Stalker noted in a piece on vertical farming that a farmer in Bowfield, near Borris-in-Ossory in Co Laois, got a mention as he has diversified into growing micro-greens in a mushroom tunnel.
It has been said before in these pages that mushroom production was one of the first vertical farm systems in the world, and the technology in the industry seems perfectly adaptable to the new trend in farming.
“ Vertical farming offers one way of reversing the slide into food insecurity,” as the writer succinctly put it.
