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It's A season of Renewal At A Farm In Downtown Salt Lake City

Signs of new life are popping up in gardens across Utah this time of year. And there's a different type of renewal taking root on a farm in Salt Lake's Depot District.

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GrowTO Urban Agriculture Action Plan, Toronto: Urban Food Policy Snapshot

The GrowTO plan was released by the Toronto Food Policy Council in 2012. The plan was a collaborative effort by multiple food and environmental organizations in the city

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Is Farming In a Box Viable, or Just a Fad?

Bed in a bag, soup in a jar, cake in a cup and now ‘farm in a box’? As many urban-ag-ers jump on the shipping container farm bandwagon that’s made inroads across the pro-grow community, some are wondering if the farm in a shipping container idea is really as cost effective and sustainable as it may at first appear

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AeroFarms Partners With 100 Resilient Cities – Pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation To combat Climate Change And Food Insecurity

AeroFarms - the world leader in indoor vertical farming - announces a strategic partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities to combat climate change and food insecurity

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Obama Gave His First Speech Abroad, Post-Presidency, at Seeds&Chips

“It is possible for us to make real and steady progress over the next few years,” former President Obama stated. “The path to a sustainable future will require better seeds, better storage, crops that grow with less water, and crops that can grow in extreme climates.”

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7 Innovative Solutions That'll Help Us Combat Climate Change & Give Us A Chance At Survival

The threat of climate change has sprung several architects and designers into action to devise alternatives that work for everyone. Most of these ideas will be taken to fruition in the future to counter every ill-effect caused by global warming

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Harris County Pushes Vertical Farming Course

Harris County wants to develop a training program on indoor, vertical farming as part of its effort to reduce childhood obesity in north Pasadena

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Vertical Farm Competes With Conventional AG

Famgro Farms is using a vertical farm production system to successfully compete with conventional farming to produce healthier, better tasting food

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Championing The Green Cause

With Citizen Farm, Mr Ho hopes to show that urban farming is possible despite the common refrain that there is no land to farm in Singapore

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A Farm Beneath BC Hydro Power Lines In Langley?

The land beneath the BC Hydro lines that run through South Langley City could make a fine urban farm.The City of Langley, along with the Metro Vancouver regional authority and Kwantlen Polytechnic University have announced plans for a Langley Urban Agriculture Demonstration Project

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Vertical Farms Are Green—And Growing

AeroFarms is bringing innovation to Newark's Ironbound section and growing salad greens in vertical farms without the use of soil or sunlight

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Urban Agriculture Incentive Zones: Four Years In

The Urban Agriculture Incentive Zones Act will turn four years old this fall, and the California Legislature is now considering extending its statutory life. Conceived in 2013, the act — also known as AB 551 — allows cities and counties to provide landowners with a property tax deduction in exchange for committing their land to urban agricultural use for at least five years.

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Urban Farm And Mortgage Firm Latest In Line For N.J. Tax Breaks To MoveTo Camden

Two very different New Jersey businesses -- an online mortgage broker and an urban farming operation -- are in line for sizable tax incentives from the state’s Economic Development Authority this week to locate operations in Camden

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Bespoke Produce? New Farming Venture Tweaks Veggies to Suit Needs

You can get bespoke suits, shoes, and furnishings. Now, Bowery, a new indoor hydroponic farming venture based in New Jersey, is offering the same for greens and herbs. Think of it as ‘bespoke’ produce

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Seeds&Chips Starts By Examining How Millennials are Changing The Food System

The third annual Seeds&Chips Global Food Innovation Summit started off with a panel titled How Millennials Are Changing the Food System. Speakers discussed why young people are doing more than just taking pictures of their food. Their activity on social media platform indirectly spearheads change in the food industry

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28 Inspiring Urban Agriculture Projects

Around 15 percent of the world’s food is now grown in urban areas. According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), urban farms already supply food to about 700 million residents of cities, representing about a quarter of the world’s urban population. By 2030, 60 percent of people in developing countries will likely live in cities

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Urban Agriculture: Food, Jobs, and Lower Food Miles

Millions of urban dwellers cultivate vegetables and fruit trees in home gardens, both for their families and for sale. Around 15 percent of the world’s food is now grown in urban areas. According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), urban farms already supply food to about 700 million residents of cities, representing about a quarter of the world’s urban population

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Khetify's IoT Powered Rooftop Farm Has Caught The City Dwellers Fancy

Founded by IIT Kharagpur graduates, Kaustubh Khare and Saahil Parekh, Khetify is a startup promoting food sustainability to city dwellers

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Shanghai Is Building A Massive Agricultural District With A Vertical Farm

Shanghai is known for towering buildings, but now it wants towering farms

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5 Ways Urban Farming Benefits Utah's Cities And Residents

Urban farming may sound like your hipster cousin's latest hobby, but, in fact, it is transforming the way Utahns grow and buy their food. Over the past several years, the benefit of locally grown food is becoming more apparent