Growing crops indoors in a tough, tough business, even for high-return greens

In 2018 I wrote about a company called Freight Farms that had grew lettuce for Concord’s Marriott Hotel inside one of its hydroponic trailers. It was one of several indoor-crop-growing startups that garnered a lot of attention at the time.

Alas, it just went bankrupt. The energy cost of replacing sunlight is a killer.