Urban, Aquaponics, Farming, USA IGrow PreOwned 6/6/17 Urban, Aquaponics, Farming, USA IGrow PreOwned 6/6/17

Partnership Brings Fresh, Eco-Friendly Produce to Area Hospitals, Clinics

An new partnership between Urban Organics and four HealthPartners hospitals and clinics in the St. Croix Valley has made it simpler for patients and health care staff to be eco-friendly

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Pentair, Urban Organics Open Aquaponics Farm In Old Schmidt Brewery

Urban Organics worker Lee Scoggins flicked a cup of powder into a large blue pool and watched as 50,000 tiny salmon, each the size of a paper clip, darted toward dinner inside the newly converted old Schmidt Brewery plant in St. Paul.

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State of Indoor Farming Report - September 2016

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Urban, Rooftop Farm, World IGrow PreOwned 6/4/17 Urban, Rooftop Farm, World IGrow PreOwned 6/4/17

Urban Farming in Singapore Has Moved Into A New, High-Tech Phase

In community gardens found in housing estates, schools and even offices, urban farms are taking root in Singapore. Such farms are not ornamental gardens. Instead, gardeners plant vegetables and fruit such as cabbage, basil and lime to eat.

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Urban, Farming, USA, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 6/3/17 Urban, Farming, USA, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 6/3/17

Nabeela Lakhani: I’m Taking Action To Create Solutions

Square Roots, a new urban farming accelerator located in Brooklyn, New York, is producing as much food as a 20-acre farm without using any soil. The-five month-old company puts hydroponic growing systems in old, repurposed shipping containers. Each container is capable of producing roughly two acres of food, without the use of pesticides or GMOs. Each container only uses eight gallons of water per day. That’s less than your morning shower.

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Urban, Farming, USA IGrow PreOwned 6/3/17 Urban, Farming, USA IGrow PreOwned 6/3/17

Kids Who Grow Vegetables, Eat Vegetables

Kids who grow vegetables are more likely to want to eat them. A recent report by Cornell University found that salad consumption increased by 400% when kids had been involved in growing the ingredients.

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Urban, Rooftop Farm, World IGrow PreOwned 6/3/17 Urban, Rooftop Farm, World IGrow PreOwned 6/3/17

The Non-Profit Urban Roots Has Broken Ground For Its First Planting This Spring

Cars and trucks speed down the hill along Highbury Avenue, past the transmission towers and a former horse pasture just north of the Thames River.

It would be simple enough to miss seeing the newly tilled patch of earth in the middle of an open green field that used to be horse pasture.

There are big plans for that little bit of turned-over urban ground. For the people behind London’s first not-for-profit organic urban farm, it’s a big step back to the community’s agrarian roots and using empty spaces to produce food.

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Urban, Rooftop Farm, World IGrow PreOwned 6/2/17 Urban, Rooftop Farm, World IGrow PreOwned 6/2/17

Downtown Victoria Condo Project Offers ‘New Ethos’ In Urban Living

Each unit is assigned not only the standard parking spot and storage locker, but a four-by-eight-foot rooftop garden plot as part of an urban farm concept, complete with an apiary to aid in pollination.

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Urban, Agriculture, USA, Greenhouse IGrow PreOwned 6/1/17 Urban, Agriculture, USA, Greenhouse IGrow PreOwned 6/1/17

Des Moines Power Brokers Want to Build Massive Greenhouses Downtown

A group of business leaders want to build a string of greenhouses on the south side of downtown. They call it the Des Moines Agricultural Corridor.

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Urban, Farming, USA, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 6/1/17 Urban, Farming, USA, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 6/1/17

Fresh Veggies Grown Close to Home, Without Pesticides — And Without Dirt

An ambitious project of emerging agricultural technologies that produce food without soil is taking shape at Biosphere 2, the University of Arizona’s research complex north of Tucson.

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Seeds Of Change: Mini Gardens Help Drive The Growth Of Food At Home

The short, but intense, growing season in Vermont might be a drawback for some, but for native son Cam MacKugler, it has turned out to be the key to developing his container garden kit startup, Seedsheet.

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Social Entrepreneurs Grow A 'Computer Garden' At Zahn Innovation Center​​​​​​​

A "computer garden" for urban farming that grows food without soil or harmful chemicals. That's the mission of SyStem, a fledgling New York City startup founded by two engineering students at The City College of New York.

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London Fights Urban Agriculture’s Peskiest Pest: Red Tape

Urban farms offer cities a multitude of benefits, but municipal bylaws have long hindered them. London councillors are hoping to change that with a new strategy

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Urban, Farming, USA, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 6/1/17 Urban, Farming, USA, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 6/1/17

Cloud Controlled Mini-Farms | AUDIO Interview - Smallhold

Very soon, grocery stores will be cloud-controlled mini-farms with shelves of growing produce -- according to the co-founders of the Bushwick, Brooklyn startup Smallhold.

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Farming, Aquaponics, Urban, USA, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 5/31/17 Farming, Aquaponics, Urban, USA, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 5/31/17

From Slaughterhouse To Vertical Farm: The Plant Is Innovating In Sustainability And The Circular Economy

In 1906, Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” depicted the harsh conditions workers toiled under inside the slaughterhouses of the Union Stock Yard and Packingtown. A century later, this area that gave Chicago its brawny identity as “hog butcher for the world” is now home to several new food businesses focusing on sustainability, and The Plant in Back of the Yards is its epicenter

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Urban, Farming, World IGrow PreOwned 5/31/17 Urban, Farming, World IGrow PreOwned 5/31/17

Jakartans To See More Urban Farming

Jakartans will have a greener city soon as the city administration is promoting urban farming in the capital

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Urban, Farming, World IGrow PreOwned 5/31/17 Urban, Farming, World IGrow PreOwned 5/31/17

Emphasizing Product Quality Over Narrative, an Urban Farming Enterprise Thrives

Careful planning, adequate startup capital and experience working on a traditional rural farm are just three of the elements that veteran urban farmer, and co-founder of Vancouver’s Sole Food Street Farms, Michael Ableman feels are necessary to be successful in the new urban agriculture movement

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Urban, Farming, USA, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 5/30/17 Urban, Farming, USA, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 5/30/17

AeroFarms To Open World’s Largest Indoor Farm In Camden

AeroFarms will soon surpass itself as the world’s largest indoor vertical farm with a second and larger New Jersey location in Camden

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Urban, Farming, World, Videos, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 5/29/17 Urban, Farming, World, Videos, Vertical Farming, Indoor Farming IGrow PreOwned 5/29/17

The Urban Farmer: Interview With João Igor of CoolFarm

Created out of necessity, CoolFarm now offers smart farming solutions that allow you to plug, play, and produce fresh food all year round

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Urban, Farming, USA IGrow PreOwned 5/28/17 Urban, Farming, USA IGrow PreOwned 5/28/17

La Bajada Urban Youth Farm Grows Good In West Dallas

Nothing like a Sunday afternoon brunch, with a great purpose. The La Bajada Urban Youth Farm hosted its first ever “Farm to Community Brunch” with local chefs providing the meal and all the proceeds going to help La Bajada, a community garden in West Dallas

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