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Farming the future

The future of farming is growing in a white shipping container on a tucked-away corner of Arizona State University's Polytechnic campus. Inside the container is Yujin Park’s vertical farm, where racks of lettuce and strawberries grow under exotic lighting right out of a rave. The Economist recently named vertical farming one of 22 technologies to watch in 2022.

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