Agritecture Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Operators planning new farms in hurricane-prone areas should consult local architects and engineers about the best ways to protect their site. Knowing this ahead of time will help with both the design and budget planning process. Credit: Grupo Vesan. In commercial applications, HVAC units are commonly installed on rooftops.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 18, 2023

Vertical farming and hydroponics are innovative and sustainable agricultural methods that can be used in schools to teach about modern food production and environmental conservation. The process can be streamlined with these steps: Credit: Denver Public Schools. Credit: amNewYork.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 29, 2023

Written by: Sarah Jordan March 29, 2023 In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s capital city, Khalid Shokair and his family have established Bather Smart Farm , a 2500-square-meter facility that grows microgreens, edible flowers, salad greens, and herbs. Chefs in the area love Bather Smart Farm’s produce because it is fresher than imported goods.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

LED lighting is an important aspect of indoor farming operations, but it consumes energy, contributing to a farm’s overall costs. The 2021 Global CEA Census Report revealed that at least 38% of greenhouses and vertical farms don't track their energy use. kWh per kg, which represents 54% less energy than a typical farm.

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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

APRIL 20, 2023

Credit: Farm One. “I I thought, wouldn’t it be great to use this new technology of vertical farming to bring these kinds of interesting products to the market and grow them locally? Vertical farming allows you to grow right next to where people consume the product, and allows you to grow very fresh crops year round.

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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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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

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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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

iFarm's offering includes iFarm Growtune, a SaaS platform to manage vertical farms; vertical farm equipment and iFarm Cropper, a standalone module for growing greens. is a Canadian based international leader in indoor, vertical farming technology. Credit: HRVST Limited. ZipGrow ZipGrow Inc. ZipGrow Inc.

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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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Far Eastern Agriculture

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

With the help of the Agri-Tech Centres, this groundbreaking technology is currently under trial, which if successful could allow Debye to undertake small-scale pilot projects on a farm setting within three years, subject to funding. For more information, visit: [link] and www.agritechcentres.com

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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. Vertical farms too could cost upwards of $350 per square foot, and require even more energy.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 10, 2023

From there, Shokair and the team began building models of potential farm designs. Since he lives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where the majority of food is imported, water is valuable, and leafy greens do not travel well, we determined a vertical farm growing greens would be best.

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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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ATTRA

OCTOBER 1, 2024

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. This temperature range slows down the degradation process and helps the greens retain their crispness and color.

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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

APRIL 26, 2023

LettUs Design’s chosen modules for the gamification process with communities. With gamification at its core, aspects like food production, food processing, community involvement, social life and leisure, education, and employment are broken down into 6x6 meter modules. Graphic sourced from LettUs Design.

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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

MARCH 23, 2023

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. Distributing food scraps in each of the pens.

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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. Including both greenhouses and indoor vertical farms, these types of operations can maximize yield using drastically less water, less land, and no pesticides, all while creating good-paying, year-round farming jobs.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 9, 2024

We are currently in the process of updating our zoning code,” says Wheeler. 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.” Palm Springs doesn’t grow or produce its own food.

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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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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A diverse landscape For this project, A Bigger Conversation has used the term ‘agroecology’ to encompass a diverse landscape of different yet related farming approaches. Some participants acknowledged that in urban settings, hydroponically grown produce might be preferable to processed food.

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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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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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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

JULY 6, 2023

At the time, Richmond, where Babylon Micro-Farms is currently located, reported a 15.8% Babylon Micro-Farms lowers the barrier of entry into vertical farming and the CEA industry by helping clients remotely operate their facilities and troubleshoot with expert growers as needed. Credit: VP Kamala Harris.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Obviously, the big row crops are a driver: the processing facilities for sweet corn, peas, green beans. And now, because of technology that can be brought into this world of indoor farming, you have fresh produce that can be grown 12 months out of the year.” He describes it as “indoor vertical farming.”

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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. The largest agribusiness suppliers are continuing to consolidate through mergers and acquisitions, reducing competition and choices for farmers.

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