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BIGH Raises €4.3m For Largest Urban Rooftop Farm In Europe

The startup, a developer and operator of urban farms in aquaponics, raised €4.3 million ($5.1 million) from a range of investors to fund the construction of a series of aquaponic farms in the heart of major European cities.

IGrow PreOwned 6/2/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/2/18

Brooklyn Grange Announces A New Location — In A Former WWII Shipyard

Inhabitat is thrilled to announce that New York City urban farming group Brooklyn Grange is launching its first location outside the city — at Kearny Point in New Jersey.

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Gotham Greens Grows Into Metro Baltimore

If your mental image of urban agriculture is of a food plot or garden between city buildings, you won’t recognize Gotham Greens, the high-tech agribusiness model now coming to metro Baltimore, Md.

IGrow PreOwned 6/2/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/2/18

NBA Player Builds A Modern Alternative Farm In Oklahoma

NBA player Ekpe Udoh is keeping busy during the off-season.

He's back in his hometown of Edmond working on his new urban farm. "Welcome to LGR Farms,” said Ekpe Udoh, owner of LGR Farms. A hydroponic container farm that grows vertical crops.

IGrow PreOwned 6/2/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/2/18

Kimbal Musk, Elon Musk's Brother, On Mission To Revolutionize How Americans Eat

With the amount of American farmers declining steadily, Musk isn't just investing in the technology to move farming into the future, but in future farmers themselves. In 2011, Musk co-founded his non-profit Big Green, bringing edible and educational nourishment to schools that need it most.

IGrow PreOwned 6/1/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/1/18

Are Container Farms The Future of Urban Agriculture?

In three years, the start-up Agricool, which grows strawberries in containers, has grown well. It has four containers that each produce seven tons of strawberries a year.

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Mill Creek, NJ Urban Farm Expands Greenhouses, Community Spirit

Two new greenhouses at the nonprofit Mill Creek Urban Farm will soon be filled with towering tomato and cucumber plants, grown hydroponically to provide year round produce to food pantries, senior centers, restaurants and schools.

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Hydroponic Farm Coming To Downtown Shreveport, Louisiana

406 Cotton Street is empty right now, but Michael Billings has big ideas for Cotton Street Farms.

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Nine of America’s Largest Urban Farms

The American urban farm comes in many guises but come it does. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 800 million people worldwide practice urban agriculture.

IGrow PreOwned 5/30/18 IGrow PreOwned 5/30/18

Local Entrepreneurs Bring Farming To The City With Urban Greens

In their basement, entrepreneurs Chad Treloar and Ted Myers grow arugula, sunflowers, sweet corn, cilantro, broccoli, lettuce and several other varieties of baby green vegetables.

IGrow PreOwned 5/28/18 IGrow PreOwned 5/28/18

Urban Farmer Jon Walsh Finds Fertile Ground In Tokyo

Seven years ago, Jon Walsh watched as earthquakes shook his home country of New Zealand and his current home in Japan. Like many, his mind turned to disaster-preparedness; however, his train of thought took a different track: food security.

IGrow PreOwned 5/27/18 IGrow PreOwned 5/27/18

The Big Plans of Barry Benepe

Over the course of his long career, Saugerties’ Barry Benepe has had a beneficial impact on the quality of life in our cities and towns. His greatest contribution is perhaps the founding, with colleague Bob Lewis, of Greenmarket, the network of New York City farmers’ markets that began in 1976.

IGrow PreOwned 5/25/18 IGrow PreOwned 5/25/18

A Revolution In Farming

On a recent walk one afternoon in Manhattan, I stumbled upon a shipping container. Parked on a small patch of concrete next to a subway exit in Soho, the steel box took up about the same amount of space as several parked cars. It was noticeable for its novelty but otherwise unobtrusive. I peered inside and saw electric pink lights and column after column of leafy greens.

IGrow PreOwned 5/23/18 IGrow PreOwned 5/23/18

Is it Really Safe To Eat Food Grown In Urban Gardens?

I wanted to start a vegetable garden in my backyard. But my yard is in Brooklyn, a land of street garbage, truck exhaust, and stray cats. So I decided to figure it out: Was it really safe to grow food there?