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This Stylish Table Is the “Next Generation” of Automated Urban Farming

One of the more promising urban-farm concepts is not in New York, Los Angeles, or any other major city. It’s in Charlottesville, Virginia, courtesy of one University of Virginia alum and a very small team of employees.

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How An Ecological Approach to Architecture Can Help Reinvent Urban Food Systems

Fish, plants, and water are combined in Aqualoop, a continuous loop of cleaning, growing and eating.

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Farmers of The Future at Urban Organics

In the middle of St. Paul, tucked inside a brewery that sat empty for years, life is thriving in the dead of winter. No soil. No natural light. Just a white pipe that carries the lifeblood of the entire operation from room to room: water. Kale, red romaine, and other leafy greens grow on racks stacked five planters high.

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Elon Musk's Brother Is Helping Millennials Quit Their Desk Jobs And Become Farmers

Young people are returning to farming: the number of farmers between the ages of 25 and 34 increased 2.2 percent between 2007 and 2012, according to the USDA's last farming census. Kimbal Musk has an accelerator, Square Roots, that teaches millennials how to farm out of a shipping container in Brooklyn. Musk says today's millennial farmers are trying to make a difference in how food is produced.

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Robbinsville Officials Hope New Hydroponic Farm Becomes Community Hub

Nestled at the municipal complex just yards away from the Little Red Schoolhouse—an icon of Robbinsville’s past—rests a repurposed shipping container officials say is a symbol of the township’s future.

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Local Company Partners With Dockery's To Offer True 'Farm-To-Table' Experience

In partnership with Dockery’s and sister Summerville company Tiger Corner Farms, which repurposes the shipping containers and builds the aeroponic farming systems, Vertical Roots has set up shop in the heart of downtown Daniel Island to give residents a true “farm-to-table” experience.

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3 Cities That Are Reinventing The Urban Farm

As global food insecurity rises, companies and cities are looking for ways to transform the urban farm into something more than a yuppie pastime.

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Before ‘Plantscrapers’ Can Grow Food in The City, They’ll Need to Grow Money

When Hans Hassle imagines the future, he sees urban farms and office spaces growing side-by-side. He sees half-green high rises providing Stockholm with lettuce, spinach, and swiss chard. 

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How This Startup Produces 700 Tonnes of Fruits and Vegetables Without Soil

Triton Foodworks started as an experiment in urban farming in September of 2014 by four friends — Deepak Kukreja, Dhruv Khanna, Ullas Samrat, and Devanshu Shivnani.

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Tokyo Rail Operator Explores 'Train To Table' Urban Farming

As urban farming becomes increasingly popular across the globe, Tokyo's most-used rapid transit system, Tokyo Metro, is dabbling in hydroponic farming in an unused warehouse space below the system’s elevated transit lines. 

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Urban Farms Can Help Plant Seeds For Cities’ Growth Around Them

Since 2011, Gotham Greens has operated a 15,000- enclosed rooftop greenhouse in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, N.Y., that produces over 100,000 lbs of leafy greens annually.

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Salad Made in Panasonic's High-Tech Indoor Farm Hits The Market

Catering company Tong Chiang Group has come up with a new salad using locally grown vegetables supplied by Panasonic, and salad dressings inspired by two popular local dishes - chilli crab and Hainanese chicken rice.

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Vertical Farming Concept to Help Food-Insecure Community

A Toronto, Ontario-based company has brought his proof of concept vertical farming system to be part of an initiative to grow food for the non-profit community in Windsor. 

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Pure Harvest Rakes In $4.5 Million

Pure Harvest Smart Farms, a tech-enabled arid climate agribusiness based in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, announced today a historic Seed investment of USD $4.5 million in a financing round that was significantly oversubscribed.

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US Businesses Making Farming Technologies for Cities

How do you get the freshest, locally grown fruits and vegetables in a big city?  For an increasing number of Americans, the answer is to grow the fruits and vegetables themselves.  Businessman Cam MacKugler can help. He is the founder and chief executive officer of Seedsheet.

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Farming Gains Ground In The City

THE notion that farming is an activity that requires a huge land area has been clearly debunked as urban farming gains ground among Malaysian city dwellers.

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Urban Farming Technologies Crop Up in Homes, Restaurants

How do you obtain the freshest, locally grown produce in a big city? For an increasing number of urbanites, the answer is to grow it yourself.  Cam MacKugler can help. MacKugler was at the recent Food Loves Tech event in Brooklyn, New York showing off Seedsheets, roll-out fabric sheets embedded with seed-filled pods.

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This Shipping Container Is A High-Tech Growing Machine | Editorial

The township recently laid claim to being the first New Jersey municipality to take delivery of a portable, hydroponic box farm.  It's basically a 40-foot-by-80-foot metal shipping container that has been converted into a high-tech growing machine.

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Whole Foods Helping Backyard Growers Grow 

Gloucester’s Backyard Growers has grown yet another garden, this one with the help of Whole Foods Markets' Whole Cities Foundation.  Backyard Growers was awarded a $5,000 Community First Grant by the nonprofit foundation, one of three founded to support thriving, self-sustaining local community food systems.

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What’s It Like to Be a Vertical Farmer?

You’ve probably seen enough videos and photos of vertical farms: Racks and racks, levels and levels within LED-lit warehouses, growing ‘perfect’ produce year-in, year-out. You might see a white-jacketed figure in the distance, tiny against the equipment. The focus is firmly on the technology, not the people.

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