Bright Farms Takes Local Produce Model Nationwide With Hydroponics

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Bright Farms Takes Local Produce Model Nationwide With Hydroponics

It wasn’t too long ago when locally-grown produce evoked images of backyard gardens or roadside produce stands many miles outside of city limits.

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Way To Grow: Urban Farms Are An Amenity At Many Developments

As people increasingly demand to know where their food comes from, more developers are jumping on board to integrate urban farms into their project.

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Meet The Man Who Gave Singapore Local Strawberries

Farming is not so common in Singapore for two reasons, the first being obviously that land is scarce. Secondly, the hot and humid tropical climate isn’t suitable for all types of fruits and vegetables, meaning conventional local farms can produce bok choy, but not kale.

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Views On Local Food, Not A Kumbaya Chorus

Everything is not rainbows and unicorns when it comes to feelings about local food demand.

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Urban Farming Social Enterprise Bears Fruit For Local Community

BECOMING a farmer in Singapore sounds risky enough, but former digital marketer Bjorn Low decided to take it a step further by starting his own urban farming social enterprise, Edible Garden City.

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Vertical Farms Supersize Their Ambitions

After witnessing a crop of failures that struggled with money and scale, the indoor farming business is picking up momentum in a bid to better compete against traditional farms in freshness and yields while avoiding forces of nature, from pests to drought.

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Hydroponics Farm In Shipping Container Seeking Ann Arbor Restaurants

Kasim started off gardening as a hobby before realizing he could apply his engineering and logistics skills to hydroponics - a technique he discovered on a trip to Cambodia. "Gardening was dirty," Kasim said.

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Rep. Goyke Commends UW School for Urban Agriculture Initiative

The University of Wisconsin – Madison recently received a three year federal grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture to initiate the creation of a School for Urban Agriculture. The new school, as part of the University’s Farming the City Project, will target students, farmers, and non-profit staff.

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How Fruit And Vegetables Grown In Vertical Farms Could Soon On Plates In Water-Scarce Countries Across The Middle East

High-density, low-water facilities – often located in the heart of major cities – could transform food production in arid climates.

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Chicago's North Lawndale’s ‘Farm on Ogden’ Looks to Supply Fresh Produce, Jobs

Farm on Ogden, a 20,000-square-foot urban agriculture facility that aims to bring healthy foods and good-paying jobs to North Lawndale.

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Indoor Urban Agriculture Is Growing Up Thanks To These Cities

At this point, the benefits of indoor urban farming are common knowledge: fresher food, fewer transportation emissions, and less spoilage thanks to shorter transit distances.

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Panel Tackles Cities And Social Media

STOP talking about horticulture and agriculture and start talking about food, says science writer, Julian Cribb.

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Gotham Greens Raises $29 Million In Growth Equity Funding

Gotham Greens, a leading urban greenhouse developer and grower of locally and sustainably grown produce, has announced the closing of $29 million in Series C equity funding last month.

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An Amazon Veteran Joins Indoor Farming Startup

After helping the e-commerce giant automate its warehouses, Brian Donato will lead Bowery Farming’s efforts to scale up.

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iGrow News, Badia Farm Interview With CEO, Omar Al Jundi

Omar Al Jundi reminisces memories of going to the market with his father while growing up in Saudi Arabia and gazing upon the isles of produce with small flags indicating the country of origin.

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Oasis Biotech Brings Indoor Farming To Las Vegas

Seeing the building at 6225 Annie Oakley Drive you might not believe there's an entire farm inside. They're growing a lot of things and they'll start delivering to their first customers July 24.

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Next-Gen Leaders In Urban Farming - Josh Aliber

Josh joined Square Roots in 2016 as one of ten farmers in the inaugural season of our Urban Farming and Entrepreneurship Program. He’s now part of the R&D team, helping to design our future farming technology.

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Indoor Farm Hopes To Bring Locally Grown Produce, Technological Innovation To Las Vegas Food Market

Oasis Biotech, an indoor hydroponic farm in Las Vegas that’s gearing up to ship its crops to restaurants on the casino-dotted Strip. It’s the first step in a new-age farming process that doesn’t carry the traditional trappings of the industry. No soil, tractors or natural sunlight exist in this 215,000-square-foot-building-turned-farm.

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Berry Fresh Prospects For Vertical Farming

On the sidelines of a visit to an R&D laboratory belonging to Sus-tenir Agriculture, which developed a method to grow strawberries here, Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry Koh Poh Koon said government agencies will need to see how best they can change rules to assist vertical farms.

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UAE Signs Deal To Build 12 Vertical Farms In Dubai

The UAE’s Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MoCCAE) has signed an agreement with Shalimar Biotech Industries to establish vertical farms on the ministry’s land in Dubai.