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Something Fishy About Downtown Toronto’s Waterwheel Farms

Plentiful crops aren’t the only benefit of aquaponic farming. Since crops are grown indoors, they’re resistant to poor weather and climate change. The closed-loop system also uses 90 percent less water than traditional agriculture. The only water that leaves the system is what’s used by the plants, and the fish are edible, as well as the vegetables.

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This Company Wants To Solve The World's Hunger Problem. Here's How

Plenty, a new San Francisco–based startup, hopes to step up to that plate. The Jeff Bezos–backed endeavor, which has raised $200 million to date, is dedicated to bringing healthy food to everyone in the world, thanks to a unique system of vertical farms.   Plenty, a new San Francisco–based startup, hopes to step up to that plate. The Jeff Bezos–backed endeavor, which has raised $200 million to date, is dedicated to bringing healthy food to everyone in the world, thanks to a unique system of vertical farms

 

 

 

Plenty, a new San Francisco–based startup, hopes to step up to that plate. The Jeff Bezos–backed endeavor, which has raised $200 million to date, is dedicated to bringing healthy food to everyone in the world, thanks to a unique system of vertical farms.

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New Start-Ups Aiming to Make Singapore As The First Food Sustainable City

Another Makanpreneur start-up, E-Farmer Market, is building an online platform to connect hobby farmers with the local community. Farmers can trade their home grown foods with their neighbours, giving visibility to Singapore’s underground homegrown farmers, and reduce food wastage by redistributing food surpluses.

 

 

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Why Some Young Workers Are Leaving White-Collar Jobs for Farming

“Food jobs have steadily left our cities for the past 100 years, and local food demand is driving production that is now bringing some of these jobs back to the communities in which their food is produced,” Paul Lightfoot, CEO of BrightFarms, told Civil Eats. “This has no downside for urban markets—it only increases jobs and economic activities.”

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Tortuga AgTech Raises $2.4m Seed Round for Indoor Ag Robotics

Tortuga AgTech, a Denver-based robotics startup targeting controlled-environment fruit and vegetable growers has raised a $2.4 million Seed round.  Tortuga Agtech is developing robotic systems for harvesting fresh produce in controlled environments, from indoor hydroponics to greenhouses, starting with strawberries.

 

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Indoor Ag-Con Asia Returns to Singapore, Introduces Indoor AG Pitch Competition with $150,000 In Cash Grant Prizes

The indoor agriculture industry has grown rapidly as consumer demand for fresh, local produce anytime anywhere is forcing shifts in global supply chains. Indoor Ag-Con is the premier event covering the technology of growing crops in indoor systems, using hydroponic, aeroponic and aquaponic techniques.

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Akron-Based Vigeo Gardens Nets Produce Deal With Quicken Loans Arena

Vincent Peterson, Mark Preston and Jacob Craine started Akron-based Vigeo Gardens as a small hydroponic garden in Craine's basement in 2014. It has quickly grown into a 6,100-square-foot, high-efficiency vertical farm with 2017 sales set to exceed $750,000.

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NATUFIA Kitchen Garden, Your Connected Garden In Your Kitchen.

Natufia brings you its own solution thanks to its "NATUFIA Kitchen Garden". In the same concept as these wine cellar fridges, the NATUFIA Kitchen Garden is a wardrobe. A cupboard equipped with a whole system of filtration and pot which will welcome various vegetables.

 

 

Natufia brings you its own solution thanks to its "NATUFIA Kitchen Garden". In the same concept as these wine cellar fridges, the NATUFIA Kitchen Garden is a wardrobe. A cupboard equipped with a whole system of filtration and pot which will welcome various vegetables.

 

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