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Bottom of Fresh Herbs Bag Becomes Growing Pot
Bottom of Fresh Herbs Bag Becomes Growing Pot
How COVID-19 Has Impacted Indoor Farming
Yahoo Finance’s Zack Guzman and Akiko Fujita discuss the indoor farming outlook and the plant-based fresh food categories with Viraj Puri, Gotham Greens Co-Founder, and CEO
Fifth Season Named The "Official Greens" of The Pittsburgh Penguins
In addition to feeding our players, this partnership represents another way the Penguins are cultivating strong ties with our local Pittsburgh community
Biological Innovation Is Key To The Economic & Environmental Sustainability of CEA
As the global population rapidly urbanizes, we need to move our agricultural production to within urban and peri-urban areas
Rooftop Greenhouse Agrotopia Is Taking Shape
Little by little, the roof greenhouse on the crate shed of the REO Auction in Roeselare is taking shape. Compared to the very first visible work, there is already a real greenhouse on the roof, as greenhouse builder Deforche Construct shared recently
Polygreens Podcast Episode: 008 -CO2 GRO
CO2 from a gas tank and water from the facility source are plugged into the Aqueous CO2 Infusion System, which comes as an in-situ system or can be integrated into booms
Standardization To Build A Vertical Farming Industry or Building Customized Farms That Keep Cost High?
“Are we thinking about standardization so we can build a vertical farming industry or are we going to build a bunch of customized farms that keep costs unnecessarily high?
Bowery Farming Expands With The Addition of A New Farm
“Adding our newest, most sophisticated, smart indoor farm in Bethlehem to our network is a critical next chapter in our growth,” said Founder and CEO Irving Fain
AppHarvest Hires Impossible Foods’ David Lee As President
Lee brings track record capitalizing on innovative disruption to meet consumer demand
Certhon's First Results of Indoor Strawberries Trial
Martin Veenstra, Indoor Farming specialist at Certhon: “This way of growing strawberries is unique because all grow parameters can be precisely controlled during the entire growth cycle
Greenhouse Villages To Sprout In Metro Manila
The Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) recently partnered with four barangays in Caloocan and Quezon for the creation of greenhouse villages as part of the urban agriculture program of the government
Université de Sherbrooke Students Create Greener Greenhouse
Three engineering students at l'Université de Sherbrooke spent three years designing and building their perfect greenhouse
VIDEO: Havecon Introduces Havelettuce Projects: Standardized Turn-Key Lettuce Greenhouses Make Entering Greenhouse Industry Easier
Havelettuce will not only take on the build of a greenhouse but the complete project realization, offering a plug and play concept for starting a lettuce greenhouse enterprise. With this new initiative, the door into the horticultural industry will open more easily, CEO Henk Verbakel explains
PODCAST: An Interview With Henry Sztul - Chief Science Officer At Bowery Farming
In this episode, Harry and Henry discuss the promise that vertical farming provides to the world and why it resonated so soundly with Henry
Horticultural Glass Price Doubles From Growth In Solar Market
Since September, the price of horticultural glass has changed dramatically. “The glass price has been almost stable for ten years, it only drops a little bit year after year. Yet a couple of months ago, the price almost doubled,” says Michael Lee with Planti
Nature Fresh Farms Spreads Holiday Cheer With Their 2020 Holiday Giveaway
This has been the fourth consecutive year Nature Fresh Farms has carried out their company Holiday Giveaway
VIDEO: Pete's Introduces Hydroponically Greenhouse Grown Packaged Salad Varieties
Available in four varieties — Benevolent Butter, Hydro Spring Mix, Indoor Romaine and Nice & Crunchy — Pete’s Greenhouse Fresh offers environmentally-conscious consumers a range of fresh and sustainable packaged salad varieties that use 90 percent less land and water compared to field grown product
Gotham Greens Raises $87m Series D Funding To Decentralize Food Production
The round brings Gotham Greens’ total funding to $130 million. Although the Covid-19 pandemic made for a more complicated fundraising process, there was a silver lining, according to the startup’s CEO Viraj Puri. “It revealed opportunities in the food supply chain, which is really the core of what our mission is – to transform how and where fresh produce is grown,” he told AFN
Pure Flavor® Launches Live Deliciously® Magazine For Holiday Season
“The new Live Deliciously® Magazine is just one part of our strategy to create great content that we can share across all our channels to encourage people to eat more fresh fruit & vegetables”, said Veillon