers. They offer the promise of urban renewal, sustainable production of a safe and varied food supply, and year-round crop production. The concept of indoor farming is not new, since hothouse production of tomatoes, a wide variety of herbs, and other produce has been in vogue for some time. What is new is the urgent need to scale up this technology to accommodate another 3 billion people. An entirely new approach to indoor farming must be invented, employing cutting edge technologies. The Vertical Farm must be efficient (cheap to construct and safe to operate). Vertical farms, many stories high, will be situated in the heart of the world's urban centers. If successfully implemented, they offer the promise of urban renewal, sustainable production of a safe and varied food supply (year-round crop production), and the eventual repair of ecosystems that have been sacrificed for horizontal farming.

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Earth Eats is a weekly radio program and podcast exploring local food and sustainable agriculture with recipes you can make at home.

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A new model presented last week by University of Wisconsin-Madison ecologists David Mladenoff and Sarah Pratt indicates that wolves are least successful at living where roads and farms are abundant.

“Where you have agriculture and where you have roads, you’re more likely to have humans,” and, therefore, less likely to find wolves, said Mladenoff, a UW-Madison forest and wildlife ecology professor. He and Pratt announced their research at the Ecological Society of America’s annual meeting in Milwaukee.

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