Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

We spoke to Urban Crop Solutions about the key considerations in the industry when investing in an indoor vertical farm, and they offered some guidance on how to approach these situations. Is an indoor vertical farm right for you?

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 22, 2024

Most research on urban agriculture has focused on a single type of urban farming, often high-tech projects, such as aquaponic tanks, rooftop greenhouses or vertical farms. We looked instead at the life cycle emissions of more common low-tech urban agriculture – the kind found in urban backyards, vacant lots and urban farms.

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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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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 9, 2024

full_link learn more Check out Lancet Countdown’s Adaptive Actions for Communities and Organizations Another facet of this plan focuses on the distribution side—getting local food into the local market. This is challenging because farmers can’t sell their products locally if those pathways are not already established.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

Distributing food scraps in each of the pens. I use any type of vegetable or fruit that I find as waste from processing companies or distributors; the only important thing is that there is no rotten fruit that could lead to mold inside the farm. The waste is usually cut into small pieces to be distributed amongst more of the beds.

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Written by: Sarah Jordan , Isabelle Dom , and Ricky Stephens December 12, 2022 If you pay attention to what’s happening in the indoor farming sector, you may have seen the USDA’s recent investments in urban and controlled environment agriculture through its new CEA Center of Excellence. They are a full-service operation.” Credit: AmplifiedAg.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 16, 2023

The important research being done at this facility will hopefully make saltwater farming a viable option for future generations. Heron Farms Heron Farms’s founder, Sam Norton, with vertically farmed sea beans. In Charleston, South Carolina, Heron Farms grows halophytes with seawater. Credit: Vie Magazine.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

After a months-long process of convincing the school board to fund the project, in October 2021 he installed his first Freight Farm 30 feet away from his production kitchen. The hydroponic vertical farm housed in a shipping container costs about $150,000, and Jochner calculated it would take about 7.5

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Agritecture Blog

APRIL 26, 2023

The modularity also applies to the agricultural pieces of the operation, which include hydroponic vertical farms, dutch buckets, aquaponic systems, vertical mushroom production, indoor and outdoor community gardens with raised beds, and more. Visual representation of the gamification process on the game board.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

In contrast, agtech has fewer corporate buyers, hard-to-reach distributed customers, all of them growing commodified food at low value per acre and hardly anything going public, and those that do, regretting it. The lesson for agtech is to target only the truly massive addressable markets to offset these downside issues.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Beyond the economics, those growing, producing and distributing locally grown food believe in what they’re doing, Bruskewitz said. “At The company grows microgreens for sale to local restaurants and set up a food distribution network with local farmers, including those in the nearby Amish community. James Nisly of Kalona, Iowa.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 17, 2024

The soil will be distributed to a community garden project in Churchill. In 2018, Kuujjuaq, Nunavik, an Inuit community in northern Quebec, invested in a hydroponic farm in a shipping container. But Chapman hopes to expand their reach further into the community, which would, in turn, divert food waste from the landfill.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Retail distribution systems are designed to deliver products in as few trips as possible. 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.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

Recent legislative efforts in the US are trying to halt these deals; Image sourced from WoodRuff Food processing and distribution is becoming increasingly concentrated too. School Districts are getting in on the game too, utilizing $400m from the USDA to prioritize local buying habits, and expand popular Farm-to-School programs.

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