Announcements
"Tweeting Growers"
Top 5 -yesterday
- 'Has CEA lost or won the first major battle?'
- How to reduce indoor farm operating costs
- Vertical Harvest Farms and FundHER World Capital form partnership
- US (NJ): Passaic wants to fill former industrial sites with produce farms, the vertical kind
- Canada: New growing containers will bring the green to Nipissing
Top 5 -last week
Top 5 -last month
- The industry responds to Infarm news
- Zambia: "We produce 5,000 units of lettuce per week, per tunnel, year-round"
- Why a US herb grower has moved 90% of production indoors
- “If we can’t access fertilizer for whatever reason, our system will still work”
- 'Vertical farms must trim costs to achieve profitability'
Farming systems
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"Food shortages need local discussions"
Rising costs across the country and limited supplies of lettuce are shifting and changing what consumers are able to buy. The food shortage, coupled with the impact of inflation and the overall price increase in day-to-day living, doesn’t seem to be making life easier for many Lakeland residents, writes…
Element Hotels partners with LettuceGrow adding towers to properties
Element Hotels, part of Marriott Bonvoy’s extraordinary portfolio of 30 hotel brands, today unveils an innovative collaboration with Lettuce Grow, a nationally recognized leader in hydroponic gardening. Together, they are providing travelers with direct access to free, farm-fresh produce while on the…
Bio-composing: making music with living walls
Casey is a bio-composer in Highland Park, LA. A musician and producer for 15 years, he has been making music with plants for the past two years. A bio-what?If you are not familiar with bio-composing, we weren’t either. So when we saw Casey posted pictures to Instagram of a ZipGrow Farm Wall connected to a…
AmplifiedAg
AmplifiedAg introduces vertical propagation to its indoor agriculture platform
AmplifiedAg announced the official release of its vertical propagation system, AmpVPS. The modular system provides growers across allagricultural specialties, the ability to capitalize upon high-density tech-enabled propagation by insourcing the nursery function for reliable production and increasing the…
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Clemson Extension is educating about agriculture at the South Carolina State Fair
Rides, games, and food aren't all the South Carolina State Fair has to offer. There are plenty of fun learning opportunities as well. The Clemson Extension is set up inside the Ellison Building, teaching fairgoers about agriculture, hydroponic plants, and topography. "We exist throughout the state, and a…
From lettuce to shrimps in container farms, with promising margins
Atarraya (pronounced AH-tuh-RY-uh and Spanish for “to cast a net”) aims to change, modernize and improve the shrimping industry with its proprietary “Shrimpbox” technology. These custom crates can be set up anywhere on the planet, integrating the best elements of biotechnology, software, and hardware.…
