Agritecture Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Associate professor of Horticulture, Neil Mattson, teaches a student in one of Cornell’s on-campus greenhouses. Agritecture Designer ’s urban and vertical farming courses can be a great help to universities looking to incorporate CEA into their curricula without the expense of added staff. Credit: Greenhouse Product News.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 14, 2023

There are many benefits to container farming that make it an attractive alternative to vertical or greenhouse farming. While vertical farms require less space than traditional farms, container farms require even less space. A worker tends to plants in a container farm at Vertical Roots farm.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 22, 2024

Among those benefits, growing food in backyards, community gardens or urban farms can shrink the distance fruits and vegetables have to travel between producers and consumers – what’s known as the “food mile” problem. We found that careful compost management could cut greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 40%. Our study, published Jan.

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Agritecture Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

However, in the face of these limitations, Singapore has and will embrace more urban and vertical farming. This approach maximizes growing conditions, carefully selects seeds, and embraces clean and green cultivation practices, resulting in high-quality, nutrient-rich crops. ComCrop ComCrop team members. courtesy of ComCrop.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

On the back 16 acres of Walla Walla Community College, 30 Red Angus cows stand munching on hairy vetch, ryegrass and other cover crops that were planted to help restore the soil. Those cows are just one part of the closed-loop system the college aims to highlight in its new farm-to-fork program that is rolling out this school year.

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Agritecture Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

A worker replants lettuce in a vertical farm. Two workers inspect plants in a vertical farm. Two people look at the crops in a vertical farm. Agritecture and WayBeyond’s 2021 Global CEA Census found that vertical farms around the world reported using 38.8 Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 18, 2023

Vertical farming and hydroponics are innovative and sustainable agricultural methods that can be used in schools to teach about modern food production and environmental conservation. Written by: Sarah Jordan and Dorothy Braun February 15, 2023 Credit: FarmBox Foods.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2022

CONTENT SOURCED FROM AGFUNDER NEWS Written by: Jennifer Marston Discussions about indoor agriculture — also often referred to as controlled environment agriculture (CEA) — frequently focus on how vertical farms can boost local food production in or near urban settings. There are also steps that can be taken in the near-future (e.g.

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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

These companies join a number of existing members, which include: Ceres Greenhouse Solutions , CropKing, Inc. Greener Crop , INNO-3B , LettUs Grow , Montel , New Growing System , Priva , Urban Crop Solutions , Tower Farms , FarmRaise , Harvest Returns , Mainvest , and Perl Street. Credit: iFarm. ZipGrow ZipGrow Inc.

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Agritecture Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

A worker inspects plants in one of Plenty’s vertical farms. raised to date Vertical farms require significant capital to operate, especially when they’re just starting out. Yet in terms of amount of funding received, farm operators have dominated, receiving 86% of the $7.1B Credit: Why Farm It. At least $7.1B

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Let’s consider a hypothetical example, where the cost of an automated crop harvesting machine decreases by 6% every year due to technology advances, economies of scale, increased competition, or any other number of factors. Just five years ago, in 2018, let’s say the crop harvesting machine cost $1,000,000 for a grower to purchase.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 26, 2023

Through their culinary experiences and the pursuit of quality ingredients, they made a startling realization—there was a scarcity of locally grown produce beyond the realm of traditional crops. Today, Mojan Farms proudly supplies a fresh blend of products to over 100 supermarket branches across Saudi Arabia. Credit: Greener Crop Inc.

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Agritecture Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

Vertical farming for indoor architecture projects Vertical farming is an innovative approach to indoor agriculture using hydroponics and LEDs. Architects can consider incorporating vertical farming systems into their projects, either as standalone structures or as part of a larger building.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Various technologies and methodologies have begun to crop up over the last decade, presenting themselves as “silver bullets” to this food system problem. A greenhouse that has environmental controls to deliver fresh produce year-round might cost USD $40 or more per square foot and require significant energy use.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 16, 2023

Written by: Sarah Jordan May 16, 2023 Saltwater farming, also known as ocean farming or mariculture, is a revolutionary approach to sustainable agriculture that harnesses the power of the ocean to grow crops and produce seafood. Tekmara Tekmara’s unique growing systems harness seawater to nourish crops. Credit: UpLink.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

. #2: Get CapEx estimates in less than a minute with the new Ballpark Estimate Tool Curious what it would cost to build a highly automated vertical farm to grow microgreens, or a low-tech greenhouse to grow tomatoes, but don’t need more details than that?

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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

We’ve reached a point of optimization for the platform and the farms and have multiple years of at-scale farming expertise with our technology. Now, we’re focusing on enabling the next generation of vertical farming infrastructure for other operators. Why are you choosing containers as your integration of choice?

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Agritecture Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2022

As there are numerous suppliers around the world that specialize in automation for indoor farms, this list is not exhaustive but rather meant to illustrate the variety of ways in which suppliers are creatively meeting the needs of their customers. Automation is one way to cut costs and increase efficiency in a vertical farm.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

My previous post was focused on the carbon footprint of crop transportation from the lettuce production regions on the West Coast of the US to East Coast Markets. While many operators claim that their vertical farming systems are the next generation of sustainable agriculture, the carbon footprint of their operations tells another story.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

CONTENT SOURCED FROM CIVIL EATS Written by: Lisa Held January 13, 2023 Inside a 4,000-square-foot greenhouse in west Baltimore at the end of June, untended basil plants were falling over and going to seed. School was out, so the farmers—students at public charter school Green Street Academy —had abandoned their crops for the summer.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

Regenerative Agriculture and Nature-Based Solutions Coffee crops grow alongside other plants in what is known as an Agroforestry approach to farming. More than just an explicit set of production practices, this way of farming is known as “agroecology”, and refers to working with, rather than against, nature.

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Agritecture Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Credit: Vertical Farming Planet. For millions of Africans, decades of reliance on traditional farming techniques and poor policymaking have created vulnerabilities that are only worsened by the impacts of climate change and natural disasters. One of Africa's most prominent and perhaps persistent challenges is food security.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Hydroponic and crop rotation systems first caught Nikita’s attention when he was in graduate school, and as part of his masters thesis, he began looking at how these innovations could be integrated into interior design and architectural projects. Shumeiko’s chandelier is a great example of biophilic design in practice.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

Kiersten Stead, DCVC BIO Kiersten Stead, Managing Partner, DCVC BIO: “The supervillain is misleading, unhelpful, marketing of food as “natural”, “non-GMO”, “clean”, or suggesting “processed foods are bad” , higher GHG emitting farming methods-“organic” “biodynamic”. Crops take time to grow. anyone who eats!)

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The other quarter produces crops from alfalfa and apples to watermelon and wheat. In Iowa, unconventional farming—growing crops aside from industrial grain—ranges from soybeans grown and made into tofu near Iowa City to an environmentally-minded O’Brien County farmer who went organic decades ago.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 23, 2023

The term is meant to capture the nuance between different agricultural methods that are often promoted as competing against each other, [such as vertical farms and greenhouses,] when in fact, they overlap, and various combinations of them can reap greater environmental, economic, and social benefits than any one solution alone.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The popularity of the products has meant that Ebbs has been able to cover the continuing operating costs of the vertical farm without it having an impact on store profits. Since 2013, hydroponically equipped greenhouses on the roof of the store have been producing salad greens and fresh herbs for the store below.

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Agwired

MARCH 5, 2024

The new global brand will strive to represent all segments of crops grown in controlled environments, including greenhouses, hoop houses and high tunnels, operations using shading or netting, vertical farms, container farms, and more.

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Agritecture Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Editor’s Note: Based on the unit economics laid out in this article, saffron has 8-10x revenue potential per given cultivation area compared to leafy greens and vine crops grown in CEA systems. Vertical farms could be utilized as specialized tools to grow high-value crops for medicinal and cosmetic purposes rather than commodity leafy greens.

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Agwired

MARCH 1, 2024

This global brand will represent and unify all the emerging industry segments of crops grown in controlled environments, including greenhouses, hoop houses and high tunnels, operations using shading or netting, vertical farms, container farms, and more. cotton acres.

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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Whether it’s students or professionals with experience in other sectors, people seem to want to know more about how I was able to build a business and brand around urban agriculture, vertical farming, greenhouses, and climate-smart agriculture. Credit: Greenhouse Grower. Share your perspective: Credit: Autogrow.

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