Urban, Farming, Education IGrow PreOwned 11/27/17 Urban, Farming, Education IGrow PreOwned 11/27/17

Sustaining Communities Through Urban Agriculture

“The university defines urban agriculture as the growing, processing and distribution of food crops and animal products by and for the local community within an urban environment.

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Urban, Farming, Aquaponics, Residential IGrow PreOwned 11/27/17 Urban, Farming, Aquaponics, Residential IGrow PreOwned 11/27/17

Made-in-Toronto Devices Aim to Make Indoor Gardening Simple

Aamar Khwaja is the founder of Modgarden, a modular indoor farming system, and his mission is to enable people to produce enough food to yield a salad a day.

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Farming, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/27/17 Farming, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/27/17

Skywell to Design and Build Sustainable On-Campus Indoor Farms for Foxconn

The new indoor farms, the latest of Foxconn’s green CSR initiatives, will produce high-quality vegetables and fruits, which will improve the variety and enhance the nutrition of employee meals provided at Foxconn’s on-campus cafeterias.

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Farming, Greenhouse, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/27/17 Farming, Greenhouse, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/27/17

Vertical Farm Under Construction At New RiNo Development

Construction is underway on the company’s first greenhouse, a 7,000-square-foot structure at the new S’park development on the corner of 25th and Lawrence streets.

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Urban, Farming, Organic, Aquaponics, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/27/17 Urban, Farming, Organic, Aquaponics, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/27/17

Winter Doesn't Faze 87,000-Square-Foot Aquaponics Farm in St. Paul

Pentair and Urban Organics are partners in this 87,000-square-foot indoor fish and produce farm in the old Schmidt brewery that provides greens and seafood for grocery stores, co-ops, and restaurants.

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Urban, Farming, Hydroponics, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/27/17 Urban, Farming, Hydroponics, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/27/17

Indoor Farming Feeding Hundreds Each Day in Connecticut

Trifecta Ecosystems Incorporated has just fully filled out its new downtown Meriden aquaponics facility with thousands of plants growing in about 12 inches of water vertically and on a flat surface.

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Urban, Farming, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/26/17 Urban, Farming, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/26/17

A Jeff Bezos-Backed Vertical Farm is Coming to the Seattle Area

Indoor farming startup Plenty is building its first full-scale farm in the Seattle area. Plenty snagged $200 million in Series B funding in July from investors including SoftBank's Vision Fund, Alphabet (Nasdaq: GOOGL) Chairman Eric Schmidt and Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) founder and CEO Jeff Bezos' Bezos Expeditions.

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Organic, Hydroponics, Aquaponics, Farming, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/25/17 Organic, Hydroponics, Aquaponics, Farming, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/25/17

NOSB Votes Not To Ban Hydroponics From Organic Certification

The U.S. National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) has controversially voted against banning hydroponic and aquaponic crops being eligible for organic certification, in a move that has provoked strong opinions from the sector’s stakeholders. 

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Greenhouse, Hydroponics, Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/25/17 Greenhouse, Hydroponics, Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/25/17

Cornell Group Explores Future of Indoor Farming

Known as controlled environment agriculture (CEA), the systems combine greenhouse environmental controls such as heating and lighting with hydroponic and soilless production, enabling year-round production of fresh vegetables.

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Farming, Innovation, Research, Technology IGrow PreOwned 11/24/17 Farming, Innovation, Research, Technology IGrow PreOwned 11/24/17

Sensors Applied to Plant Leaves Warn of Water Shortage

MIT engineers have created sensors that can be printed onto plant leaves and reveal when the plants are experiencing a water shortage. This kind of technology could not only save neglected houseplants but, more importantly, give farmers an early warning when their crops are in danger.

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Urban, Farming, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/24/17 Urban, Farming, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/24/17

Amazon's Jeff Bezos Invests in Vertical Produce Farming Company Plenty

, according to a report from getting into the fresh produce businessA new investment by Jeff Bezos has the man behind the Amazon Whole Foods buyout Business Insider

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LED, Farming, Hydroponics, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/23/17 LED, Farming, Hydroponics, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/23/17

Philips Lighting To Install its First LED Grow Light Project in New Zealand at Gourmet Mokai

"Over the years, our LED technologies have helped tomato growers across the globe produce better quality fruit and higher yields, with more control over their growing climate.

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Urban, Farming, Innovation, Technology, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/23/17 Urban, Farming, Innovation, Technology, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/23/17

3D Printed Connectors Make This Startup's Sustainable Indoor Garden Grow

The Milan-based startup works to develop scalable, sustainable and sharing economy-based solutions, so customers can improve their production and supply of fresh, healthy, home-grown food.

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Innovation, Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/23/17 Innovation, Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/23/17

Spider Webs and Succulents Inspire This Water-Collection Startup

The core team behind NexLoop, a biomimicry venture, has been collaborating on its nature-inspired water collection technology for almost two years.

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Solar, Greenhouse, Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/23/17 Solar, Greenhouse, Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/23/17

Solar Greenhouses Generate electricity and Grow Crops at The Same time, UC Santa Cruz Study Reveals

"We have demonstrated that 'smart greenhouses' can capture solar energy for electricity without reducing plant growth, which is pretty exciting," 

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Farming, LED, Technology, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/22/17 Farming, LED, Technology, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/22/17

Valoya Launches a New Line of State-of-the-Art LED Grow Lights

These are heavy duty, research grade luminaires designed to produce high and uniform light output over a long period of time. Combined with Valoya’s patented spectra and the support of a team of photobiologists, BX-Series is a smart choice of LED grow lights.

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Farming, Innovation, Technology, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/22/17 Farming, Innovation, Technology, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/22/17

Autogrow Launches Cloud Application To Grow Anywhere And On Any Device

Global ag-tech company Autogrow has further revolutionized indoor agriculture with an API-enabled cloud application giving growers access to grow anywhere, on any operating system and viewed on any device.

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Farming, Innovation, Solar, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/22/17 Farming, Innovation, Solar, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/22/17

Amazon’s Seattle Campus Is Using Data Center Next Door As A Furnace. It’s Pretty Neat

Using “waste heat” from digital infrastructure to stay warm downtown.

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Farming, Restaurant, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/22/17 Farming, Restaurant, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/22/17

IKEA Wants ‘Radical Change’ For its Food Business to Promote Sustainability

Another area of change could be in growing its own produce through vertical farming. The company recently invested inAeroFarms, the New Jersey-based indoor farming group.

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Urban, Farming, Aquaponics, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/22/17 Urban, Farming, Aquaponics, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 11/22/17

Three Startups That Wowed Jack Ma And Won Alibaba's Backing

After hearing 600 pitches spanning fintech and robotics to healthy aging, three startups will share US$3 million in backing from an entrepreneurs fund set up by billionaire Jack Ma.

 

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