Vertical Farming

Farming with Arduino

Farming can become an information technology too. 

1. Determine your variables. I'd start with: humidity, temperature, pH. There are likely dozens of minerals/chemicals that would be advisable to track too.
2. Use sensors to track your variables.
3. Check the relationship of these variables to your crop's growth and/or nutrition content
4. Optimize these relationships

You can further improve this process by using standardized interventions. Then allow these interventions to be remotely triggered. Then pull the triggers via code. Using this simple process we could dramatically improve the quantity and quality of our food supply, at least for plants.