Welcome to iGrow News, Your Source for the World of Indoor Vertical Farming Urban, Farming IGrow PreOwned 3/2/18 Urban, Farming IGrow PreOwned 3/2/18 Urban Farm Business Upset Over County Regulations Dogpatch Urban Gardens started small. Now they have more crops, more customers, and more county regulations they have to follow. Read More Farming, Education IGrow PreOwned 3/2/18 Farming, Education IGrow PreOwned 3/2/18 How To Raise ‘Farm To Table’ Kids, Even If You Don’t Live On (or near) A Farm Every night, my 4-year-old son sits down at the dinner table, carefully inspects his food, and asks, “What IS this? And who made it?” Read More Farming, Conference, Urban, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 3/1/18 Farming, Conference, Urban, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 3/1/18 SKYBERRIES Conference Celebrates Two Years of Vertical Farm Institute International conference SKYBERRIES invites urban farmers, researchers, and pioneers to Vienna, Austria, to discuss the future of agriculture from February 28 to March 2, 2018. Read More Restaurant, Greenhouse, Farming, Urban IGrow PreOwned 3/1/18 Restaurant, Greenhouse, Farming, Urban IGrow PreOwned 3/1/18 Dubai Chef Offers Tours of His Greenhouse Buenaventura grows several different kinds of lettuce, a range of herbs, tomatoes, peppers, aubergines and edible flowers in a space that can’t be much bigger than 40 square metres. Read More Greenhouse, CEA, Farming, Research IGrow PreOwned 3/1/18 Greenhouse, CEA, Farming, Research IGrow PreOwned 3/1/18 What Are The Production And Training Issues Facing Controlled Environment Agriculture Growers? Ohio State University professor Chieri Kubota is focused on helping to resolve the production and training challenges facing controlled environment growers. Read More Urban, Farming, Hydroponic, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 3/1/18 Urban, Farming, Hydroponic, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 3/1/18 Big Data Suggests Big Potential For Urban Farming Using Google’s Earth Engine software, as well as population, meteorological, and other datasets, the researchers determined that, if fully implemented in cities around the world, urban agriculture could produce as much as 180 million metric tons of food a year—perhaps 10 percent of the global output of legumes, roots, and tubers, and vegetable crops. Read More Farming, Education, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 3/1/18 Farming, Education, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 3/1/18 How To Put The Youth Back In Agriculture Misconceptions about working in agriculture have long bogged down the number of young people opting for a career in this industry. Read More Hydroponic, Farming, Education IGrow PreOwned 3/1/18 Hydroponic, Farming, Education IGrow PreOwned 3/1/18 Training Workshop On Hydroponics Agriculture Concludes At Pir Mehr Ali Shah, Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi A 15-day training workshop to impart training to the farmers of Punjab on Hydroponics Agriculture under the project 'Testing indigenous hydroponics model for vegetable growing' concluded here on Monday at Pir Mehr Ali Shah, Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi (PMAS-AAUR). Read More Farming, Education, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 3/1/18 Farming, Education, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 3/1/18 Rules For Growing Microgreens Indoors This blog post touches on basic guidelines to follow while you grow microgreens. There are many specifics that need to be followed on your journey. Read More Farming, Technology, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18 Farming, Technology, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18 This Startup Is Building The Techiest Indoor Farm In The World Indoor vertical farming startup Bowery is in the process of building a second facility which it claims will be the most technologically sophisticated indoor farm in the world. Read More Farming, Technology, Research, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18 Farming, Technology, Research, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18 Indoor Vertical Farming: Digging Deep in Data Indoor vertical farms, which are sometimes called “plant factories”, rely on hydroponics. This soil-less water-based way of growing plants has been around for decades. What is different now is the arrival of cloud computing, which has given rise to data-based techniques aimed at producing better yields and better food at cheaper cost and in sustainable ways. Read More Greenhouse, Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18 Greenhouse, Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18 Increased Consumer Demand Drives Strawberry And Lettuce Greenhouse Expansion Mucci Farms is in the third year as well as the third expansion phase of its greenhouse grown strawberry program. Smuccies™ were commercially launched in 2016 on a 12-acre site. Read More USDA, Organic, Hydroponic, Farming, Aeroponic IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18 USDA, Organic, Hydroponic, Farming, Aeroponic IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18 Organic Certification For Hydroponic Systems As hydroponic and aquaponic farms have flourished across the country in recent years, debates about their suitability for organic certification have reached a fever pitch. Read More Residential, Farming, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18 Residential, Farming, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18 VH Hydroponics Pilots New Line of Hydroponic Growing Cabinets in Student Union VH Hydroponics is an agricultural technology company headquartered in Anchorage. The company, founded in 2014, has a mission to “provide an alternate way to source fresh, locally grown and sustainable produce in remote communities, year-round,” as stated on their website. Read More Farming, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18 Farming, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18 Menasha's Fork Farms is Changing The Face of Farming -- And Helping Schools, Pantries Fork Farms is a small, young, agriculture technology company that manufactures plastic hydroponic growing modules. Inside each one, ruffled rows of lettuce grow vertically without a speck of soil or sunlight. Read More Supermarket, Farming, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18 Supermarket, Farming, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18 German Startup Leads The Way In Urban Farming Infarm builds in-store farming units and software to manage the growth of crops. The farms are operated by Infarm’s own platform for monitoring thousands of different data points and personalizing the farm to respective needs, which ensures that the produce is being grown as near to perfect as possible. Read More Urban, Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/27/18 Urban, Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/27/18 In Less That 2 Days After Our Official Launch We Reached Our $15,000 Goal! I'm going through a range of emotions. Honestly, launching this Kickstarter campaign was a risky launch as it made us vulnerable and exposed. You all rallied and lifted us up to validate the farm! My heart is full. Read More Urban, Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/26/18 Urban, Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/26/18 Dear Local Government: Actions Speak Larger Than Words Dogpatch Urban Gardens is a female-run urban farm located in Des Moines, Iowa. The farm is facing major hurdles due to changes in policy/regulations by the local county. Read More Farming, LED, Lighting, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/26/18 Farming, LED, Lighting, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/26/18 Independence LED Lighting Ready With Program To Back Changes To SNAP Independence LED Lighting stated that it was shovel ready for a pilot programme in Philadelphia to support proposed changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programme (SNAP), included in the President’s Budget for Financial Year 2019. Read More Urban, Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/25/18 Urban, Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/25/18 Startup Community Brainstorms To Save A Nonprofit ‘Vertical’ Farm In Midtown Anchorage Seeds of Change, near Arctic Boulevard and 26th Avenue, occupies a 10,000-square-foot warehouse designed for high-tech agriculture. Read More Newer Posts Older Posts
Urban, Farming IGrow PreOwned 3/2/18 Urban, Farming IGrow PreOwned 3/2/18 Urban Farm Business Upset Over County Regulations Dogpatch Urban Gardens started small. Now they have more crops, more customers, and more county regulations they have to follow. Read More
Farming, Education IGrow PreOwned 3/2/18 Farming, Education IGrow PreOwned 3/2/18 How To Raise ‘Farm To Table’ Kids, Even If You Don’t Live On (or near) A Farm Every night, my 4-year-old son sits down at the dinner table, carefully inspects his food, and asks, “What IS this? And who made it?” Read More
Farming, Conference, Urban, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 3/1/18 Farming, Conference, Urban, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 3/1/18 SKYBERRIES Conference Celebrates Two Years of Vertical Farm Institute International conference SKYBERRIES invites urban farmers, researchers, and pioneers to Vienna, Austria, to discuss the future of agriculture from February 28 to March 2, 2018. Read More
Restaurant, Greenhouse, Farming, Urban IGrow PreOwned 3/1/18 Restaurant, Greenhouse, Farming, Urban IGrow PreOwned 3/1/18 Dubai Chef Offers Tours of His Greenhouse Buenaventura grows several different kinds of lettuce, a range of herbs, tomatoes, peppers, aubergines and edible flowers in a space that can’t be much bigger than 40 square metres. Read More
Greenhouse, CEA, Farming, Research IGrow PreOwned 3/1/18 Greenhouse, CEA, Farming, Research IGrow PreOwned 3/1/18 What Are The Production And Training Issues Facing Controlled Environment Agriculture Growers? Ohio State University professor Chieri Kubota is focused on helping to resolve the production and training challenges facing controlled environment growers. Read More
Urban, Farming, Hydroponic, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 3/1/18 Urban, Farming, Hydroponic, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 3/1/18 Big Data Suggests Big Potential For Urban Farming Using Google’s Earth Engine software, as well as population, meteorological, and other datasets, the researchers determined that, if fully implemented in cities around the world, urban agriculture could produce as much as 180 million metric tons of food a year—perhaps 10 percent of the global output of legumes, roots, and tubers, and vegetable crops. Read More
Farming, Education, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 3/1/18 Farming, Education, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 3/1/18 How To Put The Youth Back In Agriculture Misconceptions about working in agriculture have long bogged down the number of young people opting for a career in this industry. Read More
Hydroponic, Farming, Education IGrow PreOwned 3/1/18 Hydroponic, Farming, Education IGrow PreOwned 3/1/18 Training Workshop On Hydroponics Agriculture Concludes At Pir Mehr Ali Shah, Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi A 15-day training workshop to impart training to the farmers of Punjab on Hydroponics Agriculture under the project 'Testing indigenous hydroponics model for vegetable growing' concluded here on Monday at Pir Mehr Ali Shah, Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi (PMAS-AAUR). Read More
Farming, Education, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 3/1/18 Farming, Education, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 3/1/18 Rules For Growing Microgreens Indoors This blog post touches on basic guidelines to follow while you grow microgreens. There are many specifics that need to be followed on your journey. Read More
Farming, Technology, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18 Farming, Technology, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18 This Startup Is Building The Techiest Indoor Farm In The World Indoor vertical farming startup Bowery is in the process of building a second facility which it claims will be the most technologically sophisticated indoor farm in the world. Read More
Farming, Technology, Research, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18 Farming, Technology, Research, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18 Indoor Vertical Farming: Digging Deep in Data Indoor vertical farms, which are sometimes called “plant factories”, rely on hydroponics. This soil-less water-based way of growing plants has been around for decades. What is different now is the arrival of cloud computing, which has given rise to data-based techniques aimed at producing better yields and better food at cheaper cost and in sustainable ways. Read More
Greenhouse, Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18 Greenhouse, Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18 Increased Consumer Demand Drives Strawberry And Lettuce Greenhouse Expansion Mucci Farms is in the third year as well as the third expansion phase of its greenhouse grown strawberry program. Smuccies™ were commercially launched in 2016 on a 12-acre site. Read More
USDA, Organic, Hydroponic, Farming, Aeroponic IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18 USDA, Organic, Hydroponic, Farming, Aeroponic IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18 Organic Certification For Hydroponic Systems As hydroponic and aquaponic farms have flourished across the country in recent years, debates about their suitability for organic certification have reached a fever pitch. Read More
Residential, Farming, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18 Residential, Farming, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18 VH Hydroponics Pilots New Line of Hydroponic Growing Cabinets in Student Union VH Hydroponics is an agricultural technology company headquartered in Anchorage. The company, founded in 2014, has a mission to “provide an alternate way to source fresh, locally grown and sustainable produce in remote communities, year-round,” as stated on their website. Read More
Farming, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18 Farming, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18 Menasha's Fork Farms is Changing The Face of Farming -- And Helping Schools, Pantries Fork Farms is a small, young, agriculture technology company that manufactures plastic hydroponic growing modules. Inside each one, ruffled rows of lettuce grow vertically without a speck of soil or sunlight. Read More
Supermarket, Farming, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18 Supermarket, Farming, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18 German Startup Leads The Way In Urban Farming Infarm builds in-store farming units and software to manage the growth of crops. The farms are operated by Infarm’s own platform for monitoring thousands of different data points and personalizing the farm to respective needs, which ensures that the produce is being grown as near to perfect as possible. Read More
Urban, Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/27/18 Urban, Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/27/18 In Less That 2 Days After Our Official Launch We Reached Our $15,000 Goal! I'm going through a range of emotions. Honestly, launching this Kickstarter campaign was a risky launch as it made us vulnerable and exposed. You all rallied and lifted us up to validate the farm! My heart is full. Read More
Urban, Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/26/18 Urban, Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/26/18 Dear Local Government: Actions Speak Larger Than Words Dogpatch Urban Gardens is a female-run urban farm located in Des Moines, Iowa. The farm is facing major hurdles due to changes in policy/regulations by the local county. Read More
Farming, LED, Lighting, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/26/18 Farming, LED, Lighting, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/26/18 Independence LED Lighting Ready With Program To Back Changes To SNAP Independence LED Lighting stated that it was shovel ready for a pilot programme in Philadelphia to support proposed changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programme (SNAP), included in the President’s Budget for Financial Year 2019. Read More
Urban, Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/25/18 Urban, Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/25/18 Startup Community Brainstorms To Save A Nonprofit ‘Vertical’ Farm In Midtown Anchorage Seeds of Change, near Arctic Boulevard and 26th Avenue, occupies a 10,000-square-foot warehouse designed for high-tech agriculture. Read More