IGrow PreOwned 8/12/21 IGrow PreOwned 8/12/21

Urban Farming Combats Food Deserts In Southeast Fort Worth With Community Empowerment

On the western edge of Glencrest Civic League in Southeast Fort Worth sits a property that soon could become an epicenter of education and agriculture for the community.

IGrow PreOwned 6/21/21 IGrow PreOwned 6/21/21

USA: MASSACHUSETTS - New Partnership Will Serve Meals For 400 Youth Per Day

Town to Table, a Boston-based container farm company, announced a partnership with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South, an organization that accommodates kids in out-of-school-time hours

IGrow PreOwned 1/21/21 IGrow PreOwned 1/21/21

Indoor Farming Industry Gets Boost From COVID-19

The coronavirus pandemic has caused a major shift in dining out and led many Americans to become more familiar with their kitchens than ever before

IGrow PreOwned 1/18/21 IGrow PreOwned 1/18/21

PUERTO RICO: Indoor Vertical Farming Jumpstarts Agribusiness

Francisco Santana founded Grupo Vesan in 2015 with a simple concept: farming differently and more effectively. He looked to indoor vertical farming and became the first company in Puerto Rico to adopt that model

IGrow PreOwned 1/17/21 IGrow PreOwned 1/17/21

The Mexican Tec Graduates Who Are Using Vertical Farming To Eradicate Hunger

Vertical farms use 90% less water than traditional agriculture and can meet the challenge of feeding more than 9 billion people

IGrow PreOwned 10/21/20 IGrow PreOwned 10/21/20

GUAM: Small Urban Farms Can Be An Oasis For Underserved Neighborhoods

IGrow PreOwned 11/15/19 IGrow PreOwned 11/15/19

Fresh Greens From A Shipping Container In Alaska’s Aleutian Islands? Believe It

A young family has begun selling the first year-round, locally grown commercial produce in the unforgiving climate of Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands. Aleutian Greens co-owner Blaine Shaishnikoff said last week that two storms had just blown through the community — and the lettuce and herbs, nestled inside shipping containers set up as hydroponic farms, were unscathed

IGrow PreOwned 9/11/19 IGrow PreOwned 9/11/19

Our Food Is Killing Too Many of Us

And Americans are sick — much sicker than many realize. More than 100 million adults — almost half the entire adult population — have pre-diabetes or diabetes. Cardiovascular disease afflicts about 122 million people and causes roughly 840,000 deaths each year, or about 2,300 deaths each day. Three in four adults are overweight or obese. More Americans are sick, in other words, than are healthy

IGrow PreOwned 1/18/19 IGrow PreOwned 1/18/19

Dollar Stores Are Taking Over the Grocery Business, and It’s Bad News for Public Health and Local Economies

A new report shows growth of dollar stores in low-income and rural communities furthers inequity and pushes out local businesses.

IGrow PreOwned 10/21/18 IGrow PreOwned 10/21/18

Cities Can And Must Work To End Food Deserts Within Their Communities

Limited access to healthy food continues to affect urban communities across the U.S., including the City of Henderson, Nevada, where I am privileged to serve as mayor.

IGrow PreOwned 7/11/18 IGrow PreOwned 7/11/18

Transforming Food and Health in Native Communities Through Vertical Farming

7 Generations, a Washington State-based AgTech farm development and food distribution company is introducing indoor vertical farms to Native communities across the United States. The company’s big vision is to transform the health of Native communities by bringing AgTech education and indoor vertical farms into Native American classrooms

IGrow PreOwned 7/10/18 IGrow PreOwned 7/10/18

US (MO): Aquaponics Facility To Alleviate Food Desert

Nonprofit Nile Valley Aquaponics is raising fish in a Kansas City food desert—and they’re creating jobs, providing healthy food and promoting sustainable urban farming in the process

IGrow PreOwned 6/30/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/30/18

Giant Garden Comes To Food Desert – Growing Food, Jobs And More

One of the Chicago's biggest food deserts now has one of the biggest gardens in town.

IGrow PreOwned 6/18/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/18/18

Hydroponics, Sustainable Solution in Agriculture Now in Togo

Scott Massey is a graduate of Purdue University as well as the founder of Heliponix LLC; his startup. This developed startup is a kitchen tool, which grows garden vegetables all year and he believed it would offer sustainable solutions to many farmers.