Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Editor’s Note: One main draw of Controlled Environment Agriculture, or CEA, is the ability to grow produce closer to urban centers where it will be consumed, thus shortening the supply chain for inhabitants of cities globally. Rural greenhouses can produce a wider selection of local fresh vegetables than urban vertical farms.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Armed with little more than ingenuity and entrepreneurial drive, microgreen growers are transforming the unused corners of their dwellings into profitable farming operations. After finishing college seven years ago, the “video gam- playing, beer-drinking kid” dusted off a section of his parents’ Long Island cellar to launch his micro farm.

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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. Plasma Activated Water has a multitude of benefits and applications within the CEA space which can maximize efficiency and hygiene for hydroponic farms. Two people look at the crops in a vertical farm.

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Agritecture Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Credit: Farm One. Written by: Dorothy Braun April 20, 2023 The neighborhood farm is back! Agritecture spoke with Rob Laing , founder and CRO of Farm.One, to learn more about what this reopening means for the farm and the surrounding community. Credit: Farm One. “I Credit: Farm One. Credit: Farm One.

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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In 2015, I started exploring different types of indoor farming, and it just clicked. I understood the potential of indoor farming and the positive impact that it could have for our local food systems. AmplifiedAg CEO Don Taylor in an indoor farm growing butter lettuce.

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Agritecture Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2022

We used to grow food where we lived; over time, we moved agriculture away from our cities and used supply chains to import it. Farms drive our world and need to transform,” he said. Every crisis and market trend, from weather-related disasters to global recession, makes farm tech inevitable.”

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Anyone familiar with the CEA industry is aware of the critical importance of energy in running an indoor vertical farm. Without consistent and reliable power, these farms can endure lower yields or even suffer a loss of crops, which translates to a loss of revenue. Could Microgrids be the Solution?

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

Mattia Marinello, farm owner and operator, collects snails for harvest. While at the conference, I was invited to visit a local snail farm. Having attempted (mostly unsuccessfully) to raise snails previously in California, I was very interested in visiting this farm. Snails live in pens that measure 3m x 40m, as shown here.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Greenhouses and vertical farms, widely known as trusted methods of year-round agricultural production, seem to be context-agnostic solutions to agri-food supply chain disruptions, desertification, and other climate change-related problems. Jack’s Solar Farm – Photo by Werner Slocum: NREL Why do they do this?

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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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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 9, 2024

“My concern is that climate change is impacting agriculture and could well disrupt supply chains,” wrote Modern Farmer reader Taera Shuldberg. You can also zone for urban agriculture, because in some cities, it’s a little bit hard with the zoning—it’s not really made for someone to do farming in the middle of the city.”

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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”. Heroes are People who do the work on farms.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

With painful disruptions caused by fluctuating demand, shipping bottlenecks, and labor shortages, supply chains are becoming a new topic of conversation at dinner tables across the country. Everything from the number of farms, to the types of crops, to how they get to market, have all become more consolidated in recent decades.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Photo courtesy of Voir Vert Fresh from the parking lot Despite these drawbacks, across North America, a handful of grocery stores are pioneering a new way of growing that puts hyper-local food at the forefront of the supply chain. During the growing season, we don’t have a problem procuring fresh greens from local farms,” says Ebbs.

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