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Cultivating Profits in a Compact Crop

Modern Farmer

Customers now include nearby restaurants, and with business booming, he’s put a 10-by-20-foot greenhouse in the backyard and hopes to upgrade to a larger vertical farming structure in the near future. With arable land at a premium— urban sprawl is a growing threat to the farming region—“I’m lucky to have a big yard,” says Mateo.