Urban Farm Hopes City Grant Will Sow Seeds For Local Produce Industry
Sunspring’s co-founder and CEO Chad Kolesnik said he’s hoping to partner with the city and local not-for-profit Fresh Routes to grow produce hydroponically.
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Greening The Camps: Empowering Refugee Communities With Food Production
Greening the Camps is a collective of young designers, crafters, plant lovers, and social activists in Jordan, working to reconnect the refugee community with their farming heritage, providing a low-tech solution to food insecurity and creating a tiny green oasis amid the harsh reality of the camps.
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The 8 Most Popular Mushroom Cultivation Techniques For Commercial Growers & Amateur Mycologists
Mushroom cultivation is the art and science of harnessing mycelium, the root-like structure of fungi, to promote the growth of mushroom fruiting bodies.
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New Study Shows How Much Food Transport Contributes To Emissions
Food systems create 35% of global greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.
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This B-Corp Is Making Sustainability A Priority For Chefs, Restaurants, & Food Groups
Harvest London is a vertical farm growing herbs and leafy greens in London, that has expanded their operations beyond the pilot stage into their very first full-scale operation. This success is owed to the renewed interest in controlled environment agriculture throughout England.
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Building Sustainable Brands With Agritecture's Digital Marketing Manager
Meet Agritecture’s Senior Digital Marketing Manager, Isabelle Dom!
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USDA Announces Assistance For On-Farm Food Safety Expenses for Specialty Crop Growers
The USDA plans to provide up to $200 million in assistance for specialty crop producers who incur eligible on-farm food safety program expenses.
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A Social Enterprise Celebrates Their First Year In Operation During An Economic Meltdown
Meet Farms Not Arms (FNA), a design collective that recently celebrated the completion of their social enterprise, Turba Farm’s, first year after navigating Lebanon’s scary economic meltdown.
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Soil-Free Farming & Solar Agriculture Are Part Of Chile’s Carbon Neutral Plan
Traditional agriculture in Chile is challenged by the pressing issues of climate change, desertification, water shortages, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Vertical farming presents a strong solution to these problems by allowing for food production with reduced water and land use.
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Wasting Food Is Wasting Water: Unveiling Food’s Water Footprint
Food waste is water waste.
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From Chef To Brewer & Urban Farmer: How One Entrepreneur Is Closing The Loop
Avling Brewery, a restaurant and brewery with a rooftop farm, approached Agritecture when they were looking to expand production of their rooftop farm and explore opportunities to integrate controlled environment agriculture.
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Mushrooms, Metropolises, & More With Agritecture’s Agriculture Technologist
Meet Agritecture’s Agriculture Technologist, Justin Hyunjae Chung!
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I want to be an ‘agritect’
Seven years ago, I remember staring across West Broadway in Vancouver (Canada) at an empty rooftop above a Safeway grocery store. I couldn’t help but wonder how a greenhouse on the supermarket’s rooftop would look like and function
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Smallhold Expands: Meeting West Coast Demand & Accelerating Circularity
Smallhold has announced the opening of their third mushroom farm in California!
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Food Miles Account For A Sickening Amount Of Emissions
A new study has found that 'food miles' account for 19 percent of all food emissions.
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Sunway XFarms To Launch Largest Indoor Vertical Farm In Kuala Lumpur
Sunway XFarms, a Malaysia agritech company, will launch Kuala Lumpur city centre’s largest indoor vertical farm in the third quarter of 2022.
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Bringing Food Production Back To Cities
We need to inspire city governments, urban planners, developers and architects to rethink the way cities are designed.
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NYC Agriculture Collective & Thought For Food Partner For NYC AgTech Week 2022
The NYC Agriculture Collective & Thought For Food Foundation join forces to launch the 7th Annual NYC AgTech Week and the First-Annual Generation Fest.
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Perfumes & Pharmaceuticals: How Vertical Farms Are Disrupting Industries
Jungle is entering the perfume and cosmetics industries, launching R&D programs to better extract rare flowers for special recipes.
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Inside The Movement To Turn Residential Communities Into Farming Collectives
For most Americans, by the time a piece of fruit or vegetable lands on your counter or in your refrigerator, it has traveled about 1,500 miles. For residents of Detroit's North End community, it’s a matter of a couple of city blocks.
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Reusable, Zero-Waste, Raw & Cardboard: 4 Solutions To Plastic Packaging
Food packaging, which is often designed to be single-use, is one of the biggest polluters. Here are 4 brands looking to change that.
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Kalera’s New R&D Director Bets On Sensing Technology To Push Vertical Farming Forward
Kalera is pushing forward their commitment to innovation with the recent hire of a Global R&D Director. Here’s an exclusive interview!
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Vertical Farms Have The Vision, But Do They Have The Energy?
Unlike traditional outdoor growing, indoor farms are dependent on LED lighting. Using fossil-fuel-powered electricity can undermine the potential environmental benefits.
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How Creating A Healthy Soil Microbiology Can Help Us Reverse Climate Change
In calling for an urgent change in farming practices, “regenerative agriculture” has become a major buzzword in many agriculture and climate circles.
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4 Of The Biggest Challenges For CEA Entrepreneurs In India
Here are the top four obstacles we’ve observed in the struggle to establish a thriving CEA industry in India.
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Green Basket To Launch Vertical Farm With iFarm Tech In Riyadh
Launching the first vertical farm in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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Three Industry Problems Affecting The Cost Of Your Leafy Greens
Unclear industry metrics and definitions for leafy greens is causing inaccurate pricing for consumers.
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India’s Relationship With Food Is Changing. Its Urban Agriculture Policies Need To Change With It.
India’s food system is faltering. Traditional agricultural methods continue to be strained by the depleting availability of natural resources and extreme weather conditions.
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