[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppHarvest
[1]: https://apnews.com/article/appharvest-indoor-farming-bankrup...
[2]: Coverage of Plenty, Bowery, AppHarvest and AeroFarms https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/24/vertical-farming-company-p...
Your product gets, what? Max $2.50/# retail?
Farmland isn't that expensive.
But wheat and potatoes? No, those are strictly outdoor things.
Mind that these aren't startups either. These are old companies making money. My grandfather used to talk about working in greenhouses exactly like these.
[0] https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/glowing-dutch-greenhou...
It’s incredibly disappointing that this is how it turned out. Selling workers on the vision that they did and then completely going in the other direction is gross verging on evil. Especially the parts about top execs cashing out while employees and their friends/family invested in what they thought could be their future.
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus_KY/search/?q=Appharvest...
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The vertical farming bubble is finally popping - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34959649 - Feb 2023 (270 comments)