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Robert Colangelo of Green Sense Farms, Innovating Agriculture in Northwest Indiana

Robert Colangelo, Founding Farmer, and CEO of Green Sense Farms is no stranger to the environmental world or agriculture, having worked previously for Argonne National Laboratory where he tested the effects of acid rain on different crops and a variety of other environmental businesses. 

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Valoya Launches a Line of LED Grow Lights for Greenhouses

The BL-Series are sturdy yet lightweight LED bars optimized for greenhouse cultivation of a wide variety of plants.

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Urban Farming Is The Future Of Agriculture

Urban Organics opened a new facility this past summer. It’s much larger than the organization’s other locations, and could provide more than 124,700 kilograms (about 275,000 pounds) of fresh fish and nearly 215,500 kilograms (more than 475,000 pounds) of produce to the nearby area each year.

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New Houses Built, Urban Farms Expanding As Bailey Green Project Pushes Ahead

Urban Fruits & Veggies plans to begin work this spring on its first of two hydroponic greenhouses with Harmac's support and the support of the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo and First Niagara Foundation.

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What The 2018 Farm Bill Means For Urban, Suburban And Rural America

 Farm bill proponents will have to work even harder now than in the past to underscore the magnitude and impact of this legislation, and the ways in which it affects everyone living in the United States.

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Sweden’s World Food Building Aims To Improve Food Security

Although Sweden’s has ample food relative to other countries, the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) Executive Director Johan Kuylenstierna argues that the country still needs a strategy for food security.

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Urban Farms 'Critical' To Combat Hunger and Adapt To Climate Change

They may look small scale, but rooftop farms, vertical gardens, and allotments could prove crucial in fighting hunger in urban areas, researchers said Wednesday.

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U.S. Indoor Farming Startup Plenty Eyes Rollout In China, Japan

Ambitious U.S. indoor farming startup Plenty Inc is actively seeking urban sites for new farms in Chinese cities as part of a global drive to set up high-tech facilities growing organic vegetables in warehouses under banks of LED lights.

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Urban Farming Key in Fight Against Hunger and Climate Change

The urban farms sprouting up and across cities around the world aren't just feeding mouths—they are "critical to survival" and a "necessary adaptation" for developing regions and a changing climate, according to a new study.

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Welcome To The Agrihood: Golf Courses Out, Urban Farms In As upscale Developers Invite Buyers To Grow Fruit And Vegetables

Developers from Suzhou, China, to Palm Springs, California are betting that giving homeowners the opportunity to practice healthy living by growing ‘clean food’ – on vines and in olive groves and garden plots – will be attractive

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U.S. Indoor Farming Startup Plenty Eyes Rollout in China, Japan

Matt Barnard, chief executive of the San Francisco-based firm which counts Amazon Inc. founder Jeff Bezos and Japanese tech player SoftBank Corp among its backers, told Reuters on Wednesday that China could potentially host at least 300 of Plenty’s farms.

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Career Opportunities for LED Lighting Experts and Urban Agriculture Salespeople! 

Mac & Fulton Talent Partners—A recruiting firm focused on modern gardening—is working with a number of LED lighting product manufacturers in the horticultural marketplace

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Cultivating Farmers

The nation’s first USDA-recognized urban agricultural fellow program yields nine budding entrepreneurs who want to connect city residents with the power and profit that can rise from the ground

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Urban Farm Flourishes in Former Akron Tire Plant

Vegetables and flowers are not something you’d expect to see growing anywhere in Northeast Ohio right now – let alone inside an old tire plant in Akron.

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Singapore A Potential Test-Bed to Develop Food, Agritech Solutions: Koh Poh Koon

Pointing to indoor farms as an example, he said that agencies had made provisions for companies to use private industrial land to kick-start operations as they needed space.

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Urban Farms ‘Critical’ To Combat Hunger And Adapt To Climate Change

They may look small scale, but rooftop farms, vertical gardens, and allotments could prove crucial in fighting hunger in urban areas, researchers said Wednesday.

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Local Skills Showcased At Arab Innovation Academy

The winner was AG Automation, a startup that aims to use technology to transform indoor farming.

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Philips Lighting Installs LED Project At Madestein UK, Which Supplies Fresh Lettuce To Major UK Retailers

Philips Lighting today announced that Madestein UK, in Chichester, UK, which supplies fresh lettuce and herbs to the UK’s major food retailers, food service companies and wholesale markets, is installing Philips GreenPower LED toplighting

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Future Farm CEO Provides Update to Shareholders

Future Farm has experienced a flurry of activity in the past several weeks and the market has responded positively to our continued efforts to create a diversified portfolio of cannabis investments for Future Farm's shareholders

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Vertical Farming Funding On The Rise in 2017 & Predictions for 2022

Vertical farming is an industry with enormous potential to change the way we eat.

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