. >> in california, 400,000 acres are unplanted at a cost of $800 million in loft revenue because of the drought. >> in bosnia, the worst floods swamped 172,000 acres of crops in may. devastating the country's agricultural industry. last wint inside polar vortex took a toll as the impact made big news on the vineyard. >> a crisis on the lake erie shore line. >> some call it global warming, global weirding. >> reporter: robert, founder of green sense farms is not worried about mother nature. he raises his crops here, inside a 30,000 square food warehouse, 50 miles outside of chicago. >> they are growing crops and warehouses, farmers say they can bring local produce from farm to table in places like this in as little as 24 hours. >> what are some of the major this? >> they take weather out of the equation. every day is consistent and the same. we get perfect plants every day. >> reporter: green sense farms opened doors in may and is supplying 1,000 cases of produce to stores and restaurants in the midwest. how do you meet the challenges? >> there's no book. no one has done this before.

. >> three years another drought have forced growers to lead 400,000 acres unplanted.ut robert founder of green sense farms isn't worried about mother nature. that's because he raises his crops here. by growing crops in warehouses indoor farmers say they can bring fresh local produce from farm to table in places like this, in as little as 24 hours. >> what are some of the major advantages of indoor farming in. >> we take weather out of the equation. every day is consistent, and it's the same. so we always get perfect plants every day. >> green sense farms opened it's doors in may, and already it is supplying 1,000 cases of produce a month to stores and restaurants. that pink glow as a result of one of the major invasions, minute than 3,000 red and blue grow lights. how plants use sun lite, carbon dioxide and water, it turns out they don't need the whole spectrum to do they just need certain colors. >> these are specially made to really nail photo sin think sis for the plant. it occurs at those two wave lents. what we are down is saying here is the lite that you really

they were unplanted, unpainted, piled high with old junk. it made idaho springs look like an old ghost town in the process of decay. this was not a good first impression for unsuspecting visitors. for small town boosters and business owners trying to capitalize on the exploding post-war automobile vacation industry, it would no longer be enough, now they had to take a tourist-eye view of their own hometown to consider what kind of landscape and atmosphere would be needed to attract vacationers and to compete with other communities that were trying to do exactly the same thing. so in short, already with this very first stretch of i-70 to be built up in high country, we can already see a hint of how large scale post tourist development would change people's view of the land the way people related to place and the ways they saw fit to take care of it. so, i'll dive into this story now as sort of a condensed version of the story i tell in "vacationland" about how tourism came to be in this region. really, making the high country seem like a grea

they were unplanted, unpainted, piled high with old junk. it made idaho springs look like an old ghost town in the process of decay. this was not a good first impression for unsuspecting visitors. for small town boosters and business owners trying to capitalize on the exploding post-war automobile vacation industry, it would no longer be enough, now they had to take a tourist-eye view of their own hometown to consider what kind of landscape and atmosphere would be needed to attract vacationers and to compete with other communities that were trying to do exactly the same thing. so in short, already with this very first stretch of i-70 to be built up in high country, we can already see a hint of how large scale post tourist development would change people's view of the land the way people related to place and the ways they saw fit to take care of it. so, i'll dive into this story now as sort of a condensed version of the story i tell in "vacationland" about how tourism came to be in this region. really, making the high country seem like a grea