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New Floating Farm Facility in NYC Designed To Withstand Storm Surge
The developer is building a 158,000 square foot floating farm structure located off the Hunts Point food distribution center in the Bronx
Malaysian Brothers Cultivate Indoor Farming
Agriculture technology firm Plant Cartridge Sdn Bhd has developed a growing kit to enable sustainable urban farming at home
Underground Farms Sprout in Seoul's Subway Stations
Subterranean vegetable farms are cropping up at subway stations in Seoul in a collaboration between Seoul Metro and an agricultural startup to utilize vacant spaces and diversify the subway operator's revenue sources
An Urban Farm Is In The Works For Milwaukee's Near West Side
Planet2Plate's plans include a building at 817 N. 27th St. and a lot at 2734 W. Wells St. that will be used for growing, processing and serving the produce grown on-site
Maryland Helps Grow Urban Rooftop Farms
Farm-to-table, the movement which looks to illuminate and shorten the distance between the two, is all well and good. But what if you're city-dweller living miles from the nearest farm?
Vertical Farming Startup Expands Through New Retail Deals With Whole Foods, Safeway
A South San Francisco farming startup is quickly growing its retail roots after landing new distribution deals with two of the area's largest grocers
Texas A&M Undergraduate Initiates Urban Farm On Campus
Urban farming comes in many forms, and now one of those, vertical farming, is helping feed students at Texas A&M University
SOUTH KOREA: Urban Farming Bonds Communities In Seoul
Tucked away in a dark, damp corner of an underground parking lot in Nowon-gu, northeastern Seoul, mushrooms mature under fluorescent lights. The vertical farm is tended by residents who live right above it, in Sanggye Hyundai Apartment Complex.
How 16 Initiatives Are Changing Urban Agriculture Through Tech And Innovation
The United Nations estimates (PDF) that nearly 10 billion people will live in cities by 2050. According to a recent publication by the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition
CALIFORNIA: Proposed Ordinance Would Promote And Protect Agriculture
UAIZ is intended to promote small-scale urban agriculture by providing a financial incentive for property owners of unimproved, underutilized, and vacant properties in census-designated urban areas to use their properties for agricultural uses
How This Chennai Firm Is Changing The Way We Consume Food
Housed in a bustling commercial complex on GP Road, the Sustenance Agritech office is an oasis of calm
Business Ideas For 2020: Urban Farming
With urbanization meaning we have less and less arable land for farming and agriculture, urban farming is the solution we need to continue feeding the world in the future. Unsurprisingly, then, this field presents a wealth of business opportunities
Let Them Eat The City, Say The Urban Farmers of Paris
From underground former car-parks to the rooftops of the famous skyline, an agricultural revolution is taking place
West Village Farms’ Indoor, Vertical Style A Growing Success
Inside the old Hewlett-Packard printer factory in east Vancouver, Ken Kaneko walks among towering rows of scaffolding that hold sprouted plants growing under LED lights
Modular Micro Farms: A New Approach To Urban Food Production?
One key tenet of the “urban resilience” idea is local food production. If fruits, veggies, and herbs are grown in cities, they’ll reduce the runoff, emissions, perishability and transport costs of produce
7 Smart City Urban Planning Ideas Using IoT
Square Roots, another high-tech vertical farming startup that has raised $6.5 million for its shipping container farms. At the helm is a somewhat familiar name, Kimbal Musk, the brother of a more familiar CEO who favors Twitter and flame throwers
Former Steel Site To See Aquaponics Facility
To the complex problems of the City of Duquesne and the Mon Valley, entrepreneur Glenn Ford offers a solution that is both down-to-earth and very fishy
Workers Grow Food And Develop Skills At Arnold Center’s Plant Factory
Arnold Center President Craig Varterian, who began this hydroponic business, called Arnold Farms after growing plants in his basement, likens the facility to a ‘plant factory’.
A Better Use For Sprawling, Big-Box Store Parking Lots? Urban Farms
A typical parking lot at a big-box store, sprawling over several acres, is empty most of the time. With a new design called Car Parks 2.0, the French design firm Studio NAB shows how that space could be reimagined as an urban farm, with a little room left at the side for charging electric cars from onsite solar panels
The Importance of Using Organic Fertilizers For Plant Nutrition In Contemporary Agriculture And Gardening
Currently, many people are using containers such as pots, flower boxes, raised garden beds, window boxes, and others to grow fruit-bearing plants, salad, and root vegetables and herbs, both in agriculture and urban gardening