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WINNERS ANNOUNCED:  Hackathon to Grow Crops on Mars Sees ‘Duckweed’ Take Prize for Best Solution 

‘Just Food’ and nine other teams hacked for two days on software, data or design solutions involving plant biology, controlled environment agriculture and the Mars environment. The judges looked for originality, sustainability, scalability and the potential for reproducibility on Earth.

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Sky High Veggies? Urban Farming Grows in Unexpected Places

Farmscape, the largest urban farming company on the West Coast, has created more than 700 edible gardens in unexpected places.

“We do anything from a couple of raised beds to giant rooftop projects,” said Hermanson, who started growing food as landscaping for wealthy families in Malibu who wanted “kitchen gardens” without the gardening part.

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Student-Grown Salad In The School Cafeteria? These Kids Dig It

Architect Michael Marshall designed the rooftop farm, one of several gardens at Horace Mann, during the school’s renovation three years ago.  “The connection to the exterior is not an accident in this design. A lot of these young kids, when they grow up, rooftop gardens are going to be very common as far as sustainability and urban living. Why not prepare them?” Marshall said.

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USDA Advisory Board Blocks Ban Against Using Hydroponics In Organic Farming

Hydroponics is one of the fastest-growing fields in agriculture today. By growing plants in water and "feeding" them solutions of nutrients they need, crops can grow at higher yields over a faster period of time while drastically reducing water consumption and land space. 

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Green Automation Americas LLC Expands Markets in North America

Over 70 percent of the lettuce sold in the U.S. grows in California, an area of the country plagued with water-shortage issues. With traditional farming methods, over 15 gallons of water is required to grow one pound of lettuce. The labor force required to harvest, package and ship lettuce throughout the country has become more and more cost prohibitive.

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The Genetic Freedom in the Salad Bowl: Food Variance and the Decrease in Costs of Vertical Farming

It seems the barrier to vertical farming proliferation isn't cost, it's time. Over the past decade or so, vertical farming has gone from being the concept of one man, a professor named Dickson D. Despommier, Ph.D., to a worldwide industry with one company, Plenty, pulling in $200 million dollars in Series B Funding.

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