Controlled Environment Agriculture has the immense potential to transform our local food systems and provide much-needed access to fresh produce. Nevertheless, it is crucial to sing praise to and nurture the small farms that play pivotal roles in creating alternative foodways and cultivating communi
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Meet the winning team of the third annual Urban Greenhouse Challenge, hosted by Wageningen University & Research.
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Much of the controlled environment agriculture (CEA) industry currently focuses on improving the cost and efficiency of growing (supply). However, the industry must also work on increasing consumer demand for CEA-grown specialty products, which is critical to the sector’s overall growth.
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Since their founding in 2017, Smallhold has seen exponential growth, with their most recent expansion into 192 Sprouts Farmers Markets locations across California, Arizona, and Nevada. Agritecture spoke with Smallhold’s Chief Sales Officer, Aurora Porter, and Marketing Director, Abigail Knoff, to ga
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The Utopian Seed Project is growing dozens of types of okra in one North Carolina field, creating genetic collisions that build new, resilient varieties. The group is working to adapt more food crops to the changing climate.
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Award-winning design team 3DELUXE has developed a superyacht concept that grows food on-board!
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The neighborhood farm is back! After experiencing the hardships brought about by Covid-19, Farm.One has returned to Brooklyn with their inspiring story of revival, access, and sustainability. Agritecture spoke with Rob Laing, founder and CRO of Farm.One, to learn more about what this reopening means
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Desert regions are known for their extreme temperatures, lack of water, and arid soils, making it almost impossible to grow crops. However, iavs and sandponics are approache to agriculture that could provide a solution to food insecurity in desert regions.
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Meristem Communities' Clayton Garrett explains the idea behind Indigo, a community built around a human-scale working farm and pasture.
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The biological controls brought with controlled growing environments are being looked at as a potential solution to food safety problems.
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As concerns about food security, sustainability, and urbanization continue to grow, more and more architects are exploring ways to integrate agriculture into their projects. Whether it's a community garden on a residential development, a rooftop farm on a commercial building, or a green wall in a pu
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Universities looking to incorporate vertical farming into their programs can benefit from Agritecture Designer. By offering access to our courses and modeling tool, universities can provide students with an immersive and hands-on learning experience that will prepare them for a career in this emergi
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More than half of all people on Earth live in cities, and that share could reach 70% by 2050. But except for public parks, there aren’t many models for nature conservation that focus on caring for nature in urban areas. One new idea that’s gaining attention is the concept of food forests – essential
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With Agritecture Designer, our data-backed farm-planning platform, you can plan the farm of your dreams and get started on your controlled environment agriculture (CEA) journey. Our software features templates from equipment providers who are a part of the Agritecture Partner Network.
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We teamed up with Microsoft and Asahi to help the Czech legacy of producing hops and beer flourish.
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The vertical farming sector is relatively new, with just over ten years of innovation. The sector itself has created many operators, suppliers, and tech companies, yet there have also been companies entering from outside the sector with transferable technology. Montel is an exciting success story th
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Small actions towards community self-sufficiency and food sovereignty can have resounding effect on the longterm health and sustainability of the land, the people, and the local food system.
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How does a family shop for food in the age of climate and pandemic crises? How does a city ensure that its most vulnerable have consistent access to nutritious, affordable food?
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The following list details some of the many women leading the charge in the agricultural industry. As there are numerous women in agriculture around the world specializing in technology, operations, business development, and more, this list is not exhaustive but rather meant to illustrate the variet
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In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s capital city, Khalid Shokair and his family have established Bather Smart Farm, a 2500-square-meter facility that grows microgreens, edible flowers, salad greens, and herbs. They are pioneering vertical farming in the region and operate the first smart farm of its kind in S
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The United States’ agricultural history concentrated power through exploited labor on stolen land. As the nation’s first expert agriculturalists, Black and Indigenous peoples built the frameworks of the North American farming system as we know it today, yet face the most barriers to accessing land a
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Each farm model comes with its own set of pros and cons, especially concerning startup costs, operation costs, and climate control. On Agritecture Designer, you can compare CapEx, OpEx, and yields from vertical farms, greenhouses, or container farms.
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As farmers worldwide grow increasingly concerned by climate change, it is critical to adopt new practices that ensure the sustainability of their crops and land. One way farmers can increase their resilience is controlled environment agriculture (CEA), which can help to optimize their operations and
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Meet Mattia Marinello, a first-generation snail farmer, farming snails outdoors in large, outdoor pens in Northern Italy.
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Projects such as this proposed “agri-hood” are reimagining the ways in which communities can provide access to housing and food security through frameworks of racial justice, collaborative leadership, and environmental sustainability.
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The Hybridization of Agriculture illustrates the notion that there is greater potential output when we consider all the possible methods of agriculture and match them to find synergies. However, finding this balance requires thought and time. Here are some examples.
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In February, I visited the new AeroFarms R&D facility, intended to bring the latest in vertical farming and indoor farming research and development to the UAE. It was great to see one of the earliest VF companies celebrating their growth with familiar faces from around the world, and this i
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Agritecture Designer recently introduced a new modeling feature: the ability to design container farms. This method of farming has many advantages for the right farmer and is a great way for smaller operations to get off the ground because of the (typically) lower CapEx involved in opening the farm.
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