Groceries

A Vertical Farm would provide fresh organic produce for residents, year round.

Think about walking to an organic market where the food is grown on the floors rising above you. You step into the entranceway and see all manner of vegetables and fruit laid out in front of you. Heavy fresh oranges and huge grapefruit vie for space with small watermelons and ripe mangoes. The season doesn't matter - it's all right there.

You walk to the back and an array of fresh fish, shrimp and other seafood awaits your inspection, most of it grown on site in the huge aquariums and indoor ponds that dot the bike and walking paths. The sushi shop next door has a special shrimp dish that recently won awards and you decide to grab some on the way out the door.

Or, since it's so close - place your order online from the comfort of your own home and have fresh vegetables delivered to the door in just a few minutes. Room Service indeed!

Other items like your dried grocery goods you can either pick up yourself at specialty shops and the general goods store, or have them too delivered to your door. Most of this will be 'imported' processed food that you find normally in your local supermarket. Local food shops that you would visit would handle luxury goods and specialty items.

Restaurants located in the facility have fast access to anything the farm can make - and they can request specific things be grown! Instant feedback to the production side of the house.


When you are done picking out the vegetables and have dropped them into a robotic cart that will drop them at your doorstep, you grab that sushi and decide that you wanted more than just a bite. Heading quickly to the glass elevator your ascend quickly through floor after floor of green growing things. Alighting at the top floor you exit into a posh restaurant. Today's special is Bok Choi lettuce, fresh grilled salmon with a ginger white wine sauce and a side of fresh lime juice sweetened with sugar cane sugar. All of it of course grown on site.

You opt to sit on the roof today so you can enjoy the spring day. Climbing a stairwell you exit onto a living roof where tables are set up under awnings made of solar panels. The wind is brisk but mellowed by the warm sun and broken up by the flowering bushes set along side the tables.