Agrivoltaics Make The Leap From Rural To Urban Farming
Detroit’s Solar Neighborhoods initiative deploys agrivoltaics to replace blighted properties with solar energy, urban farms, and biodiverdity restoration.
urban farming
This San Francisco Housing Development Comes With Its Own Farm
Some things just scream “San Francisco.” The Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, cable cars — they’re all associated with San Francisco as the city is with them, but a new housing development from Agrihood may take the “peak California” crown by including something you might not expect in its plans: its … [continued]
Square Roots & Gordon Food Service Announce First Urban Farm Campus Location
The container farm campus is expected to be operational in the fall of 2019.
Shaping The Future Of Food
A tech company put together an hexagonal indoor farm that can grow more food in less space with 90% less water.
Growing Without Farming
Our modular farms plug into existing infrastructure and are easily deployed into a given space, often directly at the point of sale. The individual farms are connected to each other through our central farming platform, creating a first of its kind self-optimizing farming network. Our unique cognitive platform orchestrates the network and leverages a sophisticated mesh of sensors and IoT technologies to improve itself over time. Each individual farm acts as a data pipeline, sending information on plant growth to our platform allowing it to learn, adjust, and optimize.
Bringing Nature Into Companies & Corporate Campuses With Farmscape
So many of us suffer from nature deficit: we spend lots of time indoors, staring at screens both large and small. This is tiring to our brains and our eyeballs, and keeps us from enjoying a connection with trees, plants, and open space.
With the understanding that taking a break in nature is good for our brains and our productivity, an innovative California-based company called Farmscape is working to bring greenery and farming into corporate and urban landscapes.
World’s First Solar Powered Indoor Vertical Farm Comes To Philadelphia
Metropolis Farms is building the world’s first solar powered indoor vertical garden in Philadelphia. It expects to grow as much food in 100,000 square feet as a convention 600 acre farm.
Square Roots Raises $5.4 Million To Grow Its Urban Farming Incubator
Square Roots is establishing itself as a leading light in urban agriculture. The Brooklyn-based startup has just raised $5.4 million in seed funding that will be used to empower food entrepreneurs and increase urban farming across the US.
The Aqualibrium Garden — The Future of Food, For Any Apartment, House, Or Room
Pure, fresh food increases a sense of pleasure and well-being. Enzymes and proteins from food are one thing that no human can do without. They are essential to an active, purposeful daily life. Food, vital food, is a comfort that nothing can replace. In modern times, unfortunately, many people struggle … [continued]
Voilà! US Algae Company Turns Sewage Into Biofuel, In France
Right around this time last summer we took note of a new US-France urban algae farming collaboration that combines algae biofuel production with wastewater treatment. Considering all the political poop that certain US legislators have lobbed in the direction of France over the past ten years or so, that’s a … [continued]
