IGrow PreOwned 8/27/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/27/17

Buildings To Generate Their Own Power With Innovative Glass Blocks

Renewable Energy experts from the University of Exeter are developing a pioneering new technique that could accelerate the widespread introduction of net-zero energy buildings through the latest Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV).

IGrow PreOwned 8/16/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/16/17

PIDO's Bike Share Farm Is A Community Garden That Can Be Pedalled From Place To Place

The hydroponic farm consists of a triangular steel framework supported by a pair of bikes. Pipes run across the metal base, with holes for pot plants to slot into. A set of solar panels are fastened onto the structure to power a pump that runs water through the entire system

IGrow PreOwned 8/15/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/15/17

A Small Missouri Company Has Big Plans For Idle Elevators To Serve As Vertical Farms

Kerns and Geisler run Vertical Innovations, an enterprise formed in December of 2014 to repurpose old elevators, making them into incredibly productive vertical farms for growing leafy green vegetables. They have developed a patent-pending method of hydroponic production, a “structure-driven design” that adapts to the circular shapes.

IGrow PreOwned 8/14/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/14/17

Full Automation From Planning To Control For Indoor Farms Is Here

For a limited time, growers who sign up for an annual commercial farm
subscription with Agrilyst will receive two free hardware units from Motorleaf worth over $1400 USD.

IGrow PreOwned 8/10/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/10/17

Property Owners Reap Cost Savings With Green Building

Green infrastructure is an umbrella term for anything that helps manage stormwater naturally and often includes rain gardens, green roofs, cisterns and rainwater recycling.

IGrow PreOwned 8/9/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/9/17

These 5 Technologies Are On The Verge of Massive Breakthroughs

Here are a few of the cutting-edge technologies that made the list--and the companies that are already making strides with them.

IGrow PreOwned 7/28/17 IGrow PreOwned 7/28/17

Artemis Takes on The World

Artemis has set out to provide the world’s best management software from its inception. In order to be the world’s best, you have to be a global company. Within just a few months of our launch, we were proud to support incredible customers in South America, Sri Lanka, Canada, and the United States.

IGrow PreOwned 7/25/17 IGrow PreOwned 7/25/17

Award-Winning Re-Nuble Lays Waste To Malnutrition

Re-Nuble Inc., founded by scientifically oriented business IT specialist Tinia Pina , has snagged a 2017 American Entrepreneurship Award and the $25,000 interest-free loan that accompanies it – the latest feathers in the cap of a 2015 startup that transforms food waste into fresh produce.

IGrow PreOwned 7/19/17 IGrow PreOwned 7/19/17

This Shipping-Container Farm Could Someday Solve The Food Desert Problem

Local Roots, a California company, has created an indoor farm that can turn any produce into local produce, anywhere. They grow fruits and vegetables in shipping containers that are stacked in old warehouses or parking lots, which can either be connected to the grid or, eventually, powered by solar energy. Local Roots has designed the custom growing technology and hardware, and it owns and operates the farms, selling its produce to restaurants and food distributors under its own brand. The fact that the company is vertically integrated differentiates it from other container farming systems, like Freight Farm, which sells their containers to others, including novice farmers.

IGrow PreOwned 7/18/17 IGrow PreOwned 7/18/17

Freight Farms Builds Farms In Shipping Containers, And NASA Wants To Launch Them To Space

Freight Farms, based in Boston, is trying to revolutionize the global food system with its Leafy Green Machines. These shipping containers filled with racks of planted crops, grow lights, and environmental control systems can be installed anywhere in the world and make fresh produce available in even the densest urban neighborhoods.

IGrow PreOwned 7/15/17 IGrow PreOwned 7/15/17

Staying Competitive With New Edible Crops

By taking advantage of new lighting technologies and experimenting with unique produce offerings such as ice plant and purslane, ornamental growers can effectively move into the produce space, says Dr. Richard Fu, president of Agrivolution, a Connecticut-based agriculture technology company.

IGrow PreOwned 7/11/17 IGrow PreOwned 7/11/17

A Life And Career Unexpected

As a child growing up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Dr. James Rakocy did not plan on a career in aquaponics. While his family had a home garden and he enjoyed fishing and raising fish in an aquarium, his life took him in other directions

IGrow PreOwned 6/30/17 IGrow PreOwned 6/30/17

Infarm Wants To Put A Farm In Every Grocery Store

Imagine a future where you go into a grocery store to buy some fresh basil, and, as you traverse the aisle, instead of polythene bags containing mass-produced snippets of the herb that have been flown in from thousands of miles away, in front of you are a stack of illuminated containers, each housing a mini basil farm.

IGrow PreOwned 6/30/17 IGrow PreOwned 6/30/17

A Night of Chamber Music On Brooklyn’s Floating Food Forest Showed What Cities Can Be

There is something about being on top of the water, surrounded by plants and music to remind you that New York is actually a place on land on the Earth and not a mindset or abstraction.

IGrow PreOwned 6/27/17 IGrow PreOwned 6/27/17

Syngenta Looks To The Future

Syngenta today announced its new ambition and priorities following the completion of the transaction with ChemChina. The company aims to profitably grow market share through organic growth and collaborations, and is considering targeted acquisitions with a focus on seeds.

IGrow PreOwned 6/27/17 IGrow PreOwned 6/27/17

Nebullam Develops Aeroponic Technology For Indoor Growers

The company’s mission is to provide the art of future foods now and they’re doing that through the development of aeroponics

IGrow PreOwned 6/26/17 IGrow PreOwned 6/26/17

Urban Crop Solutions Collaborates With Albert Heijn (Ahold Delhaize) & Bakker Barendrecht

Climate change, the global lack of arable land and the fact that more and more people are living in cities are a real challenge for the daily supply of fresh and healthy food for retail companies.

IGrow PreOwned 6/26/17 IGrow PreOwned 6/26/17

Nebullam Announces Two New Board Members and Advisor

Nebullam, L.L.C., located in the Iowa State University (ISU) Research Park, announced the appointment of two new members to its board of directors, as well as one new advisor.