The high profile endorsements of vertical farming keep on coming in. Right on the tails of Sting’s announcement that he is making a documentary about vertical farming, Richard Daley supports plans for an urban farm in Chicago. According to the Journal Sentinal:

The Chicago Sustainable Manufacturing Center is working with the Illinois Institute of Technology to develop plans for The Plant, a vertical farm that would occupy a former meatpacking plant in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood. One part of The Plant would raise tilapia, then recycle the wastewater from the fish tanks to nourish the plants being grown in another section of the building.

Daley linked his concerns about land use to his support for vertical farming: “”We have to keep agricultural land, we destroy the best farmland in America . . . in Illinois.”