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Not So Viable After All: North America's First Vertical Urban Farm Files for...
Having visited Local Garden ourselves in 2012 and celebrated in its opening in a special blog post, it is disheartening to report on its recent bankruptcy. All farming, and especially vertical farming,...
View ArticleSimplified Hydroponics Training Workshop - India Feb 7-8
Simplified Hydroponics Training Workshop - India Feb 7-8: We are inviting you to attend the 2014 Soilless Gardening (India) Conference and Mini-Expo organized in Mumbai, India (Feb 7-8)At the...
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Vertical farming explained: how cities could be food producers of the future
Populations are growing and cities are booming – but could we soon see skyscrapers turned into centres for crop production? From Chicago warehouses to the south pole growth chamber in Antarctica, the...
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Vertical Farming Taking Root in Cities
Imagine stepping out of your high-rise apartment into a sunny, plant-lined corridor, biting into an apple grown in the orchard on the fourth floor as you bid “good morning” to the farmer off to milk...
View ArticleHenry interviews Grove Labs CEO Gabe Blanchet at the GFIA...
Henry interviews Grove Labs CEO Gabe Blanchet at the GFIA 2014 conference in Abu Dhabi.Grove builds monitoring and automation technology for indoor farms around the world. Grove was founded out of MIT...
View ArticleBrightFarms seeks to build worlds largest urban in NYC: 200,000 SF of...
BrightFarms seeks to build worlds largest urban in NYC: 200,000 SF of hydroponic greenhouse: We are entering a new age and scale of building-integrated agriculture.
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Underground Farm: Plans to Supply London With Fresh Produce
technologywater:"One hundred feet below the streets of London, a 2.5-acre farm will soon sell fresh veggies grown on a not-so-traditional farm."Repurposing underground tunnels, using solar-powered LED...
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More Details on Why Vancouver's Vertical Farm Went Bust
To all those who wanted to learn more about why Local Garden, Vancouver and North America’s first commercial vertical farm went bust: check out this article from the National.Vancouver-based Alterrus...
View ArticleAgriculture, technology converge at Indoor Agriculture Conference May 14-15,...
Agriculture, technology converge at Indoor Agriculture Conference May 14-15, Las Vegas: The 2nd Annual Indoor Ag-Con unites farmers, entrepreneurs, suppliers, tech geeks & investors to discuss...
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technologywater: Farming on one side, living on the other, and...
technologywater:Farming on one side, living on the other, and in a highrise, for density. WAY TO DESIGN A FUTURE!
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How the MIT CityFARM is Hacking the Indoor Farming Revolution
Last week we had the pleasure of attending the Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture (GFIA) in Abu Dhabi. While there we met with Caleb Harper and Emma Feshbach who are working on the MIT...
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Singapore’s ComCrop rooftop urban farm is thriving!...
Singapore’s ComCrop rooftop urban farm is thriving! Tucked away in the heart of Orchard Road is a uncommon sight for Singapore’s main shopping belt.A vegetable and fish farm called Comcrop is located...
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TEACHER TRAINING AT THE SUN WORKS CENTER STARTS THIS FRIDAY 2/28: REGISTER...
FRIDAYS ONLY, 4 TO 7 PMFEBRUARY 28TH TO APRIL 25TH Water, Energy, and Waste: Integrating Themes of Sustainability into Your Classroom offers k-8 science and classroom teachers the unique...
View ArticleThe Vertical Farm: Reducing the impact of agriculture on ecosystem functions...
Read this recent essay by Dr. Dickson Despommier on the benefits of vertical farming: The advent of agriculture has ushered in an unprecedented increase in the human population and their domesticated...
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iamsteeeve23: "The Greenhouse" Veritcal Farm in Florida. -...
iamsteeeve23:"The Greenhouse" Veritcal Farm in Florida. - Source
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Indoor Harvest Announces Plans to Build Aeroponic Vertical Farm in Texas
Indoor Harvest, Corp., through its brand name Indoor Harvest™, is a development stage company that seeks to become a design build contractor, developer, marketer and direct-seller of commercial grade...
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In Chicago, Emmanuel Pratt aims to turn blight into aquaponic farms and to...
As you turn south off 95th Street at Cottage Grove, you might miss the farm on your left. Most farms, after all, don’t look like abandoned shoe factories.That will change if Emmanuel Pratt has anything...
View ArticleWhile we think that Omega Garden has a fascinating solution to...
While we think that Omega Garden has a fascinating solution to high-density indoor growing, this video from their kickstarter campaign lacks, well, charisma.
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