You Know Us as a Blog - Here’s What We Actually Do.
Many people know Agritecture as a blog.
Or maybe as that newsletter that lands in your inbox every week with the latest in urban agriculture, controlled environment agriculture and vertical farming. Maybe you first found us through an event, a conference panel, or an Instagram post about a vertical farm somewhere you didn’t expect. Maybe you’ve been reading our stuff for years and just think of us as “the CEA and urban agriculture content people.”
But today we want to share something that might surprise a lot of you: content has never been our core business.
Our core business is helping you plan smarter, build better, and grow more efficiently. We’ve worked on more than 350+ agriculture projects worldwide, from feasibility to harvest
Before anything else, thank you.
Over 200,000 of you follow our work across platforms. People reach out from six continents, and what started as writing about urban agriculture in 2011 has grown into something no business plan could have predicted. The community you've built around this work, the discussions, the curiosity, the genuine care about the future of food, is the reason Agritecture exists in the form it does today.
So thank you. For reading, sharing, and caring.
Now, here's what's been happening behind the scenes.
Here’s the part that surprises people.
While you’ve been reading our articles and attending our events, our team has been quietly working on over 350 agricultural projects across 45+ countries.
We have helped entrepreneurs figure out whether their farm concepts would actually make money, before they spent a dollar on equipment. We have designed vertical farms, greenhouses, rooftop systems, and hybrid facilities. We have sat in rooms with sovereign wealth funds and private equity firms, helping them understand whether a CEA investment was worth the risk. We have coordinated multi-million-dollar builds from blueprint to first harvest.
That is Agritecture’s real work. And it always has been.
The content, the newsletter, the events, those grew out of the consulting practice, not the other way around. We started sharing what we were learning from real projects because we believed the industry needed more transparency and better information. The audience grew because the insights were real. They came from the field, not from a marketing brainstorm.
But somewhere along the way, the content became so visible that it overshadowed the consulting work behind it. So consider this our attempt to set the record straight.
Agritecture is a global consulting firm specializing in controlled environment agriculture and climate - smart agriculture. We help people plan, design, validate, build, and optimize farms. That is the simplest way we can put it.
In more specific terms, here is what that looks like:
Feasibility Studies. You have a concept for a farm. Maybe you’ve found a warehouse, or you have land, or an investor is interested. We validate whether the concept is commercially viable through real market research, financial modeling, and preliminary design. About 40% of the projects we assess start out unprofitable in the initial model, and we refine them until they work. That’s the kind of thing you want to know before you spend your capital, not after.
Farm Design. Once the concept is validated, we turn it into construction-ready specifications. 3D models, system layouts, equipment specs, Bills of Materials. The deliverables your engineers and contractors need to break ground with confidence.
Implementation and Commissioning. The build phase is where things get complicated. Climate control, irrigation, lighting, automation, all from different vendors, all needing to work together perfectly. We act as the owner’s representative, coordinating everything from procurement through first harvest, 100% focus on your success.
Due Diligence. For investors evaluating CEA opportunities, we provide the technical and operational assessment that most funds don’t have in-house. Our database of 350+ projects gives us benchmarks that simply aren’t available anywhere else.
Operational Audits, Market Research, Workshops, and more. Whether you’re already operating and want to optimize, need market intelligence for a new region, or want to train your team, we have a service for that.
Our clients are entrepreneurs starting their first farm. They are corporations adding agriculture to their real estate. They are investors writing eight-figure checks into CEA. They are city governments building local food system strategies. They are existing farm operators who know something isn’t working and need a 360-degree assessment to figure out what.
What they all have in common is this: they are making important decisions about agriculture, and they want those decisions to be grounded in data, not guesswork.
That is our promise. We are technology-agnostic, we don’t sell equipment or have vendor relationships. Our only bias is toward your profitability.
If you are currently planning a farm, evaluating an agricultural investment, or thinking seriously about a CEA project, we would love to hear from you.
We start every relationship with a conversation, not a contract. We will learn about your project, share what we have seen across 350+ engagements, and give you honest guidance on the best path forward. If our services are a fit, we will tell you. If they are not, we will tell you that too.
You can reach us at agritecture.com/consulting-request. We respond within two business days.
We know many of you reading this are still exploring. Maybe you’re in the research phase. Maybe you’re a couple of years away from starting. Maybe the budget for consulting isn’t there yet.
That is completely fine. In fact, that is exactly where some of our best clients started, learning, exploring, building knowledge before they were ready to commit.
We have built two resources specifically for people in that stage:
Agritecture Designer and CEA Online Leafy Greens Training. ake a look at both to find the option that best matches what you’re looking for.
We started Agritecture Consulting because we believed the agriculture industry needed more honest, data-driven guidance. That belief hasn’t changed.
What has changed is the scale. What started as one person writing about urban farms has grown into a global consulting practice with a community of over 200,000 people who care about the future of food.
The blog, the newsletter, the events, they are not going anywhere. We will keep sharing what we learn. We will keep building this community.
But we wanted you to know the full picture. We are not just observers of this industry. We are in the field, every day, helping people build the farms that will feed the future.
If that’s a journey you’re on, we would be honored to walk it with you.
You can reach us at agritecture.com/consulting-request. We respond within two business days.