Growing a Global Movement at NYC AgTech Week 2019
Recapping NYC AgTech Week 2019! What we learned and how NYC AgTech Week is creating a global movement.
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Scottish Start-Up Plans To Build 40 Vertical Farms Across UK
Hydroponic farming specialist Shockingly Fresh is seeking investment as it unveils plans to build scores of indoor vertical farms, hailed as a more efficient, eco-friendly alternative to traditional methods.
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Magic Johnson Visits Hospital Greenhouse That Supports Urban Farmers
Magic Johnson visits AM Hydro’s vertical farming installation at Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey.
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Square Roots Opens Indoor Farm At Gordon Food Service's Headquarters
Gordon Food Service and Square Roots celebrated the opening of their strategic partnership’s first co-located farm on the campus of Gordon Food Service’s headquarters in Wyoming, Michigan.
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Pakistan's First Vertical Farm Sells Leafy Greens To Local Restaurants and Markets
Pakistan’s first vertical farm grows eco-friendly, fresh greens for sale to city’s finest restaurants and markets.
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A Hydroponics Startup Growing Basil Is Developing Their Own LED Technology
In this exclusive interview, Agritecture spoke with St. Louis Indoor Produce (SLIP), a hydroponics start-up growing basil in the heart of the city. We learned about a new lighting technology they are developing that allows farmers to capture their lights’ heat and vent it in or out as climate contro
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Inside The Indoor AgTech Landscape
AgFunder News interviewed Chris Taylor and Michael Rose to find out more about how they created the agtech landscape and things for readers to look out for.
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Fifth Season Raises $35M To Build Its First Commercial-Scale Indoor Vertical Farm
Fifth Season (originally founded as RoBotany) has come out of stealth mode with $35 million in funding and plans to build its first commercial-scale indoor vertical farm to be located outside Pittsburgh, in a historically steel-focused town.
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Students' Winning Design To Transform A Prison Into Living Lab
Agritecture Interviewed the winners of last year’s Urban Greenhouse Challenge. Wageningen University & Research challenged students to step outside their comfort zone. Their task was to develop an urban farming project for a former prison, working in interdisciplinary teams.
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Why Our Lives Depend On Regenerative Farming And Soil Health
In this interview, Agritecture speaks with David Melton of Fresh Harvest, a company redefining Atlanta’s local food community.
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Exclusive: Agritecture Interview With Manhattan's Largest Outdoor Urban Farm
In this exclusive Agritecture interview, we speak with Jonathan Sumner the farmer at Riverpark Farm. He tells us about the unique relationship between the farm and the restaurant and how they ensure the freshest ingredients are provided.
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How The Baking Industry Can Benefit From Vertical Farming
Agritecture’s Managing Director, Henry Gordon-Smith, recently spoke about vertical farming at the International Baking Industry Exposition during his Fresh Take Talk. Here he discusses how retailers can provide value-added products through vertical farming to enhance customer experience through fres
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Urban Farms Bring People Together and Create Sustainable Lives
Projects such as Melbourne Skyfarm and those by Hong Kong’s Rooftop Republic are turning busy urban areas into hubs of food production. Urban farms can also change the dynamics of a building, bringing people together and encouraging people to lead sustainable lives
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This Paris-Based Start-Up Is Combining Gastronomy and Sustainable Agriculture
An Agritecture exclusive interview with La Plucherie, a paris-based start-up giving chefs access to fresh, local rare herbs. Utilizing a small Indoor growing unit and a “Growtruck”, a showroom of the technical know-how.
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Forging Links Between Urban Agriculture and the Climate Agenda
As we grapple with the complex challenges associated with climate change, there is an important opportunity for urban agriculture to play a role in providing the solutions we collectively need.
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Wageningen University Organizes Second Urban Greenhouse Challenge Contest
In Urban Greenhouse Challenge, multidisciplinary student teams are challenged to bring professional food production into urban neighborhoods integrating social, economic, environmental and technical aspects in one coherent concept.
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NYC City Council Plans to Boost Food Security And Cut Food Waste
The New York City Council plans to boost food security in America’s most populated city—more than 1 million New Yorkers currently go hungry or lack access to healthy, nutritious food. With this new plan, Council speaker Corey Johnson plans to improve food policy, nutrition in schools, and make fresh
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EXCLUSIVE: Agritecture and AgTech Insight Announce A Strategic Alliance
AgTech Insight LLC, Salinas, CA and Agritecture LLC, Brooklyn, NY are excited to announce the formation of a strategic alliance between the two firms.
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America's Farmers Are Struggling, Policy Can Help Them
Policy is critical to help farmers at a time of crisis, a fact reflected in a strong bipartisan 2018 farm bill that improved the safety net for dairy producers and created new mental health assistance programs for farmers.
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New York's Rooftop Farms Help Stop The City's Sewage Problem
High above the streets of New York, more than 36 tonnes of organic vegetables are grown every year. And the farms that produce them aren’t just feeding residents – they’re helping to stop sewage polluting the city’s rivers too.
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The Future of Food: Why Farming is Moving Indoors
Jeffrey Landau, director of business development at Agritecture Consulting estimates the global value of the vertical farming market will rise to about $6.4bn by 2023, from $403m in 2013, with almost half that attributed to growth in the US.
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Affordable Housing Development In The Bronx Will Feature Agriculture To Feed Residents
Federal, State, and City Officials Join Project Renewal to Break Ground on Bronx Supportive and Affordable Housing Development Featuring Rooftop Fish and Produce Garden and Living Green Façade
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How to Attract High-Quality Capital to Your AgTech Business
AgTech entrepreneurs are full of energy and enthusiasm, however, many struggle to attract meaningful capital to their companies.
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This Vertical Farm Is Empowering People With Disabilities
Vertical Harvest is a company in Jackson Hole, Wyoming that cranks out roughly 100,000 pounds of produce each year. Many of its employees have developmental disabilities.
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How Mobile Multi-Tier Vertical Farming Solutions Will Reshape Your Operations
Written By Montel When you purchase new for your indoor farming operation, you’re investing in more than just the shelves and installation; you’re investing in a partnership. Montel is there for you, from your first inquiry into mobile racking to the last day of your installation (and beyond).
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Vertical Farming Is The American Dream For This Entrepreneur
A Utah family of Korean immigrants is hoping to tap into the vertical farming market.
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Backyard Fresh Farms Is Growing Produce At An Affordable Price
Jake Counne, the founder of Backyard Fresh Farms, believes his hydroponic farm has the technology to succeed where others have failed to make large-scale indoor vertical farming a profitable business.
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Food Production Create A Vicious Cycle
Greenhouse gases from food production create a vicious cycle: As Earth gets hotter, farming gets more difficult in many places, which forces farmers to clear more land to grow food.
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