Weed Entrepreneur Dreams Up a 100-Story Skyscraper to Grow Food

  • Rick Byrd’s PureAgro uses cannabis to show farming innovation
  • Vertical agriculture production could feed urban areas
Photographer: David Ryder/Bloomberg
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According to Rick Byrd, the future of farming is tall, dirtless and local.

Byrd’s vision of skyscraper farms to feed city dwellers begins with a much different kind of crop: marijuana.