According to data from Canada's 2021 Census of Agriculture, Ontario is losing 319 acres of farmland daily.
This number is likely to increase after a housing law passed earlier this month by the provincial government expands development into parts of Ontario's protected Greenbelt.
A startup based in Welland, Ontario with ambitions to expand across the country says it has a solution that will produce food on less land. It's a solution poised to be a burgeoning growth sector in agriculture as the impact of climate change and development reduce the amount of arable land: vertical farming.
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