Announcements
"Tweeting Growers"
Top 5 -yesterday
- AUS: Vertical farm seeks $10 million as it breaks new ground in Queensland
- $5 million investment added to the portfolio:
- "Light is the most important growth factor in a vertical farm"
- “We want to make technology as simple, efficient and convenient as possible”
- Enabling the vertical farming sector to grow
Top 5 -last week
- "Cheap sensors for smarter farmers" help farmers make better decisions
- Modernization as a service, for new builds and retrofits alike
- "There are four drivers needed for successful ROI"
- Vertically cultivated mushrooms are blossoming in Brussels’ cellars
- US (SC): Installing cultivation systems for high-tech indoor farm
Top 5 -last month
- Study on environmental and cultivation factors affecting root systems in soilless grown plants
- Sweden: Instead of supplying microgreens, supplying self-made cultivation systems
- "Cheap sensors for smarter farmers" help farmers make better decisions
- What is the difference between hydroponics, aquaponics and aeroponics?
- Transition from hydroponics to gelponics
This "glass tree" vertical farm could solve urban food deserts
Creative agency Framlab is tackling the problem of 'urban food deserts' with their conceptual Glasir project. This group of modular vertical farms provides low-income neighborhoods with access to fresh produce. The greenhouse-like cubes were designed to be built anywhere in the city where there is room…
Credit: Dan Kluens
Grow It York brings vertical farming to community container park
The University of York has teamed up with LettUs Grow, an indoor farming technology provider from Bristol, and Spark: York to create “Grow It York”: a vertical, community farm at the heart of a vibrant container park in Piccadilly, York. The container park, called Spark: York, is a Community Interest…
Bjarke Ingels Group and Bucharest Studio
Plans for $400-billion new city in the American desert unveiled
The cleanliness of Tokyo, the diversity of New York and the social services of Stockholm: Billionaire Marc Lore has outlined his vision for a 5-million-person "new city in America" and appointed a world-famous architect to design it. Now, he just needs somewhere to build it -- and $400 billion in…
Can cucumbers and tomatoes grow in vertical farms?
Can cucumbers and tomatoes grow in vertical farms? A key consideration is the amount of space that cucumbers and tomatoes can take up. As they grow on vines, the vertical height could mean that they take up more space than other types of plants. For that reason, iFarm wanted to find a way to grow…
Manila Standard
Growing strawberries in hot climates with aeroponicsPhilippines: "We reduced the cost of cooling by just cooling the plant roots”
Strawberry production is now made possible in the lowlands and hot areas of the Philippines through the vertical aeroponic system and root zone cooling technology, innovated by a biosystems engineer from Muñoz, Nueva Ecija. “The root zone cooling or the group heat exchanger system is being used for cooling…
