Many hail Oishii’s “Omakase Strawberries” as the world’s sweetest —- peek inside its vertical farm that provides the optimal farming environment HIROKI KOGA: Our berries are known to have an ...

Food is the very nourishment of life, but it’s also becoming increasingly challenging to grow at scale. A combination of explosive and unsustainable population growth, human-made climate change and ...

Omakase berries, traditionally grown in the Japanese Alps, are two to three times sweeter than US strawberries. Now, a vertical farming company grows the rare fruit in three indoor farms across the US ...

That was all it took for a pair of MBA students to charm their way into some of New York City’s most gilded kitchens. In the spring of 2017, Hiroki Koga and Brendan Somerville used their newly ...

The cultivation of Japanese native wasabi is the most recent addition to Hong Kong's high-tech vertical farming boom. Harvests of wasabi, a staple ingredient in Japanese cuisine, have fallen by 60% in ...

Infarm, one of the largest players in the vertical-farming sector, has formed an agreement with a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Sumitomo Corp. to put the German company’s growing systems for ...

With prices ranging from $15 to $50, the strawberries grown by the vertical farming startup Oishii aren’t going to be found in just any grocery store. Instead, the nearly five year-old startup is ...

For decades, moldboard plows, disks and field cultivators, all horizontal tillage tools, have been the go-tos for fieldwork. That’s changing as fears about climate change come into focus. Sooner or ...