Technical visits, open to all registered participants, took place on January 19th and attendees had the opportunity to choose between the following activities:
- Day excursion to Milan, including a visit to Agricola Moderna, a commercial vertical farm located in Milan's outskirts, and to Bosco Verticale, a complex of two residential greened skyscrapers hosting a vertical forest.:
- Social and experimental vertical farming in Bologna, including a visit at AlmaVFarm, the experimental vertical farm of the University of Bologna, altogether with other experimental facilities (e.g. climate-controlled growth cabinets for LED lighting studies, crop phenotyping tools), and commercial installations including cultivation cabinets for home indoor farming, as well as shipping containers equipped for either mushroom or vegetable plant cultivation at SalusWSpace., a social cohousing space.
