Innovation, Education, Urban, Farming IGrow PreOwned 10/30/17 Innovation, Education, Urban, Farming IGrow PreOwned 10/30/17

UGA Professor: Today’s Students Will Live to See Food Shortages

University of Georgia students will see food shortages in their lifetimes, UGA professor David Berle predicts.  It’s impossible to tell how a future of food scarcity might play out, or how deep that scarcity could be, Berle said in a recent talk in the auditorium of UGA’s Odum School of Ecology.

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Farming, Education, Sustainably, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 10/30/17 Farming, Education, Sustainably, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 10/30/17

Vertical Farming: Key to Meeting Princeton University Sustainability Plan

“The goal of the project [PFVP] is to help students familiarize themselves with vertical farming here [at the University] and eventually create start-ups that employ the technique outside of the University,” explained Gauthier, adding that another goal of the project is to eventually provide produce to the dining halls as a step towards the University becoming completely self-sustaining.

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Education, Innovation, Farming, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 10/25/17 Education, Innovation, Farming, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 10/25/17

Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research Crops in Controlled Environments Convening Event

To advance crop development in controlled systems that will support economic viability, FFAR will host a convening event to help us determine the state of science and, most importantly, the areas where FFAR can catalyze research efforts to advance crop development for controlled environments.

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Education, Container Farm IGrow PreOwned 10/25/17 Education, Container Farm IGrow PreOwned 10/25/17

Taos Youth Shelter Grows Steady Funding With Sustainable Agriculture

While most farmers in Northern New Mexico have put their gardens to bed for the season, one local nonprofit is looking to harvest its first bundles of lettuce, kale and basil just after the start of the new year.

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Urban, Farming, Education IGrow PreOwned 10/19/17 Urban, Farming, Education IGrow PreOwned 10/19/17

Seven Miles to Heaven // Katie Martin

The Lab is two years old, but it’s built around a quarter-acre urban farm that’s now in its fifth growing season. Since the Lab’s inception, Freiberg, a team of volunteers, student interns and partner organizations in New Haven have built a barn, a patio and a “WikiHouse” (more on that later); terraced a hillside to create a medicinal herb garden; installed beehives; and begun cultivating mushrooms.

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Farming, Education, Innovation, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 10/16/17 Farming, Education, Innovation, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 10/16/17

Food Loves Tech Conference Will Explore Food’s Not-Too-Distant Future

The two-day expo is designed to give “attendees a chance to see, smell, touch, hear, and taste food’s not-too-distant future,” according toEdible Manhattan and Edible Brooklyn Editor-In-Chief Brian Halweil and Publisher Stephen Munshin.

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Farming, Education, Sustainably, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 10/16/17 Farming, Education, Sustainably, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 10/16/17

Viability of Indoor Urban Agriculture is Focus of Research Grant

Cornell will lead a project to answer these questions, thanks to a three-year, $2.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation, through its new funding initiative called Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy and Water Systems.

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Container Farm, Education IGrow PreOwned 10/15/17 Container Farm, Education IGrow PreOwned 10/15/17

DD2 Participates In Farm-to School Pilot Program

Tiger Corner Containers manufactures the container farm, which is just that – a mobile aeroponic farm system customized with an innovative cloud-based control system that allows growers 24-hour, 365-day monitoring of each plant from seed to sale and the ability to adjust the farm system setting from any computer or mobile device. Tiger Corner Farms Manufacturing is locally-owned and operated in Summerville.

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Farming, Education, Sustainably, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 10/14/17 Farming, Education, Sustainably, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 10/14/17

MPA ESP Student to Transform Urban Farming

I was the first engineer working at AeroFarms, where being the plant manager for over three years allowed me to experience the entire spectrum of working in the industry.

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Food, Farming, Sustainably, Education IGrow PreOwned 10/12/17 Food, Farming, Sustainably, Education IGrow PreOwned 10/12/17

'An Overwhelming Case For Action' - Expert Panel Identifies Unacceptable Toll of Food and Farming Systems On Human Health

Decisive action can be taken on the basis of what we know, the Panel found, but is held back by the unequal power of food system actors to set the terms of debate and to influence policy.

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Farming, Education, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 10/9/17 Farming, Education, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 10/9/17

Vertical Farming Looks To Go Mainstream

You’ve probably heard quite a bit in recent months about vertical farming — systems for growing food in stacked layers in completely controlled environments, applying inputs such as light, water, and fertilizer in precise amounts. While there’s some use of these systems in greenhouse settings, in many cases, urban farmers are repurposing abandoned buildings or even shipping containers.

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Farming, Education, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 10/7/17 Farming, Education, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 10/7/17

"Green Team" Growing Veggies and Fruits at Effingham, IL High School

EHS got its first Plant Tower last school year. The program has expanded this year to several Unit 40 buildings..10 at EHS, two at the junior high building, and one each at Central and at South Side.

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Urban, Farming, Education, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 10/6/17 Urban, Farming, Education, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 10/6/17

‘Corporate Industrial Food Sucks’: Highlights from NYC AgTech Week 2017

Over the course of NYC Agtech Week, attendees from across the globe had the opportunity to attend workshops, learn about investment strategy and share in local food and spirits. There were hands-on experiences with everything from hyper-controlled, in-home grow setups to the sun and soil of area community gardens.

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Farming, Education, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 10/4/17 Farming, Education, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 10/4/17

Schurz Food Science Lab | Episode 01

Nick Greens was a co-founder of the first Food Science Lab at Schurz High School.  Recently, Nick was invited back to help integrate some donated grow systems and help kick off "Year Three" of the program. Here is an inside look at Nick and the team preparing for Fall semester 2017.  

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Farming, Innovation, Education IGrow PreOwned 10/4/17 Farming, Innovation, Education IGrow PreOwned 10/4/17

Food For Thought: Bringing Farms Into Canadian Universities

The purpose of these farms is to act as living laboratories for students to understand how to grow nutritious food that works with the planet

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Container Farm, Farming, Education, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 10/2/17 Container Farm, Farming, Education, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 10/2/17

Leafy Green Machine Growing Garden-Fresh Veggies At CHS

The Leafy Green Machine, as it’s called, will bring fresh vegetables to the plates of students at CHS and across the school district, making Cumberland the first public school district in Rhode Island to boast such a facility, according to those who will run it.

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Food, Education IGrow PreOwned 9/20/17 Food, Education IGrow PreOwned 9/20/17

School and Hospital Menus Add More Plant-Based Options to Meet Growing Demand

Through an intensive program, the groups’ “Forward Food Culinary Experience” full-day trainings inspire chefs to create delicious meals without meat, eggs or dairy, while teaching the benefits of plant-based eating.

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Urban, Education, Financing IGrow PreOwned 9/14/17 Urban, Education, Financing IGrow PreOwned 9/14/17

“Too many urban neighborhoods are in food deserts that lack stores where people can purchase fresh, healthy foods, so the federal government needs to step up and improve access to nutritious foods,” said Kaptur.

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Education IGrow PreOwned 9/13/17 Education IGrow PreOwned 9/13/17

Western's Newest Garden Provides Aesthetic and Sustainable Value

The food garden aims to grow more varieties of plants than the greenhouse already on campus, because it's not restrained by the unique conditions of it, such as temperature and humidity. Ly highlights that the garden offers more space.

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Innovation, Education, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 9/12/17 Innovation, Education, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 9/12/17

Global Data Collection And The Future of Indoor Urban Farming

Harper is director of the Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab. He and a global collection of “nerd farmers” are working on a Food Computer, which closely detects – and allows you to adjust – the growing conditions of any plant in the room. Francis Lam talks with Harper about the project.

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