AMF Farms history

The first artistic renderings of food grown vertically was published in Life Magazine in 1909, and although the idea was actually for vertical homesteads set in the middle of farming country, it was a beginning.

In 1916, John's younger half-brother, Martin, would acquire a neighboring farm of 120-acres.

When John died in 1941, the estate farm was sold to Robert and Shirley Wilfert.

In 1962, Martin sold his farm and other farm assets to his son Robert.

In 1978, William purchased the original Joseph Wilfert farm and David purchased the house on his grandfather Martin's farm.

By 2001, Professor Despommier had the first official outline of a commercial vertical farm, detailing the specifics of water and nutrient systems and other early technology systems of modern indoor vertical farms.

Since 2002, Mark has worked in a wide range of advanced roles, putting forth his expertise to Process Engineering, Management, Environmental Consulting, PR, Operations, and C-Level Director positions.

In 2003, Peter founded Botany B.V through the acquisition of the research facility of Wageningen University Research Station in Horst, and quickly built a team of cultivation managers to start operating greenhouse R&D facilities for commercial companies.

In 2009, Botany acquired Aegisto, a GEP-accredited company for research and registration research of pesticides.

Since 2012 he has conducted extensive research on the subject of urban agriculture and established contact with knowledgeable parties in the field.

Anthony has been Vice-President of the QualityCoast Award since 2014, a programme of the Coastal & Marine Union (EUCC) and partly funded by the European Commission.

Tom has more than 10 years of proven experience as CEO in global industrial public companies, such as Deceuninck (Euronext Brussel – tickercode: DECB) and Balta (Euronext Brussel – tickercode: BALTA) where he realised an IPO in 2017.