Eden Towers

A vertical farm in every major city in Australia in the next 24 months and then expanding into Asia

“We have just successfully completed our initial capital raise to build the first commercial-scale vertical farm that runs solely on solar power,” says Christian Prokscha, co-founder and CEO at Eden Towers. “Within the next 24 months, we want to expand into every major city of Australia and capture the…

"It's important for kids to know about healthy indoor food"

AppHarvest and the Pike County Extension Office have collaborated to bring a day camp to a local high school and to teach 10 to 18-year-old students about the importance of healthy eating habits, where the food on their plates actually comes from, as well as opportunities for employment and careers in…

Manila Times

Pushing a fresh food revolution in Manila

The agriculture sector continues to seek effective solutions to achieve food security and safety given the country's rising population. But while the government has implemented various initiatives to boost local farming and elevate livelihoods, it can only do so much. This is where private companies like…

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Edmonton non-profit launches initiative to donate produce to local organizations

Edmonton's Better Business Bureau has launched a new initiative aimed at helping local organizations combat food insecurity. The Diversity, Inclusion and You (DI&Y) Farm started as a small garden outside the BBB, but quickly turned into a way to give back to the community. Produce from the garden will…

UrbanKisaan

BASF Venture Capital invests in Indian startup UrbanKisaan

BASF Venture Capital GmbH (BVC) is investing in the Indian startup UrbanKisaan, which specializes in hydroponic cultivation of various types of vegetables, greens, and herbs in tropical urban environments. This is BVC’s first investment in an early-stage business focusing on India. Conceptualized in…

90% recyclable design enables growers to simply upgrade and replace

Light Science Technologies (LST) has launched nurturGROW to the market, its new sustainable grow lighting product range, offering an innovative solution for indoor farming, covering greenhouses, vertical farming, polytunnels, and medicinal plants. Created with four core component parts, the…

Searchable database of FDA/USDA food recalls launched

The Food Industry Counsel, LLC launched its “FIC Recall Reporter™” business tool, a new, searchable database of all FDA and USDA published Class I, Class II and Class III food…

Italy: Introducing FSC paper bags for vertically grown produce

Ready-to-eat salads and basil produced by Planet Farms in the site of Cavenago, just outside Milan have arrived in the fruit and vegetable department of many supermarkets in Lombardy. Founded and managed by Luca Travaglini and Daniele Benatoff, the startup Planet Farms is a large and advanced vertical…

"Lightning in a box"

VitalFluid presents the first results of the first lettuce grown with Vitalfluid Natural Nitrogen. The lettuce is growing in a vertical farm of the Botany in Venlo at the Brightbox. In this hydroponics system, the lettuce is growing on just water with fertilizers. "We compare two cells, the reference cell is set up with common fertilizers…

How IoT and machine learning are automating agriculture

A new generation of farmers is turning to technologies such as the internet of things (IoT) and machine learning to automate agricultural production, alleviating the need to…

"Is vertical farming feasible in the UK?"

Dawsongroup plc is organizing an open day, in Sutton-in-Ashfield, UK. Dawsongroup is a specialist asset rental business operating in several related markets within the European logistics sector.   "Now that we can finally meet in large groups and we do not need masks everywhere, Dawsongroup plc is one of the first…

Green-focused public relations agency adds three clients

Sustainable PR, a public relations agency based in New York's Adirondack region specializing in earned media services for green companies, announces the addition of three new…

AgriFORCE promotes Troy McClellan to president of AgriFORCE Solutions

AgriFORCE announced that it has promoted Troy McClellan to President of the AgriFORCE Solutions division. In his new role, Mr. McClellan will be responsible for leading the…

Potential of ornamental monocot plants in hydroponic systems

Cadmium (Cd) and zinc (Zn) accumulation and uptake ability have been investigated in three ornamental monocot plants (Heliconia psittacorum x H. spathocircinata, Echinodorus…

"Vertical farming innovators benefit from helping keep community's grid balanced"

CPower Energy Management today announced that it will support Scale Microgrid Solutions, a provider of distributed clean energy and microgrid platforms, to deliver energy…

InvertiGro

A flexible vertical farming solution that is affordable and easy to scale

“The beta products were tested by several growers to gather feedback for more improvement, that really addresses the industry’s pain-points,” says Ben Lee, founder and CEO of InvertiGro. During COVID we’ve seen lots of opportunities come up both here in Australia and globally.  The Asia Pacific is especially…

Plant booster and protection hits Spanish market

SIPCO Innovations is pleased to announce the launch of its new product HYSHIELD in Spain this August, in partnership with Hortitec. This European launch comes after the success of HYSHIELD™ in the North American market and the increasing demand for this product in the marketplace. HYSHIELD is derived…

Seasony

Harvesting robot switches to crop monitoring in after-hours, using spare battery

“We always had the vision to alleviate the labor stress,” says Christopher Weis Thomasen, co-founder and CEO of Seasony. Starting in 2018 with a 40m2 farm based in Copenhagen, multiple things were tested as the team wasn’t much home in plant science. Eventually, the heavy labor in the farm was…

Home compostable and recyclable sleeve packaging now on retail shelves

CKF, Inc.’s Earthcycle brand of home compostable and recyclable packaging has expanded its range of sustainable options for its customers to encase their fresh produce by commercializing paper sleeves. New programs with Earthcycle packaging will appear on retail shelves as early as this month.    CKF designed, tested and…

Yanko Design

Mexico: Residential building comes with on-building vertical forest

Living The Noom’s design is everything you want from a building – an unusually beautiful organic structure, covered with a lush tone of green brought about by the vertical forests running along its surface, and running almost entirely on renewable energy. Designed by Mexico-based Sanzpont Arquitectura,…

N.Thing: Sik Mul Sung show room

N.Thing is has opened its first offline showroom, named Sik Mul Sung. The store is located in Gangnam-gu, an area in Seoul, and was opened on 7 July for the public.  Kim Hye-Yeon, CEO of N.Thing, said, “This place was created to communicate the brand identity that illuminates the value and essence of vegetables while communicating…

First farm installed in Russia

“It is unique that our technology can grow produce in the middle of the desert and also in the middle of Russian winters,” says Noa Winston, Marketing director at Vertical Field. "We are very excited to launch this project, enabling Russian consumers to access the freshest produce possible, all year long. Everyone deserves the…