vertical farming Articles, Stories & News

What is Vertical Farming?

10/10/17, 06:54 AM | Monitoring & Growing, Processing & Supply Chain | AgTech, Indoor Farming, vertical farming | Len Calderone - Contributing Author

In Singapore, a country with a population of more than 5.5 million on the main island that is just 26 miles wide and 14 miles long, there is a four-story rotating greenhouse, it produces 1 ton of greens every day. Normally, Singapore imports 93% of its produce.

World's First Solar Powered Indoor Vertical Farm Comes To Philadelphia

10/06/17, 05:47 AM | Monitoring & Growing, Processing & Supply Chain | solar, vertical farming

Steve Hanley for CleanTechnica: It plans to grow the equivalent of 660 outdoor acres worth of crops in less than 100,000 sq feet. "The panels are already installed and turned on, now were building out the farm.

Vertical Farming Looks to Go Mainstream

10/02/17, 05:48 AM | Monitoring & Growing, Processing & Supply Chain | Tradeshows and Conferences, vertical farming

Richard Jones for Greenhouse Grower: The summit was a mix of education, advocacy, and policy discussion about urban agriculture - vertical farming in particular - targeted at finding ways to broaden its adoption in cities around the country and around the world.

Are vegetable flats the future?

09/27/17, 05:46 AM | Monitoring & Growing, Precision Farming | vertical farming

Fresh Plaza: Vertical cultivation systems are seen as the solution increasingly often. By working in a controlled environment and on multiple layers, an enormous amount of food can be produced on a small surface.

Sustainable Indoor Vertical Farming in Action

09/26/17, 08:36 AM | Monitoring & Growing | Hydroponics, vertical farming

Using natural waste products from one system as the primary input of another has substantial economic advantages and represents a far more environmentally sustainable and resource conservative approach to urban food production.

Antarctica Is Getting a Farm That Can Grow Produce Even When It's -100 Degrees Fahrenheit Outside

09/25/17, 05:44 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Monitoring & Growing | AgTech, vertical farming

Futurism: The farm will feature a year-round greenhouse that can grow food for researchers at the Neumayer III polar station on the Ekstrom Ice Shelf.

Ikea is bringing a pop-up vertical farm to London

09/22/17, 05:37 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Monitoring & Growing | vertical farming

Lisa Bowman for Metro.co.uk: Researchers from the SPACE10 lab at the Lokal pop-up want to show the general public that delicious, fresh food can be grown right in your home, using a hydroponics farming system.

Vertical Farms May Be the Future of Your Food

09/11/17, 05:33 AM | Precision Farming, Processing & Supply Chain | vertical farming

The Merkle: Plenty Inc will utilize vertical farms to make it feasible to have large growing operations close to consumers. The farms themselves will be state of the art and capable of producing large amounts of food.

Why agtech grows in Brooklyn

09/04/17, 02:14 PM | Monitoring & Growing, Processing & Supply Chain | AgTech, AgTech Accelerators, vertical farming

Nina Sparling for Technical.ly Brooklyn: The Brooklyn landscape is going green - and not just on rooftop farms. Of late, the borough has seen an explosion of innovation about how to grow fresh, healthy food in the heart of the city.

Agtech companies link to bring full automation to indoor farms

08/14/17, 05:30 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Monitoring & Growing | Big Data, vertical farming

Brooklyn-based Agrilyst and Montreal-based Motorleaf have chosen to openly exchange data.

Making vertical farming viable

08/09/17, 06:16 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Monitoring & Growing | AgTech, vertical farming

Control Engineering UK looks at the role that machine control has played in helping make vertical farming a commercially viable option.

Shenandoah Growers Deploying Indoor Farming Nationwide

07/13/17, 05:48 AM | Monitoring & Growing, Processing & Supply Chain | AgTech, vertical farming

Leading national organic culinary herb grower and marketer set to transform the distribution of highly perishable produce

These kale farming robots in Pittsburgh don't need soil or even much water

07/11/17, 06:02 AM | Monitoring & Growing, Processing & Supply Chain | vertical farming

Aaron Aupperlee for TribLive: Robots could grow your next salad inside an old steel mill on Pittsburgh's South Side.

Plenty acquires Bright Agrotech

06/30/17, 10:38 AM | Indoor & Vertical Farming, Monitoring & Growing | vertical farming

The acquisition aims to allow Plenty build field-scale indoor farms around the world.

Infarm wants to put a farm in every grocery store

06/28/17, 06:16 AM | Monitoring & Growing, Processing & Supply Chain | Hydroponics, vertical farming

Steve O'Hear for TechCrunch: Growing out from the centre, the basil is at ascending stages of its life, with the most outer positioned leaves ready for you, the customer, to harvest.

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