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Livewell Northwest Colorado: Bring Growing Back Home

While greenhouses can be a viable solution, a better solution could be indoor vertical growing — a marriage of Jetson-like food technology with design wizardry of Steve Jobs

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A Staten Island Urban Farmer - A 26-Year-Old Farmer Grows 50 Types of Produce In The Courtyard Of A New Rental Complex

Zaro Bates operates and lives on a 5,000-square-foot farm on Staten Island, which may make her the city’s only commercial farmer-in-residence

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Are Indoor Farms The Next Step In The Evolution of Agriculture?

You’ve probably heard of farm-to-table, or even farm-to-fork, agricultural movements that emphasize the connection between producers and consumers. But what about factory farm-to-table?

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Why Large-Scale Indoor Farms Will Be Crucial to Feed Our Fast Growing Cities

Technological innovations are enabling a new way of producing food transforming indoor environments into places where fruits and vegetables can be grown without soil, close to the city, with an extremely short supply chain, fully independent of weather fluctuations, while reducing demand on water and chemicals

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Urban Vertical Farming Helps, Inspires, Grows The Green Wave

Last week, I went to catch up with an old friend who graduated from Duke last spring. Dr. Spencer Ware, a major in Environmental Science, found his new job by researching urban gardens in the greater Raleigh/Durham area. He stumbled across a small but productive operation called Sweet Peas Urban Gardens

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The Rooftop Growing Guide: How To Transform Your Rooftop Into A Garden Or Farm

Tapping into the expanding market for rooftop farming and green roofs, this is the first stylish, easy-to-use book for urban gardeners interested in utilizing their roof space for growing food

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UMass Hydro To Grow Fresh Produce For Students Year Round

If you look out of the campus-side windows in Franklin Dining Commons after the sun has gone down, you can see a mix of white, blue and magenta lights illuminating the inside of the Clark Hall Greenhouse

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Program Educating and Uplifting East Oakland Kids

It started with a lemon tree. Kelly Carlisle didn’t grow up gardening. She didn’t have a windowsill herb garden. She knew about farming, of course, but in her mind there was a disconnect: food just sort of showed up at the grocery store

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Farm-To-Table Amenities Yield Profits

Even on small infill sites, residential builders and developers are making room for vegetable gardens

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A D.C. Urban Farm Takes On Urban Problems

Urban farming can serve needs of local communities beyond nutrition

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Inside The Computerized Lettuce Factory Of The Future

High-tech farms in urban warehouses can grow 100 times more food using 95% less water than old-fashioned operations depending on soil and sunshine

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Urban Farming Insider With Professor Aaron Fox: Urban Farming Expert and Educator

Dr. Aaron Fox is an urban farmer and professor who was recently hired to start an Urban and Community Agriculture program at Cal Poly Pomona in the Los Angeles area.

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Why The local Food Trend Will Not Cut It In A Climate Change Future

Urban agriculture already plays an important role in global food production, but can it keep cities fed?

Securing sufficient food and nutrition for growing cities is considered one of today’s greatest development challenges.

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Inaugural Boston Food Tank Summit to Focus on Investing in Discovery

On April 1, 2017, Food Tank presents its first Boston Summit, “Investing in Discovery,” in collaboration with Tufts University and Oxfam America. The event will gather dozens of expert speakers and panelists who represent farmers, policymakers, businesses, chefs, nonprofit groups, elected officials, and more at the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy

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Wannabe Urban Gardners, How About This Indoor Farm to Get You Started?

If the idea of urban gardening appeals but you're concerned about space, then the Altifarm is definitely worth a look.

If you’ve always fancied tending your own vegetable garden but live in a place so small that such a hobby seems impossible, then there may be a solution

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ICCEA 2017: Dr. Toyoki Kozai’s Take On Vertical Farming

The celebrated researcher and ICCEA Panama keynote speaker looks back on his career and toward the future of controlled environment agriculture.

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Fish And Fresh Greens At The Farmory in Green Bay

Inside an old armory now called the Farmory - fish swim and greens grow. A collaboration of many aimed at creating this indoor farming system, to eventually help people learn how to help themselves.

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Indoor Farming Company Launches in Kearny

A new farming company is growing its produce at a quicker and more cost-effective rate than traditional farms.

The secret to the success? The produce is grown indoors

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America’s First Urban ‘Agrihood’ Feeds Detroit’s Poor For Free

 

Asof 2008, more people live in cities than in rural areas. The United Nations predicts that by 2050, 66% of the world’s population will reside in urban centers. This urbanization comes with its own unique set of challenges — especially when it comes to food

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This Vertical Farm Wants to Pioneer ‘Post-Organic’ Food

Once upon a time, every farmer on earth practiced something called organic agriculture, although they never bothered to coin the phrase

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