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Kai Fong read a news article about indoor farming on CNA The team did a general Google search, searched 4 websites. The team used Google Scholar to search up on vertical farming in Singapore. About 4-5 journal articles We used ChatGPT to get an overview on the company Sky Greens. Read journal article and used the information to synthesize for our summary.

In the article “Sky Urban Vertical Farming System” (The Index Project, n.d.), the Index Project conveys that the company Sky Greens uses the world’s first hydraulic-driven vertical system. Rainwater and gravity are heavily utilised in Sky Green’s Vertical Farming System. The rainwater works with gravity by flowing from an upper tank containing rainwater down to a water pulley system which rotates the trays towards sunlight and waters the trays of plants with rainwater. After flowing through the water pulley system, the used rainwater flows into a generator which powers the pump which directs the used rainwater back to the upper tank. Sky Greens also emerged victorious for the INDEX award in 2015, an international prestigious award given to remarkable designs that improve lives. The Index Project quotes “Although the concept of vertical farming has been around for over a century, very few have been able to master the technique like Singaporean company Sky Greens” (The Index Project, n.d