Picture a plate of vegetables before you, not harvested by muddy-handed farmers out in the fields, but cultivated as a technological feat within a vertical farming tower built of metal and plastic. How would you react? In 2018, while in Berlin, I found myself utterly captivated by the vertical farming…
Twenty hours later, my feet finally touched down, sinking into the deep snow of Lapland, northern Sweden. It was seven in the morning, and the skies above Jokkmokk had yet to fully brighten, yet the glare reflecting off the surrounding white expanse was already sufficient to make out the silhouettes…


