IGrow PreOwned 7/22/18 IGrow PreOwned 7/22/18

ALDI Named America’s Grocery Value Leader

For the eighth consecutive year, the grocery retailer has been named the value leader by Market Force Information, which surveyed nearly 13,000 U.S. consumers.

IGrow PreOwned 7/21/18 IGrow PreOwned 7/21/18

Montreal, Canada Supermarket Offers Fresh Produce from Its Rooftop Garden

You probably wouldn’t expect to find a farm on the roof of your local supermarket. “People don’t believe that we can grow veggies on a rooftop,” laughs Carl Pichette, marketing vice-president for Sobeys Quebec.

IGrow PreOwned 7/11/18 IGrow PreOwned 7/11/18

Belgian Supermarket Starts Serving Homegrown Produce From Rooftop Garden

Shoppers in the Brussels neighborhood of Ixelles are going green and eating clean as the Boondael Delhaize supermarket sells produce grown on its own roof, without the use of pesticides or preservatives.

IGrow PreOwned 6/10/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/10/18

The Health Revolution Heading To A Supermarket Near You

At the cutting edge is German company Infarm, which has designed ‘smart modular vertical farms’ for supermarkets. Two of Germany’s largest chains, Edeka and Metro, have just started using the technology, which allows them to grow up to 1200 herbs or leafy green plants per month in a single two-square-meter unit.

IGrow PreOwned 6/2/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/2/18

3-Minute Survey: Growing Produce At The Grocery Store

According to a recent survey, grocery shoppers aren’t too keen on mixing technology and food, despite wanting technology in every other aspect of their lives. So how do they like the idea of their local grocery store growing produce indoors?

IGrow PreOwned 5/31/18 IGrow PreOwned 5/31/18

Swedish Supermarket Grows Microgreens in Basement

Supermarket ICA Kvantum Liljeholmen introduced, with assistance from Urban Oasis, a subterranean nursery that doesn’t require any soil.

IGrow PreOwned 5/28/18 IGrow PreOwned 5/28/18

Urban Food From Vertical Farming

Your local supermarket and favourite restaurant could soon be growing their own food, thanks to an EU-funded project that has completely redesigned the food supply chain to develop the concept of in-store farming.

IGrow PreOwned 5/22/18 IGrow PreOwned 5/22/18

The Dallas Morning News features Dallas’ Central Market For Growing Their Own Salad

Glenn Behrman, the owner of CEA Advisors, supplied the container and has worked in the controlled environment for several years with researchers at Texas A&M.

IGrow PreOwned 5/21/18 IGrow PreOwned 5/21/18

Heavenly Good From The Underworld

Forget about organic farming. Now it is about urban urban cultivation. ICA Kvantum Liljeholmen peered in the crystal ball and was helped by Urban Oasis to introduce the country's first underground crops - completely without the help of soil.

IGrow PreOwned 5/15/18 IGrow PreOwned 5/15/18

"Customers Can Harvest Lettuce At Dutch Retailer Albert Heijn"

Starting this week, Albert Heijn Gelderlandplein in Amsterdam boasts a harvest stand. It has an assortment of lettuce with their roots still attached.

IGrow PreOwned 5/14/18 IGrow PreOwned 5/14/18

Copy of Growtainers Expands With Central Market, Looks to New Crops

For just about a year now, Central Market in Dallas has tested out offering produce that was grown on-site in a Growtainer. Evidently, that partnership has gone so well that Central Market is making the relationship more permanent and expanding it with the addition of another Growtainer.

IGrow PreOwned 4/11/18 IGrow PreOwned 4/11/18

Produce Butchers Play Important Role at Popular Grocers

Customers are stepping right up to counters or kiosks and receiving personal attention with a new service: produce butchers.

IGrow PreOwned 3/27/18 IGrow PreOwned 3/27/18

New Whole Foods Cultivates Mini Mushroom Farm In Produce Section

When designing the new Whole Foods location in Bridgewater, N.J., the company created an expansive produce department and carved out space for something a bit different: a mushroom farm.

IGrow PreOwned 3/10/18 IGrow PreOwned 3/10/18

French Food Waste Law Changing How Grocery Stores Approach Excess Food

Every morning at a supermarket called Auchan in central Paris, Magdalena Dos Santos has a rendezvous with Ahmed "Doudou" Djerbrani, a driver from the French food bank.

IGrow PreOwned 2/28/18 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.

IGrow PreOwned 2/19/18 IGrow PreOwned 2/19/18

Growtainers Expands With Central Market, Looks to New Crops

For just about a year now, Central Market in Dallas has tested out offering produce that was grown on-site in a Growtainer. Evidently, that partnership has gone so well that Central Market is making the relationship more permanent and expanding it with the addition of another Growtainer.

IGrow PreOwned 2/16/18 IGrow PreOwned 2/16/18

Agricool Strawberries, Coming To Monoprix 🚀

Today we have 4 Cooltainers in Paris (Bercy , Station F , Stade de France , Halle Flachat ). Each of them can produce 7 tons of strawberries per year, which is about 28,000 cartons.

IGrow PreOwned 2/15/18 IGrow PreOwned 2/15/18

Urban Farming Platform Infarm Gets $25M Funding Endorsement

Berlin-based urban farming startup Infarm has received a rousing endorsement for its vertical, indoor farms in the form of cash. Like, lots of cash.

IGrow PreOwned 2/9/18 IGrow PreOwned 2/9/18

Infarm Reinventing Food Supply With Vertical Urban Farms

German urban farming group Infarm aims to expand its network of urban farms to 1,000 locations throughout Europe by 2019.

IGrow PreOwned 2/7/18 IGrow PreOwned 2/7/18

Balderton Capital Leads $25M Series A In ‘Urban Farming’ Platform Infarm

Inf arm, a startup that has developed vertical farming tech for grocery stores, restaurants, and local distribution centres to bring fresh and artisan produce much closer to the consumer, has raised $25 million in Series A funding.

Infarm, a startup that has developed vertical farming tech for grocery stores, restaurants, and local distribution centres to bring fresh and artisan produce much closer to the consumer, has raised $25 million in Series A funding.

ALDI Named America’s Grocery Value Leader

Montreal, Canada Supermarket Offers Fresh Produce from Its Rooftop Garden

Belgian Supermarket Starts Serving Homegrown Produce From Rooftop Garden

The Health Revolution Heading To A Supermarket Near You

3-Minute Survey: Growing Produce At The Grocery Store

Swedish Supermarket Grows Microgreens in Basement

Urban Food From Vertical Farming

The Dallas Morning News features Dallas’ Central Market For Growing Their Own Salad

Heavenly Good From The Underworld

"Customers Can Harvest Lettuce At Dutch Retailer Albert Heijn"

Copy of Growtainers Expands With Central Market, Looks to New Crops

Produce Butchers Play Important Role at Popular Grocers

New Whole Foods Cultivates Mini Mushroom Farm In Produce Section

French Food Waste Law Changing How Grocery Stores Approach Excess Food

German Startup Leads The Way In Urban Farming

Growtainers Expands With Central Market, Looks to New Crops

Agricool Strawberries, Coming To Monoprix 🚀

Urban Farming Platform Infarm Gets $25M Funding Endorsement

Infarm Reinventing Food Supply With Vertical Urban Farms

Balderton Capital Leads $25M Series A In ‘Urban Farming’ Platform Infarm

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