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

The thought experiment concluded with a rough figure that each lb of moved product incurs about ⅓ of a pound of CO2 in the process. This was compared to the carbon footprint of a typical grid-tied container farm, which produced CO2 in excess of 8lbs of CO2 per lb of product grown.

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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. Heron Farms Heron Farms’s founder, Sam Norton, with vertically farmed sea beans.

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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. However, they have very significant capital costs.

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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

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. Reidy, the founder and CEO of a real estate design company that helped build and raise funds for the Green Street greenhouse.

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Agritecture Blog

APRIL 26, 2023

This is precisely the challenge Wageningen University & Research (WUR) laid out for participants of the third Urban Greenhouse Challenge. Students were asked to design a “comprehensive plan to develop [the] East Capitol Urban Farm in Washington, D.C. Winners of the third Urban Greenhouse Challenge, LettUs Design.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

Furthermore, any change to a farmer’s process costs time, money, and carries a level of risk. The conventional meat industry is one of the leading sources of greenhouse gas emissions. However, the long-term potential and total quantity of carbon storage is still very much up for debate.

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Agritecture Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Vertical farms could be utilized as specialized tools to grow high-value crops for medicinal and cosmetic purposes rather than commodity leafy greens. Comparing the unit economics of saffron production for greenhouses and vertical farms would offer valuable insight for growers and investors looking to enter the space.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

From there, he began consulting with the vertical farming company iFarm and together they have installed around 50 rooftop greenhouses in Moscow to date. He considered symbolism like the sun and moon in the design process, which is incorporated in the spherical forms. One tower allows air to flow through it.

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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

OCTOBER 9, 2024

We are currently in the process of updating our zoning code,” says Wheeler. So, that alone let us know that if we could increase that we’re not only going to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but we’re going to be able to provide more food, healthier food, all of those things all at once.”

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

That trend prompted some Iowans to look at stores and resources closer to home—to local growers, local meat lockers, local dairies and even local greenhouses. Department of Agriculture—have a more positive impact on rural communities, because they tend to buy feed, equipment and other farm inputs from local sources.

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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”. Regulatory approvals are lengthy processes.

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