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

Purdue Grad Wants His Invention To Reduce Food Deserts

A new appliance for the home could soon get mass produced, allowing owners to grow fresh fruits and vegetables without ever leaving their homes. Scott Massey, the CEO, and co-founder of Heliponix, has just unveiled his first GroPod and wants to see it become an appliance to tackle hunger.

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

After Soilless Babyleaf, Here's Hand-Less Babyleaf

Little Leaf Farms, one of the largest growers of hydroponic baby greens in North America, has officially opened its expanded greenhouse in Devens, Mass this week. The expansion doubles the size of the greenhouse from 2.5 acres to 5 acres, and more than doubles its annual production of baby greens.

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

Philips Lighting Is Now Signify

"The choice of our new company name originates from the way light becomes an intelligent language, which connects and conveys meaning," said Eric Rondolat, CEO of Signify.

IGrow PreOwned 5/29/18 IGrow PreOwned 5/29/18

Growing Up - Why The UAE's First Vertical Farm Could Be A Regional Gamechanger

When people picture the United Arab Emirates, what likely comes to mind are desert sands, skyscrapers and a blue sea under a shimmering sun. Agriculture does not.

IGrow PreOwned 5/29/18 IGrow PreOwned 5/29/18

Eco-Friendly Farming In A Shipping Container

The vertical farming market in 2016 was valued at somewhere between $1.5-$2 billion and it has people growing food in places like skyscrapers, warehouses, and yes, shipping containers,

IGrow PreOwned 5/26/18 IGrow PreOwned 5/26/18

CoBank: Controlled Environment Agriculture Experiencing Rapid Growth

CEA, a technology-based approach toward food production to use optimal growing conditions, often indoors, occurs in all 50 states, but the vast majority of the large facilities growing tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers are in the Northeast, West, and Southwest.

IGrow PreOwned 5/24/18 IGrow PreOwned 5/24/18

Princeton University’s Vertical Farming Project Partners With Hopewell Elementary

Princeton University’s Vertical Farming Project announced they will partner with Hopewell Elementary School in Hopewell, New Jersey to develop their vertical farm-to-cafeteria program.

IGrow PreOwned 5/21/18 IGrow PreOwned 5/21/18

Key Factors For Optimal Crop Production In Greenhouses And Vertical Farms By Professor Leo Marcelis of Wageningen University

Greenhouses and vertical farms around the world are faced with many of the same questions and obstacles when learning to manage crop production in controlled environment agriculture systems.

IGrow PreOwned 5/19/18 IGrow PreOwned 5/19/18

Lawrenceville, NJ - Lawrence H.S. Freshman Wins International Video Contest

A freshman from Lawrence High School was a first place winner from among 5,000 students participating in the international video contest, Population Connection's "World of 7 Billion".

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

US (WY): Vertical Harvest Celebrates Second Anniversary

On the verge of completing Hearts of Glass, the feature-length documentary following the first 15 months of Vertical Harvest’s operation, JenTen Productions wishes Jackson Hole’s vertical farm with a social mission, “Happy 2nd Anniversary.” The production company put together a short video for the celebration:

IGrow PreOwned 5/16/18 IGrow PreOwned 5/16/18

Startup Founder Demonstrates Importance of STEM Entrepreneurship to Elementary Students

“…I realized the final frontier for agriculture was not farm-to-table, but farm-and-table…”

IGrow PreOwned 5/15/18 IGrow PreOwned 5/15/18

Arctic Farmer Defies Icy Conditions To Grow Vegetables

One farmer/chef has taken it upon himself to try to grow food there.

IGrow PreOwned 5/13/18 IGrow PreOwned 5/13/18

A Crack In The Pavement: Growing Dreams

A Crack in the Pavement is a two-part video set that shows children, teachers, and parents how they can work together to ‘green’ their school grounds and make positive changes in their communities.

IGrow PreOwned 5/12/18 IGrow PreOwned 5/12/18

San Antonio, Texas - Idea Public Schools Program Shows Middle School Students Hydroponic Farming

Idea East Side is the first K-12 school in the nation to have the program

IGrow PreOwned 5/11/18 IGrow PreOwned 5/11/18

This Automated Greenhouse Fits In An Apartment

To improve access to vegetables among urban apartment dwellers, engineering students have created an indoor, automated greenhouse. “This allows them to grow fresh produce, everything from leafy greens to herbs to root vegetables,” says Harrison Lin, a member of the team from Rice University.

IGrow PreOwned 4/29/18 IGrow PreOwned 4/29/18

LifeLab Is Making The World’s Smallest Hydroponic Modules In Lebanon

LifeLab provides the world’s smallest turnkey vertical hydroponic modules. These modules connect to each other and then ultimately to an industrial grade automation system that runs the entire grow process with very little human intervention. LifeLab joined the Agrytech Accelerator Batch I in the Bootcamp and Acceleration phases.

IGrow PreOwned 4/23/18 IGrow PreOwned 4/23/18

Envisioning Innovation Buyer Building Mixed-Use Community Center At Former Polartec Plant

Among those expected to set up shop at IndusPAD is Beyond Organic, a Dutch indoor agriculture company, which is working to open a 30,000-square-foot hydroponic vertical farming facility to produce a range of lettuces and herbs.

IGrow PreOwned 4/21/18 IGrow PreOwned 4/21/18

How Elon Musk’s Brother Kimbal Musk Is Reimagining Farming

Kimbal Musk, brother of Tesla founder Elon Musk, has set up 10 sustainable farms in shipping containers that produce 50 to 100 pounds of food every week, the equivalent of that traditionally produced by 2 acres of farmland. He talks about his Square Roots urban farming project and reveals how you could enter a raffle to win his Tesla Mode

IGrow PreOwned 4/16/18 IGrow PreOwned 4/16/18

The Princeton Vertical Farming Project

The Princeton Vertical Farming Project (PVFP), located in Moffett Laboratory, was launched by Dr. Paul Gauthier, an associate research scholar in plant physiology and environmental plant metabolism in the geosciences department.

IGrow PreOwned 3/28/18 IGrow PreOwned 3/28/18

Hydroponics: The Future of Agriculture

In one of the many offices of HiMedia Laboratories in Mumbai, there is a lab that is working on basic research relating to plants – as an aid to promote hydroponics. Hydroponics, or vertical farming, is not a new concept.

Purdue Grad Wants His Invention To Reduce Food Deserts

After Soilless Babyleaf, Here's Hand-Less Babyleaf

Philips Lighting Is Now Signify

Growing Up - Why The UAE's First Vertical Farm Could Be A Regional Gamechanger

Eco-Friendly Farming In A Shipping Container

CoBank: Controlled Environment Agriculture Experiencing Rapid Growth

Princeton University’s Vertical Farming Project Partners With Hopewell Elementary

Key Factors For Optimal Crop Production In Greenhouses And Vertical Farms By Professor Leo Marcelis of Wageningen University

Lawrenceville, NJ - Lawrence H.S. Freshman Wins International Video Contest

US (WY): Vertical Harvest Celebrates Second Anniversary

Startup Founder Demonstrates Importance of STEM Entrepreneurship to Elementary Students

“…I realized the final frontier for agriculture was not farm-to-table, but farm-and-table…”

Arctic Farmer Defies Icy Conditions To Grow Vegetables

A Crack In The Pavement: Growing Dreams

San Antonio, Texas - Idea Public Schools Program Shows Middle School Students Hydroponic Farming

Idea East Side is the first K-12 school in the nation to have the program

This Automated Greenhouse Fits In An Apartment

LifeLab Is Making The World’s Smallest Hydroponic Modules In Lebanon

Envisioning Innovation Buyer Building Mixed-Use Community Center At Former Polartec Plant

How Elon Musk’s Brother Kimbal Musk Is Reimagining Farming

The Princeton Vertical Farming Project

Hydroponics: The Future of Agriculture

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