Farming, USA, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 4/23/17 Farming, USA, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 4/23/17

Rice U. Team Cultivates Ideas For Indoor Farming

Some engineering design projects click, hum or make no sound at all. Lettuce Turnip the Beet may be the first at Rice University to gurgle.

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Edible Gardens Enliven Industrial Properties, Accelerate Valuations

Urban farms can help to attract new industrial businesses, accelerate property values, and engender camaraderie between co-workers.

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Urban, Farming, USA, Vertical Farming IGrow PreOwned 4/22/17 Urban, Farming, USA, Vertical Farming IGrow PreOwned 4/22/17

For Earth Day, A Look Back At Some of The Best Green Building Designs

It’s Earth Day, and there are plenty of ways to celebrate across the city. But while we’ve got you here, why not have a look back at some the most interesting green developments out there?

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Houston’s Hope Farms Breaks Ground

Houston’s New Urban Farming Project Will Provide Fresh Produce, Farmer Training, Nutrition Education and Community Gathering Space in Historic Sunnyside

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Civic Farms To Break Ground On 20,000 sq.ft. Vertical Farm At Biosphere 2

Vegetables can soon be reaped again from the  Biosphere 2 complex of the University or Arizona. Tomorrow, on Earth Day, Civic Farms will break ground for a new 20,000 sq.ft. vertical farm inside Biosphere 2’s West Lung.

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How Freight Farms Is Taking Off From Boston To Canada

Freight Farms sell a solution where 40’ x 8’ x 9.5’ shipping containers are outfitted innovative tools and technologies to produce consistent, high-volume harvests of leafy greens, herbs and a number of other select crops 365 days per year.

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Innovative, Efficient Indoor Farm In New Jersey

Could the answer to the global food crisis be hidden in a warehouse in New Jersey? A local indoor farming startup is producing affordable crops there year-round, independent of the weather

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Sustainable Farming Blossoms In The Lowcountry

The sun is rising on a new form of farming in the Lowcountry. In the heart of Summerville, there's an up and coming farm that sits in a residential neighborhood. Stefanie Swackhamer and her team at Tiger Corner Farms says their whole operation is one big science experiment.  "Traditional farmers grow in the dirt," she said. "Hydropantic farmers grow in the water."

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Elon Musk’s Brother Is Disrupting Farming—One Sprig of Hyperlocal Microgreen At A Time

Elon Musk's brother, Kimbal, cofounded a high-tech company for a very low-tech product—spinach. And also chard and mustard greens and anything else that can be grown in an old shipping container outfitted with $85,000 worth of high-tech farming equipment

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New Vertical Gardens At UA's Biosphere 2 Will Provide Produce For Sale

Food crops are coming back to Biosphere 2, but they won’t be planted in the 3 acres under glass at the University of Arizona research facility in Oracle.

A company named Civic Farms plans to grow its leafy greens under artificial lights in one of the cavernous lungs that kept the Biosphere’s glass from imploding or exploding when it was all sealed up.

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New Farming Method in Taft Says Goodbye to Dirt

A new and innovative way of growing food without using dirt has carved a niche here in Kern County

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Boston Urban Ag - A City's Vision for Growing Food

Boston's strong entrepreneurial spirit, combined with progressive legislation like the passing of Article 89, has turned Boston into one of the nation’s hubs for urban agriculture

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Kimbal Musk's Tech Revolution Starts With Mustard Greens

The other Musk is leading a band of hipster Brooklyn farmers on a mission to overthrow Big Ag

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Urban, Farming, USA, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 4/14/17 Urban, Farming, USA, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 4/14/17

Lifelong Farmer Looks East: CEA Farms Wants to Bring Indoor Farm to Eastern Loudoun

His family has worked the land in Loudoun for generations, growing beef and produce. But things have changed now. The old ways aren’t sustainable for a small farm anymore, especially with Loudoun’s pricey land values

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Restaurant Visit: An Innovative Micro Farm at Olmsted in Brooklyn

A buzzy new restaurant in Brooklyn is condensing today’s biggest food trends (farm-to-table, sustainability, no-waste) into a tiny backyard garden. At Olmsted, named for the famous landscape architect who designed nearby Prospect Park, chef Greg Baxtrom (formerly at Per Se and Blue Hill at Stone Barns) and farmer Ian Rothman (the former horticulturist at New York’s Atera restaurant) have cultivated a self-sustaining micro-farm—complete with an aquaponics system in a clawfoot bathtub 

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Beavercreek Veteran Looks To Change Farming Practices

The owner of Oasis Aqua Farm told 2 NEWS he’s trying to make farming more sustainable. His unconventional farming method started when his mother-in-law wanted to get rid of some fish.

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A Brooklyn Rooftop, Condo Owners Will Be Able To Sign Up For Plots To Harvest Edible Crops

Do-it-yourself farmers who can afford condos priced at an average of $1,500 a square foot, with one-bedroom units starting at $890,000 and two-bedrooms at $1.495 million

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Faith-Based Organization Alleges Vertical Farm Operator Breached Contract

Kanawha Institute for Social Research & Action Inc filed a complaint March 21 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia against Green Spirit Farms LLC of New Buffalo, Michigan, alleging failure to fulfill its obligations under the contract a Institute for Social Research & Action Inc filed a complaint March 21 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia against Green Spirit Farms LLC of New Buffalo, Michigan, alleging failure to fulfill its obligations under the contract

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Upping The Ante on Urban Agriculture Research

It’s easy to assume everything is ready to continue smoothly in the growing field of urban agriculture: Urban home and community gardens pop up more and more, and the evidence of sustainability and social benefits continues to grow.

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Organic Entrepreneur in Ripon Focuses on Fresh

In a basement below Bluemke’s appliance shop in downtown Ripon, thousands of vegetables sprout every week, bound for the aisles of one of northeast Wisconsin’s biggest grocers

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