Americold’s facility in Dunkirk, N.Y., was built with LEED certified energy efficiency in mind, and Oishii’s vertical strawberry farm is opening doors for a different variety of vertically farmed produce.
For our coverage of Fabulous Food Plants this year, we decided to do something a little bit different in honor of “plants,” aka flora. When we think of food plants, we almost immediately think of processing facilities, but there’s so much more to food production than the processing plant. So, seeing how plant-based foods are altering the ways consumers think about protein, we decided to alter the way we think about food plants. The facilities we included this year are decidedly not processing facilities or plants in the traditional sense—but they’re definitely fabulous.
Vertical farming has the potential to be one of the biggest innovations in farming. To that end, Oishii created its largest and most technologically advanced vertical farm yet to meet the growing demand for the company’s Omakase Berries.