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Cultivating Profits in a Compact Crop

Modern Farmer

Recently, these unassuming spaces are cultivating a new trend in home-grown businesses. Armed with little more than ingenuity and entrepreneurial drive, microgreen growers are transforming the unused corners of their dwellings into profitable farming operations. I love farming…so I hope to [continue] this for a long time.”

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Food Systems 101: How Community Colleges Are Helping Students Connect Farm to Fork

Modern Farmer

Bakersfield College boasts an Edible Gardens Catalog program, Kalamazoo Community College offers Sustainable Food Systems Competencies coursework and Greenfield Community College’s Farm and Food Systems covers mushroom foraging and cultivation, permaculture design, beekeeping, food preservation and more.

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5 Automation Companies to Look Out For

Agritecture Blog

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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Microgreens: Tiny Crops, Big Profits – A Nutritional Powerhouse for Farmers and Winter Menus

ATTRA

Growing Microgreens Now that we’ve covered the differences between microgreens and sprouts, let’s explore how microgreens can be a lucrative addition to your farm income and the innovative methods for producing them. Additional Resources • Microgreens: How to Grow and Use • What is Farm to School?

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Challenges and Innovations Driving the CEA Sector in GCC and MENA

Agritecture Blog

According to CEA operators, some challenges faced by the sector are: Credit: Frontiers in Plant Science The hype surrounding the industry inflates the successes and can gloss over the serious issues that need to be addressed. Everything required for cultivation needs to be imported. Greener Crop Inc. Greener Crop Inc.

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Gaming the System: Modularity as the Key to Scalable Community Agriculture

Agritecture Blog

What’s interesting is that only a few of the team members came from an urban agricultural background, or with knowledge of plant science. Team Lead Manager and Designer, Sarah Hoogenboom , adds that “coming from a technical university posed an additional challenge for our team due to the Challenge being more social impact focused.