Forward Greens Grows Hundreds of Pounds of Fresh, Local Produce Every Day—All From Inside a Vancouver, Wash., Warehouse
When Ken Kaneko worked at Apple Inc. as a global supply chain manager, the company sent him on a business trip to Japan that changed his life. He visited an indoor farm, where lettuce and other crops grow under LED lights, often in vast, abandoned factory buildings. Indoor agriculture has caught on during the last decade in Japan because labor and land are both scarce there.