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Yeang has even talked in terms of future plans for "vertical farms" where residents could grow and harvest their food from the walls of their homes.

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American ecologist Dickson Despommier has been a chief advocate for vertical farms for over decade who has imagined bigger and bolder ideas than Sky Greens' farm.

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Singapore is already growing food in vertical farms.

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