Organic Foods Nov. 28, 2016 Chris Higgins of Urban Ag News has at organic foods, our feature on urban agriculture. About Green Sense Radio: Founding Farmer Robert Colangelo is also founder and host of the nationally syndicated Green Sense Radio show. Recorded live on the Farm, Green Sense Radio features entrepreneurs, innovators, academics, and policy makers who are making the world a better place. The program is heard coast to coast every week. Send us an email if you’re interested in sponsorship opportunities so your sustainable message can reach our millions of listeners! Click here to listen to the latest Green…
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Local Roots Farms, the LA–based indoor farming company, will now build indoor farming projects across the country to serve its commercial customers. Local Roots Farms, the LA–based indoor farming company respected for its high-quality leafy greens and innovative approach to farming, announced completion of a TerraFarm network, ready for commercial deployment in Q1 2017. After a dramatic increase in demand for their scalable indoor farming solutions, Local Roots will now build indoor farming projects across the country to serve its commercial customers. Despite an increased desire nationwide for locally-sourced produce programs, no indoor farm has yet been able to offer…
East Meets West: Urban Ag News and the Japan Plant Factory Association come together for Nor Cal Networking Event Urban Ag News and the Japan Plant Factory Association in coordination with the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry are pleased to announce a joint networking event with US-based agriculture organizations and operations. The event will take place on Tuesday, November 29, 2016, from 9am to 4pm at the University of California Cooperative Extension’s Agricultural Center Conference Room located at 1432 Abbot Street, Salinas, CA 93901. Entry will be $20.00 and will include morning coffee service and lunch. Please proceed to Eventbrite…
Capital and Funding in Urban Agriculture Nov. 16, 2016 Chris Higgins of Urban Ag News has a look on Growing Green, our feature on urban agriculture. About Green Sense Radio: Founding Farmer Robert Colangelo is also founder and host of the nationally syndicated Green Sense Radio show. Recorded live on the Farm, Green Sense Radio features entrepreneurs, innovators, academics, and policy makers who are making the world a better place. The program is heard coast to coast every week. Send us an email if you’re interested in sponsorship opportunities so your sustainable message can reach our millions of listeners! Click here…
Colorado Aquaponics and Ceres Greenhouse Solutions – two Colorado –based independent businesses – announced that they will partner to create super energy-efficient aquaponic greenhouses. The new greenhouses build off each companies’ years of research and development in their respective industries. Colorado Aquaponics designs high-yield aquaponic systems for small-scale commercial farms. Ceres Greenhouse Solutions creates super energy-efficient greenhouses using passive solar design principles and renewable heating / cooling methods. Now, through a strategic partnership, the companies will deliver integrated designs that pair space-efficient, hybrid aquaponic systems with high-performance year-round greenhouses. The aquaponic greenhouses feature Ceres’ steel frame structures, with an insulated…
The 2017 International Symposium on Growing Media, Soilless Cultivation, and Compost Utilization in Horticulture. The meeting will be held on the campus of Portland State University in scenic Portland, Oregon of the United States from August 20-25, 2017. This meeting attracts scientists and allied industries from around the world to share knowledge in the fields of soilless substrates, crop production, and compost utilization. Topics to be covered will include cultivation of plants in soilless substrates and hydroponics, characterization of soilless substrates and composts, Cannabis substrates, biochar production and utilization, wood fiber production and commercialization, new technologies for compost production and characterization,…
Coventry-based pioneer of hydroponics, HydroGarden, has been recognised for its innovative vertical-farming system, VydroFarm, in the EEF’s Future of Manufacturing Regional Awards 2016. HydroGarden won the ‘Manufacturing Innovation Award’ for the Midlands at the regional celebration lunch held at Staverton Park, Northampton. The firm will now go on to represent the region in the National Awards, the winners of which will be announced at the EEF’s National Gala Dinner on 31st January 2017 at the Grand Connaught Rooms, London. The role of the EEF is to champion manufacturing and engineering in the UK and the EU, and provide tools and…
We invite you to attend the Aglanta Conference on February 19, 2017 at The Georgia Railroad Freight Depot. The Aglanta Conference is a gathering to showcase urban and controlled environment agriculture (CEA) innovation in the City of Atlanta. The City of Atlanta has partnered with Blue Planet Consulting to bring together restaurateurs, grocers, architects, entrepreneurs, technologists, business owners, and urban farmers for this premium networking and knowledge sharing opportunity. Our goal is to foster Atlanta’s growth as a central hub in the nation’s $9 billion a year indoor farming industry. The Aglanta Conference will be an intimate and invaluable environment…
Osmo Systems, Inc., a hydroponic monitoring company based in Berkeley, California, is launching a pre-sale on Kickstarter of their flagship monitor, OsmoBot Hydro. Starting at $450, OsmoBot Hydro continuously monitors eight parameters (pH, EC/TDS, water temperature, water level, air temperature, relative humidity, lux, and PAR), uploading the readings to the cloud. Users can log into a browser-based dashboard to get a system overview, look at historical data of a specific parameter, and set text/email alerts if any parameter goes too high or low. Osmo Systems is also offering advanced sales of their patent-pending dissolved oxygen and ammonia sensor. Relying upon…
In September 2016, Priva opened a new branch office in Victoria, Australia. This is the 18th office of the Dutch family-owned business and will operate as the sales and support office for Australia and New Zealand. With the appointment of Marcus van Heijst as account manager, the company has gained a horticulture expert with over 20 years of local experience. Together with the partners operating on this continent, Priva is investing in additional knowledge and additional service for its local customers. With the opening of this new branch office called Priva Oceania Pty Ltd and the appointment of Marcus van…
The Aponix vertical barrel is a new concept that facilitates setup of high-density growth spaces for soil-less production by taking the NFT concept to the 3rd dimension in a very flexible and stunningly simple way. Especially for urban farming facilities operating on limited space this will be a real game changer. It all starts with a central lego-like 1/6th-piece that can be assembled into ring segments, and ring segments that can be stacked at variable height into a barrel adding more grow spaces with increasing height. Rising from a solid base and sealed with a lid including a sprinkler for…
N.G. Heimos Greenhouses and Millstadt Young Plants announce the 9th annual Poinsettia Trial and Open House November 17, 2016 Registration is avalable by contacting Susie Hines at 618-476-3617 or visit www.millstadtyoungplants.com. We have attached a copy of the program for your information and inclusion in your publications OHP Inc. is a leading supplier of pest control solutions to the production ornamental market. For more information, visit OHP.com. For more: Andy Seckinger Marketing Manager (573) 437-2995 aseckinger@ohp.com
FoodTank is a website that is focused on building a global community for safe, healthy, nourished eaters. They spotlight environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable ways of alleviating hunger, obesity, and poverty and create networks of people, organizations, and content to push for food system change. So we were super excited to see they had listed us in their top nineteen magazines for people who eat, cook, or grow. Thanks FoodTank, we’re honored! Here’s what they had to say, and we hope you’ll go over and check out the whole article: “When it comes to deciding what is for dinner, eaters’ decisions…
Hort Americas is pleased to carry the new and improved 23mm clip from Bato Plastics! With Bato’s company slogan of “Plants, People and Profit” there is no question that professional greenhouse growers focused on vine crops will notice the positive effects. Further, the company has invested in over two years of research and development for the new version of the 23mm Bato Clip with the goal of saving the grower labor costs by speeding up the work process. Key Features Include: A larger locking mechanism providing for easy clip opening/closing The new clip is pre-bent by 20° ensuring faster closure…