Up to Pasture: local artist has vision to turn Landmark into vertical farm

Turning the abandoned and blighted Landmark Hotel into a vertical urban garden may sound like a fanciful, farfetched idea, but at least local artist Russell Richards has an idea. The same can't be said for the City or the hotel's various owners, who have offered only empty promises.

"I suspect the Landmark is never going to be completed," says Richards, …