A rendering of a vertical farm using the Aponix Barrel Marco Tidona is the inventor behind the Aponix Aeroponic Barrel. He became a vertical farming enthusiast in 2014 after visiting some urban farms in NYC. Even though he has an international business administration degree, he has been working as software developer since 1999, building individual open-source based IT tools for his customers. Aponix is a proud member of the Association for Vertical Farming (AVF) and based in