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'Food as medicine should play a larger role in society's health'

Although Lisette Templin has long understood the benefits of healthy living, she immersed herself into local food production after a family illness highlighted the importance of micronutrients and macronutrients in fresh produce. Lisette, an instructional assistant professor in the Department of Health…

Surna announces a new organic growth strategy

Surna has updated its organic growth strategy. This revised strategy expands the company’s products and services within the indoor cannabis cultivation market and also brings…

CAN (ON): Introducing an off-grid solution to Brampton

A completely self-sustaining greenhouse will provide food to Brampton families in a six-month pilot project this summer. The Off-Grid Organic Food Shed contains its own…

Plans for aquaponics project in Belgian port of Ostend

Columbi Salmon aims to harvest 12,000 tonnes of salmon and 4,000 tonnes of salad leaves a year by 2025, at a site in the Belgian port of Ostend. Kolbjørn Giskeødegård, CFO of…

Study on aeroponics root chamber temperature conditioning design for mini-tuber potato seed cultivation

The aeroponic plant root environment has a significant role in producing high-quality seed tuber potatoes. However, in lowland and tropical regions, the aeroponic system cannot yield high-quality potato seeds because the average environment temperature year-round is high. In a high-temperature…

Affinor Growers to accommodate private placement with cryptocurrency

Affinor is pleased to announce it will be supporting the cryptocurrency markets and accepting payments for licensing and building facilities globally at deposit date prices in…

Hort Americas

Looking for LED grow lights made in the United States?

Walking through Current’s LED light manufacturing facility in Hendersonville. N.C., you’d be surprised to learn that the plant has been in operation since 1955. Inside this pristine facility, you’ll see robotics and digital equipment that you would expect to find in any state-of-the-art manufacturing…

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Cook Islands: PM unveils food security initiative on Mitiaro

During his official visit to Nukuroa last week, Prime Minister Mark Brown opened the Mitiaro Agriculture Hydroponics station, a facility with a 400-plant capacity. Under the Adaptation Funded PEARL Project, hydroponics was installed and implemented for Mitiaro at the request of Mitiaro School and…

"The biggest impact we can have as an industry is to reduce the amount of plastic we put in the system to begin with"

While the horticultural industry has long used plastics for trays and pots, the consumer push towards environmental sustainability has some companies rethinking their business models to reduce their carbon footprint. Ahead of their time, Blackmore Company, a commercial horticultural systems and equipment…

The benefits of stone wool growing media in vertical farming

Vertical farming is on the rise around the world, not least because it supports a number of major societal trends such as local sourcing and sustainability. In this article, Tico van Leeuwen explains why the right growing medium plays an important part in creating the optimal conditions for a strong and…

Vertical farming: the solution for local cultivation

A fast-growing population, increasingly crowded cities and peripheral towns, and growing demand for healthy and fresh food. In order to meet these developments, local…

Webinars on greenhouse and vertical farming production

As technology becomes available, new crops and production methods are expanding opportunities in Northern Ontario. ​Learn from the experts about some of the key things to consider when starting a project, what resources are available to help you on your way, and how municipalities can play a role in…

The common table

"As we know from Darwin, the systems with the most diversity are adaptive to outside challenges"

Franz Drack is head of marketing and sales at &ever, a company making indoor incubators to grow plants for human consumption. He tells The Common Table how, after 20 years in brand marketing in the industry, he came to be convinced that the old mass-production food chain systems need to change radically.…

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Dubai's new Food Tech Valley aims to triple food production

Dubai will soon be home to an integrated modern city that will become a hub for future clean tech-based food and agricultural products and an incubator for researchers, entrepreneurs, startups, and industry experts involved in developing solutions that have the potential to shape the future of the food…

Awty school receives grant for carbon-neutral container farm

Teachers and students alike at The Awty International School are excited about the possibilities a carbon-neutral container farm brings to their campus. Awty received a $135,000 sustainability grant from the Green Mountain Energy Sun Club to implement the container farm that now provides fresh produce to…

Canadian Grocer

“It’s a fabulous idea if you have space and capital”

In some Canadian grocery stores, when consumers ask where their leafy greens come from, the produce manager can just point a finger.  Having vertical farms in-store “gets agriculture closer to city dwellers (and) gives customers the sense the grocer is very much intertwined with the rest of the supply chain,”…

Twenty years of working with data in horticulture

2021 is a special year for LetsGrow.com. The company from Vlaardingen, specialized in collecting, visualizing, and analyzing crop data, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year! The entire year 2021 will therefore be dedicated to this anniversary. Has LetsGrow.com really been working with data in…

Enza Zaden

Enza Zaden expects breeding will play an important role in the future of indoor farming

“In general, at Enza Zaden we see a difference between genetics for greenhouses and vertical farming, especially for high yielding required products,” says Anh Nguyen, Portfolio Manager at Enza Zaden. “It depends on the growing setting of the crops. We think that improved varieties, specifically for…

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Agricultural technology introduced in Japan

Located in Southwestern Japan, Ishigaki Island is famous for its emerald sea and amazing nature. Monsoon has been a hard challenge for agriculture here, but, the island now has delicious fresh vegetables and fruits to enjoy the cool climate. "This is plant factory system for Asian monsoon area, it…

AeroFarms

“We are excited to roll out the new look of our namesake brand"

AeroFarms recently launched its new brand identity for AeroFarms and the rebranding of its Dream Greens® retail brand to AeroFarms. Uniting its mission and activities under one fresh, powerful identify that celebrates its leadership for indoor vertical farming and a brighter future for all. “Now more…

The importance of continuous high dissolved oxygen levels in irrigation water

Oxygen is essential for healthy plant development. Although plants generate oxygen as a by-product during photosynthesis, they require oxygen for energy production during the night. Also, the roots of a plant require oxygen for proper development, and bacteria in the rhizosphere use oxygen to transfer…

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When a shipping container becomes a farm

The Hudson Valley is quite familiar with what it means to be farm-to-table, but what if the farm is also practically right next to the table, even in the more urban and metro areas? Here in the Hudson Valley, a 20 by 20-foot shipping container is being used to grow up to 400 pounds of fresh produce a…