IGrow PreOwned 9/9/17 IGrow PreOwned 9/9/17

Urban Farms, Beacons of Self-Reliance, Change The Buffalo Landscape

"Growing food in the city is often cited for its potential economic benefit," the Pirates say on their website. "Whether or not urban farming is an economically viable profession, let alone holding the potential for economic development, the real value growing food in the city is the potential to improve quality of life and strengthen communities."

IGrow PreOwned 9/8/17 IGrow PreOwned 9/8/17

Vertical Harvest To Partner In Pennsylvania Project

Vertical Harvest will partner in the non-profit Lancaster vertical farm that is touted as bringing in jobs to mentally underdeveloped and disadvantaged and disabled people, as well as veterans, people with Down syndrome, autism or those who are unemployed or underemployed.

IGrow PreOwned 9/7/17 IGrow PreOwned 9/7/17

Downtown Farmer Raises Salad greens Year-Round Inside Freight Container

Harris, who sold his steel company a couple of years ago, had little experience in farming or gardening before he created Green Collar Farms , a "hydroponic vertical micro farm" located inside of a green and white re-purposed shipping container parked in a vacant lot on the city's lower West Side.

IGrow PreOwned 9/5/17 IGrow PreOwned 9/5/17

Why Agtech Grows In Brooklyn

The agriculture technology industry (agtech for short) has seen extraordinary growth in Brooklyn in the past several years. Local entrepreneurs are pushing the boundaries of what urban agriculture looks like despite the fact that New York appears an unexpected home for such disruption in farming space. Nevertheless, Brooklyn has become a fertile environment for the future of food.

IGrow PreOwned 9/1/17 IGrow PreOwned 9/1/17

The Finish Line Debuts On-Campus Farm

The vegetables grown on the farm will be distributed by Brandywine Creek Farms evenly to the wholesale market, to retailers and to charity.

IGrow PreOwned 8/31/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/31/17

Are You Really Ready To Start Your Urban Farm Operation?

Many urban farms fail. It’s good to be as prepared as possible when starting out so you don’t repeat the same mistakes as others.

IGrow PreOwned 8/31/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/31/17

Harlem Grown’s Tony Hillery: “Education Is The Way Out"

Hillery founded Harlem Grown to address the health and academic challenges facing public elementary school students in Harlem. In 2011, he began volunteering at a local elementary school and witnessed first-hand the lack of resources allocated to the schools and the poor nutrition of students. He transformed an abandoned garden, essentially a junkyard, into a thriving community garden.

IGrow PreOwned 8/31/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/31/17

Farming In A Shipping Container: It’s Happening In Grand Rapids

“The ultimate goal,” says Harris, “is that a person could make a middle-income living out of the crops that go to your local farm-to-fork restaurant, and groceries.” He believes that could help grow a community’s vitality, not just grow crops. Under-used spaces like vacant warehouses or dormant garages and basements could be transformed into vertical farms.

IGrow PreOwned 8/30/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/30/17

This Urban Farming Accelerator Wants To Let Thousands Of New Farms Bloom

With a new round of $5 million in seed funding, led by the Collaborative Fund, the accelerator is making plans to build new, larger campuses in other cities.

IGrow PreOwned 8/29/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/29/17

Future Farm To Double Size and Ramp Up Baltimore Vertical Farming Project With Second Location

The Company expects to gain site control of the second location in Baltimore within the next 7-10 days. This particular site is more accommodating to the Company's controlled environment agriculture ("CEA") technology requirements and requires less construction build-out. It is expected that this second location will be operational sooner than the original location and will therefore become Phase 1 of the Baltimore project.

IGrow PreOwned 8/29/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/29/17

Up On The Farm: Ambitious Urban Agriculture In The City’s Hilltop

Now 23 acres of the site are in the early stages of becoming one of the largest urban farms in the country. The nonprofit Hilltop Alliance, with many partners, is spearheading the plan that includes community-supported agriculture, an orchard, a farm market, an education center, greenhouses, storm-water ponds, and community garden plots.

IGrow PreOwned 8/29/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/29/17

Solar-Powered Bike Sharing Farm Is A Mobile Community Garden For The City (Video)

Bike Share Farm has been made with mobility in mind. Using off-the-shelf components, a portable hydroponic system with a series of zigzagging tubes forms a frame into which two different bikes can be slotted as the mobile garden travels from place to place. The hydroponic system's irrigation mechanisms are powered by a series of photovoltaic panels.

IGrow PreOwned 8/28/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/28/17

Hippie Amenities With a High-End Twist

Just as Birkenstocks and bee pollen have come back in style, so have crunchy lifestyle concepts, from yoga and meditation to composting and home fermentation.

IGrow PreOwned 8/28/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/28/17

Glasgow’s Community Gardens: Sustainable Communities of Care

These communities “are already suffering from higher than expected rates of many diseases, do not enjoy long life expectancy, and have to bear the stress of poverty and other forms of deprivation”

IGrow PreOwned 8/25/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/25/17

House, Senate Legislators Lay Groundwork For Urban Agriculture

The bills have very different initiatives but similar goals, with hopes to create economic opportunity and show support for farmers and ranchers in urban areas.

IGrow PreOwned 8/25/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/25/17

Dean Martel Joins BrightFarms as Vice President of Sales

Martel has more than 25 years of experience leading category growth in the consumer packaged goods industry. Most recently, he served as the Director of U.S. Retail Sales for It’s Fresh!, a food freshness technology company.

IGrow PreOwned 8/25/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/25/17

Freight Farmer Q&A: Nabeela Lakhani

In fall of 2016, Kimball Musk launched Square Roots, an urban farming accelerator program focused on training ten young entrepreneurs at a time to grow fresh, tasty, food year-round in Brooklyn, New York.

IGrow PreOwned 8/24/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/24/17

Montreal Supermarket Opens Up A Huge Rooftop Garden

Richard Duchemin, the owner of an IGA supermarket in Saint-Laurent in Montreal, was informed by the city he would have to add a green roof to the 25,000 square-food building he owned and he embraced the idea while taking this a step further.

IGrow PreOwned 8/24/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/24/17

Diane Brady: “The Only Way To Change The World Is Through Partnerships “

I’m inspired by the move to urban agriculture, energy-efficient protein sources like crickets, and attention to the conditions of workers and animals in the food chain. The biggest opportunity is to get people more involved in the process of creating food—from growing it to preparing it.

IGrow PreOwned 8/24/17 IGrow PreOwned 8/24/17

Urban Farming Incubator Square Roots Raises $5.4M

Founded by executive chairman Kimbal Musk (brother of Elon Musk, and board member at SpaceX, Tesla and Chipotle) and CEO Tobias Peggs (former CEO of Aviary), Square Roots launched a year ago in Brooklyn. Musk says it’s now accepting applicationsfor its second group of food entrepreneurs, selecting a city for its second location and it’s closed $5.4 million in seed funding.

Urban Farms, Beacons of Self-Reliance, Change The Buffalo Landscape

Vertical Harvest To Partner In Pennsylvania Project

Downtown Farmer Raises Salad greens Year-Round Inside Freight Container

Why Agtech Grows In Brooklyn

The Finish Line Debuts On-Campus Farm

Are You Really Ready To Start Your Urban Farm Operation?

Harlem Grown’s Tony Hillery: “Education Is The Way Out"

Farming In A Shipping Container: It’s Happening In Grand Rapids

This Urban Farming Accelerator Wants To Let Thousands Of New Farms Bloom

Future Farm To Double Size and Ramp Up Baltimore Vertical Farming Project With Second Location

Up On The Farm: Ambitious Urban Agriculture In The City’s Hilltop

Solar-Powered Bike Sharing Farm Is A Mobile Community Garden For The City (Video)

Hippie Amenities With a High-End Twist

Glasgow’s Community Gardens: Sustainable Communities of Care

House, Senate Legislators Lay Groundwork For Urban Agriculture

Dean Martel Joins BrightFarms as Vice President of Sales

Freight Farmer Q&A: Nabeela Lakhani

Montreal Supermarket Opens Up A Huge Rooftop Garden

Diane Brady: “The Only Way To Change The World Is Through Partnerships “

Urban Farming Incubator Square Roots Raises $5.4M

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