While the rest of the Wyoming is fast asleep, there's a secret world in Lander filled with thousands of green and growing things that are all wide awake, bathed in bright LED sunshine.
The green and growing things are mostly stuff you'd eat in a salad — big Bibb lettuces and crinkly, crunchy kale. But there's also mounds of emerald-green basil, whose leaves fill the air with the most enchanting aroma whenever a passerby happens to brush the leaves, no matter how gently.
These green creatures live in a most unlikely space. An 8-by-40-foot shipping container that a casual visitor could easily mistake for a storage unit. But open the doors and an amazing George Jetson-style farm is revealed.
Four sliding walls with 88 growing panels that have five growth channels each are growing hundreds upon hundreds of plants vertically, like some sort of spaceship from the future. A fully automated computer system is also looking after each and every plant's needs, deciding when it's time to turn on the bright LED sunshine each day, as well as delivering the right amount of water and nutrients and keeping the humidity just right.
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