Modern Farmer
AUGUST 1, 2024
Backyard farms may need infrastructure for things ranging from drip lines and irrigation systems to hoop houses or greenhouses. Investing in Real Estate as a Means to Farm Jamie and Doug Wickler were engineers, but the 2008 crash made them reconsider career paths.
Modern Farmer
JANUARY 15, 2024
Given the cost of Long Island real estate, the space efficiency is “one of the great benefits of [farming] microgreens,” says DiLillo. Customers now include nearby restaurants, and with business booming, he’s put a 10-by-20-foot greenhouse in the backyard and hopes to upgrade to a larger vertical farming structure in the near future.
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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.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy. I was young, I was in my 20s.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 20, 2024
He showed me the stacks of donated piping that hes going to set up in a greenhouse so he can grow food hydroponically, year-round and free from pests. Taylor was an old family friend who had made a fortune in real estate, but who also had a thousand acres of certified organic land that he was farming almost as a hobby.
Agritecture Blog
JANUARY 11, 2023
Vertical Farms & Greenhouses) Most of us tend to overlook failed businesses, only studying successful businesses to crack the code on what made them successful. We believe that we have nothing to learn from the mistakes of failed businesses when, in truth, there’s a lot of knowledge hidden here.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
MAY 10, 2024
They help farmers and ranchers keep drinking water clean for our urban and rural communities, build soil resilience and limit the impacts of severe drought and flooding, provide healthy habitats for wildlife, mitigate agriculture’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and support farm operations that are productive and sustainable long-term.
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