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.
Read More →
Blog
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.
Read More →
America’s first 100% organic, self-sustainable neighborhood is in Detroit
Could fresh, healthy, affordable food be the future of urban neighborhood development?
Read More →
Gardening Could Help Increase Life-Expectancy
Gardening could be the hobby that helps you live to 100.
Read More →
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.
Read More →
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.
Read More →
8 Things You Need to Know About the 2018 Farm Bill
The 2018 Farm Bill includes wins for greenhouse growers.
Read More →
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.
Read More →
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.
Read More →
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.
Read More →
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.
Read More →
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.
Read More →
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.
Read More →
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.
Read More →
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.
Read More →
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.
Read More →
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.
Read More →
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.
Read More →
7-Eleven turns to indoor farming to produce lettuce for Tokyo-area stores
Seven-Eleven Japan will turn to an indoor farm to grow vegetables for salads and sandwiches sold at its convenience stores, aiming to reduce weather-related supply risks.
Read More →
Vertical Farming Company 'Spread' To Open New, Larger 'Techno Farm' In Japan
In the hills between Kyoto, Osaka and Nara prefectures, surrounded by technology companies and startups, Spread Co. is preparing to open the world’s largest automated leaf-vegetable factory.
Read More →
New Farmer-Friendly Strategy Aims to Reverse Collapse in Bee Populations
The collapse in bee populations can be reversed if countries adopt a new farmer-friendly strategy, the architect of a new masterplan for pollinators will tell the UN biodiversity conference this week.
Read More →
Indoor Farming Startup 'Agricool' Raises Another $28 Million For Their Container Farms
Best known for their aeroponically grown strawberries, Agricool plans to use this money to greatly increase their growing capacity in Paris, Dubai and beyond.
Read More →
Cities in Africa can be Turned into Agricultural Hubs to Alleviate Poverty
African cites should consider the value of vertical farming. Conventional agriculture has driven many energetic, creative and tech-savvy young people away from the rural areas.
Read More →
Farm Facility in Calgary Combines Hydroponics and Aquaculture to Raise Leafy Greens and Fish
The new Deepwater Farms facility in southeast Calgary produces fresh, local food daily using technology that some believe could be the future of agriculture.
Read More →
Farming for the Future: A Q&A with Henry Gordon-Smith
From aeroponic strawberries to hydroponic leafy greens, vertical farming has made recent headlines all across the MENA Region.
Read More →
Urban "Curtains" are Capturing CO2 and Pollutants to Feed Algae
Worldwide, CO2 emissions are reaching a breaking point, and in Ireland, local leaders are devising strategies to halt the trend. Dublin recently tested a smaller intervention: an “urban curtain” that sucks in polluted air and feeds it to algae.
Read More →
A Look At Who—Or What—Will Feed Us In The Future
From robots to hydroponics to soil, the future of food has endless possibilities.
Read More →
The Hidden Potential Of Augmented Reality In Farming
AR may be the latest craze for the visual entertainment industry, but it is also has a very promising future for plant cultivation.
Read More →