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IGrow PreOwned 5/1/21 IGrow PreOwned 5/1/21

Square Roots Opens New Indoor Farm, Produces First Harvest

The farm’s first locally grown harvest of herbs and greens that includes basils, arugula and radish microgreens will be available for consumers to purchase on e-commerce platforms, restaurants and grocery stores across the Great Lakes region in the coming weeks

IGrow PreOwned 5/1/21 IGrow PreOwned 5/1/21

When We Started Freight Farms In 2010, There Was No Such Thing As An “Ag Tech” industry

Freight Farms has a passionate customer base of small businesses, entrepreneurs, traditional farmers, hotels, restaurants, corporate campuses, universities, and non-profits

IGrow PreOwned 4/30/21 IGrow PreOwned 4/30/21

VIDEO: One Sure Way To Save Our Soil – Don’t Use Any

The advantage of container farming is the ability to create commercial-scale production within a small space the size of your standard 40-foot shipping container through vertical farming techniques

IGrow PreOwned 4/29/21 IGrow PreOwned 4/29/21

US: NEBRASKA - The Bay, Beyond School Bells Launch Youth-Focused 'Freight Farm'

In partnership with Beyond School Bells, The Bay is launching The Greenery, a self-contained hydroponic farm housed in a repurposed shipping container

IGrow PreOwned 4/29/21 IGrow PreOwned 4/29/21

USA: BALTIMORE - Hydroponic Operation Supplies High-End Restaurants

Growing vegetables in a shipping container have opened new marketing opportunities for a Baltimore County farm

IGrow PreOwned 4/26/21 IGrow PreOwned 4/26/21

This Is What The Future of Farming Looks Like

Vertical farming is nothing less than exactly what it sounds like. As opposed to spreading crops out along the ground, beds are effectively turned on their side, and grown on vertical panels

IGrow PreOwned 4/24/21 IGrow PreOwned 4/24/21

US: KENTUCKY - AppHarvest Continues To Expand Operations, Adds New Container Farm In Madison County

Some Central Kentucky high school students will soon be able to help grow food not only for themselves but the entire region

IGrow PreOwned 4/21/21 IGrow PreOwned 4/21/21

USA: This Colorado Company Is Building Farms In Shipping Containers To Help Feed People In Need

FarmBox Foods wants people to be able to farm anywhere, allowing them to access fresh food they otherwise wouldn't be able to

IGrow PreOwned 4/21/21 IGrow PreOwned 4/21/21

Foundation Farms Corp., Announces Vertical Farm Out For Delivery

The turnkey farm package has left the ZipGrow manufacturing facility for arrival at the Red Deer area site this week

IGrow PreOwned 4/21/21 IGrow PreOwned 4/21/21

POLAND: The Only Way Is Up! Puławy Vertical Farm First In Europe To Supply Beauty And Health Industries With Plant Extract From Herbs

Vertigo Farms, located in the Puławy Science and Technology Park in the east of Poland grows 11, 000 plants on an area of 300 square metres using 4 metres high metal constructions resembling shelving units, a capacity which would require an area 100 times larger if using a traditional farm

IGrow PreOwned 4/17/21 IGrow PreOwned 4/17/21

CANADA (YT): Tackling Food Insecurity Above The 60th Parallel

ColdAcre Food Systems is based in Whitehorse, Yukon, one of the northernmost provinces in Canada. The company was incorporated in August 2019 and specializes in controlled environment agriculture.

IGrow PreOwned 4/16/21 IGrow PreOwned 4/16/21

USA: Local Farm Brings Hope To Food Desert

A hydroponic produce farm in Indianapolis is filling a need in food deserts around the city. Food deserts are areas where grocery stores aren’t easily accessible. More than 200,000 people live in food deserts in Indy, according to a study published by SAVI

IGrow PreOwned 4/14/21 IGrow PreOwned 4/14/21

ZipGrow Expands To New Facility, Inks Deal With Sodexo

ZipGrow has expanded its footprint, moving from leased premises to its own building at the corner of Cumberland and Seventh Street

IGrow PreOwned 4/14/21 IGrow PreOwned 4/14/21

CHINA: $500 Billion To Bring All World Crop Farming Indoors

China will build 2 Million hectares (20 billion square meters) of controlled environment greenhouses by 2025 and this will produce half of their vegetables and crop needs

IGrow PreOwned 4/12/21 IGrow PreOwned 4/12/21

How Square Roots Is Meeting Unprecedented Post-Pandemic Demand For Fresh, Healthy, Locally-Grown Food

Square Roots is expanding fast—deploying its latest indoor farm in Michigan in just three months

IGrow PreOwned 4/5/21 IGrow PreOwned 4/5/21

How Square Roots Is Training Next-Gen Farmers During A Pandemic

The average age of the American farmer is 58 years old. If we're going to change the food system, we need to create more pathways for young people to launch successful careers in agriculture

IGrow PreOwned 3/28/21 IGrow PreOwned 3/28/21

Vertical Growing Solutions That Are Easily Multiplied Increasing The Management Scale of Each Grower

GrowSpec offers three main products, each with numerous product lines contained therein. These three products include LED grow lights, vertical grow systems, and container farms

IGrow PreOwned 3/27/21 IGrow PreOwned 3/27/21

USA: ILLINOIS - Glenview's Wiseacre Farm To Be Featured On History Channel

"We were connected to this opportunity through Freight Farms, a hydroponic farming container company in Boston. Our farm was built and distributed by Freight Farms," said Yael Sheinfeld, whose father, Aviad, founded Wiseacre Farm

IGrow PreOwned 3/27/21 IGrow PreOwned 3/27/21

AUSTRALIA: VIDEO - Shipping Container Farms: Check Out This Craze In Modified Containers

Greenhouses, hydroponics, and mushroom farms – converted shipping containers can produce protein and vegetables for all your needs

IGrow PreOwned 3/26/21 IGrow PreOwned 3/26/21

UAE: “Hydroponic Farming Is Not Yet Deployed At A Meaningful Scale”

Greener Crop was founded in September last year with the goal of enabling hydroponic farming in the Middle East and Africa