Locally Grown Produce is Gaining Popularity in UAE
Locally grown produce is gaining popularity in the United Arab Emirates.
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Canada's First Vertical Mushroom Farm Grows On Artificial "Trees"
The Nisku operation is the only indoor vertical mushroom farm of its kind in Canada. It specializes in tree-loving mushrooms, so you won’t see any regular grocery store portobello or button mushrooms growing here.
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Why New Zealand Needs Vertical Farms
New Zealand has a strong field agriculture industry, but don’t its cities deserve farms too?
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Farming Better Through Yoga
Yoga and farming are both ancient practices, but did you know that the connections between the two are numerous?
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Liberty Produce Leads £1.3m Project To Revolutionize Vertical Farming in the UK
Liberty Produce, a UK-based farming and technology company with expertise in horticultural lighting and fertigation systems will lead a consortium of eleven partners in a £1.3m project to accelerate the development of the UK vertical farming sector.
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Farmee Introduces New Platform to Support Farmers Remotely
German AgTech startup Farmee and well-known Dutch crop consulting company Delphy just launched the online platform Farmee Experts
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5 Plant Resolutions To Make This Year
5 things you’ll start doing to take care of your plants!
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New Wave of AgTech Startups are Putting Robots in the Fields
A four-wheel robot dubbed "Tom" uses GPS, artificial intelligence and smartphone technology to digitally map the field to inspect wheat crop for weeds and pests.
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Urban Farms Could Be Incredibly Efficient—But Many Aren’t Yet
A new study from Australia finds that many urban farms are still inefficient around labor and materials.
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New Study Reveals Touching Plants Could Stunt Growth
La Trobe University-led research has found that plants are extremely sensitive to touch and that repeated touching can significantly retard growth.
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This Floating Greenhouse is a Self-Reliant Food System
Designed by Studiomobile, Jellyfish Barge is a modular greenhouse on a floating base, able to guarantee water and food security without impacting on existing resources.
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Students Develop Concept to Convert Former Prison into Urban Greenhouse
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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America’s first 100% organic, self-sustainable neighborhood is in Detroit
Could fresh, healthy, affordable food be the future of urban neighborhood development?
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Gardening Could Help Increase Life-Expectancy
Gardening could be the hobby that helps you live to 100.
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Straight Out of a Sci-Fi Movie, High-tech Farmers are Using LED Lights in Transformative Ways
In agricultural applications, LED lights are used in ways that seem to border on alchemy, changing how plants grow, when they flower, how they taste and even their levels of vitamins and antioxidants.
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Are Trump's Immigration Policies Causing Recent Food-Safety Outbreaks?
In formal investigations, we collect data on what bacteria were found where—but we don’t talk about what workplace conditions led to poor sanitation in the first place.
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8 Things You Need to Know About the 2018 Farm Bill
The 2018 Farm Bill includes wins for greenhouse growers.
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Alemany Farm: A 3.5 Acre Urban Agriculture Oasis In San Francisco
With 38 rows of crops and an “urban orchard” of 140 fruit trees, this is San Francisco’s largest urban farm.
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Singapore Changi - "World’s Best Airport" - to Open a Valoya Lit Indoor Garden
Valoya’s LEDs will provide additional lighting to the dome’s 2,000 trees and over 100,000 plants.
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4 Indoor Plants for Air Purification
Through the process of “phytoremediation” plants remove volatile organic compounds (VOCs) like formaldehyde, benzene, ammonia, and allergens from the air.
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Amsterdam Startup ‘Hrbs’ Pushes the Limit for Locally Grown Produce
Not exactly an urban farm, Hrbs is a service model that brings living plants right to the consumer where they continue to grow until harvest.
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USDA Awards $5M For Hydroponic Growing System That Uses Wastewater To Grow Vegetables
The system will use biological treatment processes, nanomaterials and machine learning to extract contaminants from the wastewater while leaving valuable nitrogen, phosphorus and other nutrients.
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From Gangstas to Growers: This Atlanta Program is Turning Ex-Cons into Urban Farmers
An ambitious young activist is using the local food movement to help break the cycle of incarceration.
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Vertical Farming Company 'Bowery' Raises $90 Million In New Funding Round
Bowery plans to use this new funding across three main areas: building out operations, expanding products and partnerships, and growing their team.
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Holiday Gift Guide: 12 Gifts for the Plant-Obsessed Person in your Life
Everyone knows one person who is a little bit plant-obsessed! Here is Farmer Nick’s ultimate holiday gift guide for that plant-crazed person in your life.
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How Can Cities Be "Smart" Without Food?
Food is often left out of the Smart City discussion, yet it remains a critical urban system that stands to benefits from a data-driven and connected approach.
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IKEA to Launch Line of Urban Farming Products to Encourage City-dwellers to Grow Food
IKEA has teamed up with British designer Tom Dixon to launch an urban farming project that encourages city-dwellers to grow food locally.
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The Challenges of a California "Agrihood"
Agrihoods are popping up all over the U.S., and highlight the importance of creating a strong farm plan at the onset.
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