Vertical farming is the practice of farming – only going up! Many of the standard ways to vertical farm is to plant your crops in stacked layers. This is what stacked layers looks like:

Vertical shelf of Vegetable gardening

This works well if you have some space, however, if you live in a condo, apartment, loft, etc, and you may not have much outdoor space. In that case you may want to use the wall or fence. Here is what that would look like:

Beautiful vertical garden in city around office building

There is also a growing group of individuals, community groups and even businesses who are re-purposing cargo containers to house vertical gardens. Check out  SquareRootsGrow.com to an example cargo container gardening.

Here is another way to start small:  This product works well for small crops like strawberries and herbs.

The best part of vertical farming, you can even start small.