The whole point of a vertical farm is to create an environment where you can grow plants, stacked on top of each other in ...

Florence Kamunya harvests peas on her farm at Mutaga village within Sagana Settlement Scheme in Mathira, Nyeri County. PHOTO: KIBATA KIHU/STANDARD Peas grow in pods which contain several seeds ...

Note: Data reflects 2017-18 marketing year for canola, wheat and barley; calendar 2018 for peas, beef and pork.

"I view urban agriculture as a wonderful Trojan horse," says Nicolas Brassier, owner of Peas&Love, an urban farm that has expanded to seven sites across France and Belgium in the past two years.

Cowpea is the common name for the legumes known to botanists by the scientific name Vigna unguiculata. But they’re also called “field peas” or “Southern peas” for the U.S. region where they are ...