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

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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Shanghai Planning Huge Vertical Farm, Looking to change The Way It Feeds Its 24 Million Residents

As Shanghai continues to expand outward, replacing agriculture with urbanization, a US-based design firm is looking to reimagine the way that Shanghai grows food to feed its 24 million people.

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Urban, Farming, World IGrow PreOwned 4/20/17 Urban, Farming, World IGrow PreOwned 4/20/17

This 100-Hectare Vertical Urban Farm Will Feed 24 Million People

Shanghai is planning an urban vertical farm that will feed millions. The centre aims to educate people on the benefits of food sustainability. Sasaki Architects will create the 100-acre farm that will be interactive and hands-on. The population of Shanghai is 24 million and the company aims to feed every one of them.

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Urban, Farming, USA, World, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 4/19/17 Urban, Farming, USA, World, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 4/19/17

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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Urban, Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 4/18/17 Urban, Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 4/18/17

Urban Gardening Kit Has Everything You Need To Grow Your Own Food

From Ikea’s indoor gardening offerings to a shipping container community farm in Brooklyn, New York,urban agriculture is having quite the moment. Now, GrowKit, billed as an “Urban Agriculture Kit for Beginners,” wants to make farming accessible to city dwellers starved for space.

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Urban, Farming, World IGrow PreOwned 4/18/17 Urban, Farming, World IGrow PreOwned 4/18/17

Bolloré Logistics Korea Installs Urban Farm

The company installed an urban farm on its office rooftop building in Seoul, South Korea, as part of the Bolloré’s initiative to promoting “Green Projects” and protecting biodiversity.

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Urban, Farming, World IGrow PreOwned 4/18/17 Urban, Farming, World IGrow PreOwned 4/18/17

Urban Rooftop Farm Powered by Rainwater and Composted Food Waste

#LAUNCHFood innovators Marc Noyce and Brendan Condon of Biofilta shared their closed loop urban rooftop garden concept at the LAUNCH Food forum at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. The video shows a rendering of their closed loop – water, space, and time efficient rooftop concept. 

  

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

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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Urban, Farming, World, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 4/16/17 Urban, Farming, World, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 4/16/17

Is Boston The Next Urban Farming Paradise?

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

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

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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Urban, Farming, World IGrow PreOwned 4/14/17 Urban, Farming, World IGrow PreOwned 4/14/17

Vancouver Community Gardens A Gift From Developers Who Get Tax Bre

The transformation of a gravel lot on the site of a long-shuttered gas station was spearheaded by Shifting Growth, a Vancouver non-profit that bridges the gap between commercial property owners and urbanites eager to grow their own food

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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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Urban, Farming, World IGrow PreOwned 4/12/17 Urban, Farming, World IGrow PreOwned 4/12/17

Shanghai is Planning a Massive 100-Hectare Vertical Farm to Feed 24 Million People

International architecture firm Sasaki just unveiled plans for a spectacular 100-hectare urban farm set amidst the soaring skyscrapers of Shanghai

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Urban, Farming, USA IGrow PreOwned 4/12/17 Urban, Farming, USA IGrow PreOwned 4/12/17

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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