Up, Up, & Away: Vertical Farms, The Pros & Cons
The sight of flowers and vegetables spilling down the side of a building holds great allure. But, other than aesthetics, are vertical farms really a viable option for mass food production?
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Indoor Vertical Farming Startup Bowery Raises $300 Million In Series C Round
The indoor vertical farming startup Bowery Farming has raised $300 million in a Series C funding round. This brings the total funding that the New York-based company has raised to date up to $472 million and gives the company a valuation of $2.3 billion. The funding round was led by … [continued]
Can Indoor Farming Solve Our Agriculture Problems?
An interview with Bowery CEO and co-founder Irving Fain.
Solar Microgrid To Power Indoor Farm All Year Round
A New Jersey indoor farm will use a solar microgrid to grow high-quality produce independent from the grid and natural seasons.
Amazon & The Future Of Food
A few months ago, Amazon (AMZN) bought Whole Foods at a whopping $13.4 billion, with a promise to bring cheap, organic, nutritious, low carbon*, and pesticide-free food to the masses. Soon after the acquisition, Whole Foods cut prices by as much as 43%, bringing prices of organic food at or below non-organic food.
Berlin Startup Infarm Aims To Put Tiny Vertical Farms In Grocery Stores
The future of fresh local produce could include distributed farming, with more foods being grown in smaller systems right near the point of sale, instead of everything being shipped in from larger growing operations.
Vertical Farming Is Taking Off: Europe’s First Commercial Vertical Farm Under Construction In The Netherlands
Vertical Fresh Farms has been farming commercially on a small scale in Buffalo, New York for a few years, but a larger scale commercial facility is currently under construction in the Netherlands. Fruit and vegetables supplier Staay Food Group is erecting a 900 square meter vertical farm, which will have a total cultivation area of 3000 square meters.
Ambient Water To Install “Ambient Water 400” at Applied Cryo
As a field test for future applications in the oil and gas industry, Ambient Water (formerly AWG International) announced today that it will install an Ambient Water 400 atmospheric water generator at Applied Cryo Technologies’ Houston facility. Scalable and modular, the patented Ambient Water system cost-effectively extracts water from humidity … [continued]
Meet The New Pink Face Of Vertical LED Farming
Indoor vertical farms are on the rise, thanks partly to new high efficiency LED growing lights that cut electricity costs to the bone. LED farming translates into new opportunities for siting year-round hyperlocal, organic farm-to-table operations, especially if you throw in an assist from wind or solar energy. Global lighting … [continued]
Vertical, Hydroponic Farming the Future of Farming?
This interesting piece below is on a topic we don’t cover much here on CleanTechnica — farming (in particular, vertical and hydroponic farming) — but it seems like a good fit once in awhile, and this is a great piece by Herman Trabish that a reader recommended, so figured … [continued]
