Food in the sky

Raised farm: Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut poses in front of an illustration of a highrise incorporated with farms. For Callebaut, this kind of self-sustaining, no-waste urban farming is no fantasy but the only option for the future. – AFP

Highrise farming idea gains ground.

IMAGINE stepping out of your highrise apartment into a sunny, plant-lined corridor, biting into an apple grown in the orchard on the fourth floor as you bid “good morning” to the farmer off to milk his cows on the fifth.