Greenhouses

A new kind of greenhouse: Meeting discusses future, challenges of controlled indoor ag

These greenhouses may look purple: In some cases, controlled, indoor agriculture has the lettuce growing out of panels hung vertically and illuminated with red and blue LED lights, instead of stretching out on horizontal tables under sunlit glass or plastic. To share the latest findings in growing food and medicine in indoor vertical and greenhouse environments, scientists from around the United States and Canada gathered recently at UC Davis, part of a working group organized through the United States Department of Agriculture.