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Property Tax Breaks Aim To Help Urban Farms Crop Up

Up and down the state, property owners can receive tax breaks for allowing their unused, and often blighted, urban lots to transform into commercial or noncommercial farms under a law that went into effect in 2014

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Vertical Future: London Based Start-Up to Launch Device to Tackle Air Pollution In Major Cities

Vertical Future’s overall mission focuses on three themes: food, digital and living. The company’s first step will be to launch a network of so-called vertical farms across London in disused buildings and recycled shipping containers

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The Indoor Farming Compound Founded by Kimbal Musk — Elon's Brother — Now Delivering Greens

Farmers from Square Roots — a Brooklyn-based urban farming accelerator program co-founded by Kimbal Musk (brother of Elon) — are now delivering their produce to local offices

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D.C.’s Urban Farms Wrestle With Gentrification and Displacement

Urban farmers often hold high-minded ideals about food justice and access; they’re also often unwitting vehicles for driving out communities of color

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Technology Hits The Fields

During a recent blizzard in Massachusetts, Sonia Lo, CEO of FreshBox Farms, was in a grocery store suggesting to skeptical patrons that they sample her leafy greens. “They were picked yesterday,” is what she told tasters

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On the Heels of EcoFarm, Farm Lot 59 Issues Call to Action for Urban Agriculture

Farm Lot 59 is the definition of a community farm. As a food hub that serves the greater Long Beach area and beyond, we create an outdoor community space where skills grow, healthy ideas take root and people become inspired

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Bowery Farming Raises $7.5M For It's High-Tech Indoor Farms

The startup establishes vertical farms indoors within urban areas. Consumers get access to fresh produce and not stuff that's been packaged and shipped over a week as a result

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“Post-Organic” Produce Uses 95-Percent Less Water Than Traditional Farming

A newly launched modern farming company, Bowery, is growing what they call the world’s first “post-organic” produce. Their concept breaks from traditional agricultural practices by growing plants indoors in vertical rows without any pesticides

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Here's Why Your Winter Produce Tastes Better

Nearly 7 million pounds of hydroponic tomatoes will be harvested this year from two 7.5-acre greenhouses in Rochelle, about 80 miles west of Chicago

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​​​​​​​​​​​​​Inside The Vertical Farm Growing What It Calls "The World's First Post-Organic" Produce

Without using any pesticides or chemicals, Bowery—a new vertical farming startup outside of New York City—delivers fresh leafy greens within one day of harvesting, with some help from agricultural AI

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Bowery Launches AI-Enabled Indoor Farming Business with $7.5m in Seed Funding

There’s a new indoor farming company in town.

Today, New Jersey-based Bowery comes out of stealth to announce that it has raised $7.5 million in angel and seed funding to launch its new vertical farming business.

Founded by tech entrepreneur Irving Fain in October 2014 with co-founders David Golden and Brian Falther, Bowery has built a vertical farming facility in New Jersey that uses automation, machine learning, and vision systems to monitor and tend to its crops.

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Loan Approved For SB Indoor Farming Project

This could be the year indoor farming comes to inner city South Bend.

Planning for a vertical farm began back in 2015.

Earlier this week, an $800,000 loan was conditionally approved for the project (from the City of South Bend’s Industrial Revolving Loan Fund) while a recent Crowdfunding campaign raised $640,000.

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Ever Thought of Growing What You Eat? These Chennai-Based NIT Grads Are Enabling Urban Indoor Farmers To Do Just That

When Deepak Srinivasan and Ashish Khan were studying at NIT Trichy, they were driven by a passion to solve some of the most basic problems the world faces today

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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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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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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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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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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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