Urban, Farming, USA, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/21/17 Urban, Farming, USA, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/21/17

A Farm In Shipping Containers Grows In Brooklyn

It's farm to table with a twist. A parking lot in Brooklyn isn't the first place you'd expect to see spinach and arugula sprouting up but here they are. Hydroponic vertical farms are growing crops inside 10 steel shipping containers in the same neighborhood where Jay Z grew up

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Urban Farmers Grow Crops in Brooklyn Parking Lot

Square Roots first broke ground by financing and mentoring local entrepreneurs who are growing tasty, nutritious greens in, of all places, a Brooklyn parking lot. Now it’s taking things a step further — right to your New York City office.

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Nation’s First ‘Sustainable Urban Agrihood’ Being Built In Detroit

An effort has launched in Detroit to build something unique: what they’re calling “America’s First Sustainable Urban Agrihood.”

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Urban, Farming, USA IGrow PreOwned 2/21/17 Urban, Farming, USA IGrow PreOwned 2/21/17

Here's What Success In Building Local Food Systems Looks Like

Ten small Upper Peninsula farms are U.S.Department of Agriculture (USDA) food safety certified. About $250,000 in local food products purchased by U.P. schools, hospitals, and restaurants. Hundreds of individuals educated on the benefits of local food, and a strong, growing distribution network to connect local farms with local buyers

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Innovation, Agriculture, Urban, USA IGrow PreOwned 2/18/17 Innovation, Agriculture, Urban, USA IGrow PreOwned 2/18/17

Farming Meets High Tech When Natural History Museum Kicks Off Food Lecture Series

They say you can't fool nature, but hundreds of "nerd farmers" around the globe are tapping technology to control climate and create the perfect conditions for growing food.

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Urban, Farming, USA, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/17/17 Urban, Farming, USA, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/17/17

Indoor Farms of America Brings Customers The Most Innovative Farm Management Platform Available With Award Winning Agrilyst

Indoor Farms of America announces today that all of its vertical aeroponic farms, from the most productive container farms in the world, known as GrowTrucks, to the highest yield indoor farms for warehouse or greenhouse applications, will now come standard with the award winning farm intelligence platform from Agrilyst.

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Farming, Urban, USA, World, Vertical Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/17/17 Farming, Urban, USA, World, Vertical Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/17/17

Urban Farming Insider: With Glenn Behrman, Founder CEA Advisers, The Plant Shed, and Greentech Agro

Glenn Behrman first started the Plant Shed in the 1970's, and has been involved with urban agriculture for over 40 years. We caught up with Glenn to discuss many topics, including his personal story, container farming versus vertical farming, and what is wrong with today's perception of urban farming

 

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There Are Acres of Leafy Greens Inside These Shipping Crates On An Old St. Petersburg Junkyard

The would-be farmers bought three transoceanic refrigerated shipping containers, just a little dinged up, for $6,500 each

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Farming, USA, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/16/17 Farming, USA, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/16/17

Farmed Here Asset Sale Set for February 23rd

This past month, we at Agritecture syndicated this open letter from Paul Hardej (originally published on the Association for Vertical Farming newsletter) about the closure of the 90,000 sq ft. FarmedHere Facility in Bedford Park, IL

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Innovation, Farming, USA, World, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/15/17 Innovation, Farming, USA, World, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/15/17

GE Lighting Horticultural LED Lights Are Specifically Designed for Controlled Environment Agriculture

GE Lighting has been offering horticultural LED lights to the North American market since 2011.

“GE had been marketing horticultural LED lights in Japan prior to introducing them to the United States,” said Sharee Thornton, Product Manager at GE Lighting. “The reason for not introducing them sooner was the U.S. horticulture market was just starting to work with LEDs and GE was still developing the products specific to this market

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Farming, USA, World, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/14/17 Farming, USA, World, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/14/17

Robots Meet Indoor Farming

The goal: to produce 30,000 heads of lettuce a day initially using LED lighting and hydroponic technology a 47,300-square-foot facility near Kyoto, SPREAD, an agriculture technology company, is creating a massive, automated, indoor „vertical farm”—and the special ingredient is the use of robots

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Another Look At GreenGro Technologies Inc

GreenGro describes itself as “a world class provider of eco-friendly green technologies with specific domain expertise in indoor and outdoor agricultural science systems serving both the consumer and commercial farming markets

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Farming, USA, World, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/13/17 Farming, USA, World, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/13/17

The Future of Agriculture Is Already Here

A robot that grafts seedlings. Fleets of remote-controlled, self-regulating greenhouses. Organic rice that’s grown entirely by drones

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Atlanta To Host Agriculture Conference

Relationships built at the inaugural Aglanta Conference on Feb. 19 could help the city meet its goals of bringing local healthy food within a half mile of 75 percent of all Atlanta residents by 2020, said the city of Atlanta’s urban agriculture director, Mario Cambardella

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Farming, Urban, USA, World, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/10/17 Farming, Urban, USA, World, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/10/17

The Vertical Farm: A Chat with Dickson D. Despommier, Ph.D.

By the year 2050, nearly 80% of the earth’s population will live in urban centers and that number will have increased by about 3 billion people in the interim – a big challenge and opportunity to feed. One emergent model is indoor farming, aka, vertical farming

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City of Atlanta to Host inaugural “Aglanta Conference”

The City of Atlanta will host its inaugural “Aglanta Conference” to showcase urban and controlled environment agriculture innovation in the City of Atlanta

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Urban, Farming, USA, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/9/17 Urban, Farming, USA, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/9/17

Buy Infinite Harvest's Greens at Nooch and Company Headquarters

Denver-based vertical farm Infinite Harvest has big plans to take its produce-growing capabilities to outer space. In the meantime, it could help a lot of people here on Earth

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Farming, USA, World, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/8/17 Farming, USA, World, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/8/17

Freight Farms Revolutionizing Farm-To-Fork System

 

Usually the concept of farm-to-fork is designed to keep locally-grown produce out of shipping containers, but one company is working with local farmers to do just the opposite

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The Future of Food - Community Development Field Trip

Food and agriculture endeavors that focus on community development in cities -- from community gardens and urban farms to workforce development programs -- play an essential role in enhancing food security, educating citizens about where there food comes from, and strengthening food equity

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Farming, USA, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/7/17 Farming, USA, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 2/7/17

It’s The Middle Of Winter, Do You Know Where Your Arugula Is Being Grown?

Pure Sky Farms CEO Austin Webb wore a black apron over his dress shirt as he served samples to costumers at the grand opening of the new Whole Foods Market in Upper St. Clair in January

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