Seeding Change: Woman Launches Eastside Erie, PA Urban Farm

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Seeding Change: Woman Launches Eastside Erie, PA Urban Farm

Farm plots will take over vacant lots in the city, bringing food choices to people who need them.

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Unilever Launches Vegan Snack Line To Support Urban Farming Projects

Unilever, a global product corporation, recently introduced a new vegan snack line to benefit urban farming initiatives. Fifty percent of profits from these organic vegan crunchy clusters, Growing Roots, will be donated to various organizations that work to make fresh food accessible in urban areas.

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FarmBot v6.3.0 Software Update

Over the last week, we rolled out version 6.3.0 of our software stack with a host of new features and improvements that make working with FarmBot faster, easier, and more fun.

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In Support of Farmers Everywhere - More Change, More Growth Coming To Bootstrap Farmer

On March 1, 2018, Nick Burton joined Bootstrap Farmer as Creative Director. This is huge for us in fulfilling our mission in support entrepreneurs in launching low-cost businesses that merge the agricultural and culinary industries.

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Profits Mushroom For This Urban Farmer

Kamala makes ₹30,000 a month after turning her Bengaluru house into a mushroom farm.

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Welcome To The Family!

We are delighted that Andrea Theodore and Jorge Inda Meza are joining the GrowGood board of directors. We thought you'd like to get to know them a bit

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Photo Report: A Hat-Trick In Tunisia

Building greenhouses in the Tunisian desert can be quite a challenge. The temperatures rise during the day but in the nighttime, it's really cold. Combined with the dust and the distances to projects, it's not an easy topic at all.

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How Urban Farmers Are learning To Grow Food Without Soil Or Natural Light

Growing food in cities became popular in Europe and North America during and immediately after World War II.

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New Partnership To Drive Innovation In Perennial Fruits

AgTech solutions company Autogrow and Plant & Food Research today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) confirming their intention to collaborate in the development of protocols to maximize yield and enable continuous production of perennial fruits.

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NatureFresh™ Farms Shines Light on Tomatoes in Leamington, Ontario Expansion

John Ketler, General Manager at NatureFresh™ Farms, is excited to announce the newest NatureFresh™ Farms greenhouse expansion taking place in Leamington, ON later this year. Construction of a new 32-acre greenhouse facility will commence in the summer of 2018, with production scheduled to begin in 2019

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A’s Unveil The Farm, Another New Coliseum Feature For 2018

Located at the south end of the East Side Club near the right-field flagpoles, it will feature an assortment of produce and flowers planted in large redwood planters along with picnic tables and benches so fans can watch and enjoy the game.

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Return Of The Good Life: The New Craze For Front Garden Allotments

FORGET neatly trimmed hedges, tidy rows of begonias and well-tended lawns. An increasing number of 21st century growers in Scotland claim it's time to rebel against the short back and sides approach traditionally taken to front gardening in towns and cities and start making use of them as practical – but beautiful – allotments for growing fruit and veg.

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Iowa's Small Farms Are a Treasure. Why Won't Regulators Leave Them Alone

Earlier this week, members of the Polk County, Iowa, Board of Adjustments decided not to force the lone for-profit farm in Des Moines, the county's largest city, out of business.

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Urban Agriculture Firm Gotham Greens Will Double Its Footprint In Chicago

The site is near Gotham’s existing rooftop greenhouse, the largest commercial one of its kind in the world, on top of the Method soap factory in Pullman Park which opened in 2015 .

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Salads Straight From The City

Prof. Dr. Andreas Ulbrich from the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück brought along exciting new scenarios for the future of urban spaces to this year’s Ahlem Forum.

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Behind The Rise And Fall of Growing Power

Will Allen is a beloved figure. The former professional basketball player and founder of the Milwaukee-based nonprofit Growing Power has had an influence on urban agriculture that is as conspicuous as his 6’7 inch frame and the characteristic sleeveless hooded sweatshirts that reveal his lumberjack biceps.

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Italy: SAIM Service's Vacuum Cooling Technology

Vacuum cooling uses the principle of low-temperature evaporation of a fraction of the humidity found in a product. This results in a quick stress-free pre-cooling that guarantees a reduced drop in weight while hastening commercialization time.

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This Local AGTech Startup Wants You To Forget Everything You Know About Farming

Industrial agriculture has allowed farmers to maximize the potential yield of their crops for centuries. But it has done so at a major cost to the environment — a cost characterized by a steady decline in soil productivity, reduced water quality, elevated levels of carbon dioxide, habitat loss, and more.

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Local Garden Becomes Family Business Venture

From backyard garden in our local community to a small business, Amy Williams is keeping the gardening tradition alive in the family with Underhill Urban Farm Co, a non-GMO, organically grown farm and garden that uses heirloom seeds, that are all locally grown.

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Urban Farm Creates Much-Needed Retail ‘Customer Experience’

Frasers Property Australia has teamed up with the “poster boy for zero-waste living”, Joost Bakker, to build the world’s most sustainable shopping centre – equipped with a 2000sq m rooftop urban farm.