In 1972 I moved to rural Irvine from nearby Huntington Beach, best known as Surf City, USA. At the time Irvine was the agricultural heart of Orange County in Southern California. I was 7 years old and a resident of one of the new housing tracts cum planned communities surrounded by farm land. Along with the fledgling University of California, Irvine, I remember the old General Store (with wood-planked floors and a post office) and a drag racing strip near the El Toro Marine base. In many ways Irvine was bucolic and open and a great place to grow up.…
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Cornell Floriculture Field Day Tuesday, August 11, 2015 What’s Trending in Horticulture? Brought to you by Cornell University and New York State Flower Industries Five reasons Cornell Floriculture Field Day is the must-attend event of summer: New! Cornell Alumni and Friends reception. Come to Ithaca, NY an evening early for the 2015 alumni and friends event at the gorgeous Cornell Plantations visitor center. The event features appetizers, New York wine and jazz. Armitage and Konjoian kickoff the morning program. Dr A will talk about some of his favorite annuals, perennials and veggies for the landscape. Peter Konjoian will inspire…
Urban Ag News Issue 10 Click here to download the issue. Urban Ag News is celebrating its 10th issue with a jam-packed magazine filled with practical production information and timely industry news. Every business today uses some type of technology even if it’s just for accounting and product inventory purposes. Urban Ag News celebrated the publishing of its 10th issue with a cover story on “Village Farms uses technology to increase efficiency & produce better crops.” Mike DeGiglio, president and chief executive officer at Village Farms International talks about his company’s approach to technology and how it’s using it to…
OPTIMIZE YOUR HYDROPONICS YIELD New Book, Hydroponics for the Home Grower, Explores the Many Advantages to Traditional Boca Raton, FLA., April 2015— CRC Press / Taylor & Francis Group, a leading global science, technology and medicine (STM) publisher, is pleased to announce the release of the new book, Hydroponics for the Home Grower. Written by Dr. Howard M. Resh, it provides all the information you need to get a home-growing operation up and running. This book combines hydroponic growing with indoor and backyard greenhouse cultures that most books do not present together. “In this book, focus is on the production of vegetable crops…
Indoor Harvest Corp Provides Update on CLARA Vertical Farm Project in Pasadena, Texas Houston, Texas, June 25, 2015 — Indoor Harvest Corp (OTCQB:INQD), through its brand name Indoor Harvest™, is a design build contractor, developer, marketer and direct-seller of commercial grade aeroponic and hydroponic fixtures and supporting systems for use in urban Controlled Environment Agriculture and Building Integrated Agriculture. The Company is pleased to provide an update on the Pasadena, Texas, Community Located Agricultural Research Area (“CLARA”) project MOU and recent developments surrounding the project. On March 31, 2015 the Company announced the signing of a LOI with the City of…
Green Sense Farms to Build 20+ Farms in China Green Sense Farms USA of Portage, Indiana and Star Global Holdings of the People’s Republic of China have formed a partnership to build, own, and operate a network of more than 20 indoor vertical farms in China. The new partnership, Green Sense Farms, Asia Pacific, ltd. will begin building its first farm this year in Shenzhen, a major city in southern China’s Guangdong Province, situated immediately north of Hong Kong. Green Sense has chosen the iD TOWN Art District as the location for the first farm. iD TOWN will redevelop a vacant printing and dyeing factory…
GoodLeaf Farms, Exclusive Canadian Licensee of TruLeaf’s Smart Plant Systems®, Announces First Farm Construction BIBLE HILL, NS, June 2015 – GoodLeaf Community Farms Ltd. (GoodLeaf Farms), a wholly owned subsidiary of TruLeaf Sustainable Agriculture Ltd. (TruLeaf), has awarded a contract to Fowler Construction Services Ltd. (Fowler Construction) to begin construction of its first farm, in Bible Hill, this month. A building in the Agritech Park is being converted into one of North America’s largest indoor multi-level growing facilities. The farm will have the ability to grow hundreds of thousands of pounds of fresh greens and herbs annually without the use of pesticides. “We are extremely excited and thrilled…
DLV GreenQ provides courses for (international) professionals in the greenhouse industry. In their practical research facility called the Improvement Centre new knowledge is generated through innovations on growing concepts, techniques and cultivation. Due to this, their courses and trainings are up-to-date and include the most recent developments in the sector. The cultivation process is their main focus. Topics such as climate, irrigation, energy, CO2, plant physiology, crop health, greenhouse management and crop planning are areas that their company specializes in. Based on this, they have renewed the courses below: “Introduction to Greenhouse Management – Vegetables” In this course the greenhouse management for vegetables is introduced…
Day 3 – The Final Day… As the attendees filled the seats on day 3 one could tell that they were getting tired. Not tired of being at the show and not tired of learning. Much like you see an athlete at the end of intense competition, they were simply getting physically tired. BUT, just like athletes whom really love to compete they were not ready for it to end. In fact it seemed to be the opposite. They just needed a little bit of time to recover and process everything that they had learned and everything they had heard.…
Mattawan Later Elementary School would like to thank “Tour de Fresh” and all their fundraisers for the two wonderful new Salad Bars. Myself and everyone at Mattawan Later Elementary School would like to thank you and all of the Tour de Fresh sponsors and fundraisers for the beautiful new salad bars. When we set up the new salad bars for the first time with fresh salads, mixed greens, fruits and vegetables, the only thing that you could hear the students say were, “WOW” and “Awesome.” Thank you again, David R. Rose, FMP Director of Dining Services Chartwells School Dining Services Mattawan…
Urban Ag News Issue 9 | April 2015 Click here to download the issue. Taking a Lean approach to vertical farming Dan Albert’s first exposure to vertical farming came in 2008 during a design competition for the U.S Green Building Council’s annual conference. “The architecture firm I was working for at the time in Seattle, Wash., sponsored a team of young designers to develop a conceptual architectural design that met the newly developed Living Building Challenge,” Albert said. “The concept of the competition was to design a carbon neutral building that was self-sufficient. The building wouldn’t consume any more energy or water that was found…
North Yorkshire Applied Research provider Stockbridge Technology Centre (STC) has today confirmed it is to raise the roof on one of its glasshouses to create a new, state of the art research facility to examine the effects of different LED lights on long season crops such as tomato. Already leading the way with its innovative closed multi-tier LED4CROPS facility as a route to closed environment or urban farming, the new glasshouse facility will use both top and inter-light LEDS in combination with high pressure sodium lighting together with specially treated diffuse glass. Graham Ward OBE, STC Chief Executive commented on…
Empathy Garden The project Empathy Garden was born as an installation in the Central Pavilion of the Exhibition Centre of Villa Erba on the Lake of Como in occasion of Orticolario (3-5 October 2014) – one of Italy’s leading events on advanced gardening. An Evolution of the project St Horto (MoMA showcased project and A+Award Architizer 2014 winner), Empathy Garden is a hybrid space: a meeting point, a stage for events and promotion of a culture of sustainability as ecosystemic consciousness, a showcase for local farms products and an immersive experience where atmospheric perceptions, the activity of plants and people are…
Twycross Zoo’s elephants were treated to a futuristic free lunch this week courtesy of an innovative new vertical farming project which plans to help revolutionize food production in the UK, and any part of the world that struggles to grow enough food locally because of a lack of space or hostile environment. Project ‘Urban Grow’ resulted in a crop of 2,000 lettuces being grown from seed to full size in just over half the time it usually takes to grow a lettuce using traditional methods. The company and hydroponics experts behind the project, HydroGarden, based in Coventry, has created a…