Slated for Thursday, November 10 (Conference Day) and Friday, November 11 (Urban Food Systems Field Trip) at California State University, Fullerton, the Inaugural Grow Local OC Conference: The Future of Urban Food Systems presented by Seedstock and the OC Food Access Coalition will focus on the community and economic development potential of urban and local food systems efforts in Orange County – to improve food access and health outcomes, connect people to their food, and create new jobs and business opportunities by employing innovative business models and farming systems of the future. The conference will serve to galvanize the citizens,…
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Join the 443 growers who have successfully graduated from Greenhouse Training Online courses offered by the University of Florida IFAS Extension (UF). This advanced course is designed for experienced growers or technical managers in the US and other countries. The course is offered in English and Spanish. by learning about lime, water quality, plant species, nitrogen form, and root substrate. Convert fertilizer units and formulate a fertilizer from individual salts. Diagnose nutritional problems and take corrective actions. The course runs for 4 weeks, from August 22 to September 16, 2016. It costs $US 200 per participant, and includes a personalized…
Manitowoc, WI – August 3rd, 2016 Dramm is pleased to introduce our new, 50-gallon Ferticart with on-board agitation and aeration. The FC50-A works with either the Dosatron 20 or 40 gallon per minute injectors to provide an agitated or aerated stock solution. Perfect for use with fungicides, plant growth regulators and other agro-chemicals, the Ferticart will keep them all in suspension using our unique agitation bar and 4 gallon per minute recirculation. With a flip of a switch, air is injected into the recirculation stream to provide oxygen to the tank. Nematodes and other biological products can be kept healthy…
Motorleaf, a technology company for indoor farmers, is launching a $750,000 financing campaign on AgFunder, the leading agriculture-focused online investment platform. Motorleaf has built a smart and automated indoor growing hardware and software platform for the controlled environment agriculture (CEA) sector. Motorleaf, a Montreal, Canada based provider of indoor growing hardware and software, is launching a $750,000 convertible equity financing campaign on AgFunder, the leading agriculture-focused online investment platform. The company sells technology solutions for the growing process in the controlled environment agriculture (CEA) sector. Motorleaf has built a smart and automated indoor farming operating system, consisting of hardware devices…
Deadline extended! Wednesday, August 17! INUAg’s 2016 International Leaders in Urban Agriculture Awards Applications are live! They are offering prizes for 1st ($1,000) 2nd ($700) and 3rd ($300) place in three different categories to urban farmers around the world: Educating Communities: Projects that empower youth, students, or community members to grow food in urban settings Food Justice: Projects that use urban agriculture to improve access to fresh food in underserved communities Innovation: Ideas or products that increase the viability of urban farming Interested in applying? Here’s how it works: http://bit.ly/298vNLA Contact Hayley Fager (hayley@inuag.org) if you have any questions.
SAN DIEGO, CA – On Saturday July 30, San Diego Food System Alliance, Slow Food Urban San Diego, International Rescue Committee, and Alchemy San Diego will be hosting an Envision Urban Agriculture Fair from 1:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. to support the local food movement and celebrate the City of San Diego’s implementation of Urban Agriculture Incentive Zones (AB 551). The Fair will include an urban farmers market, heirloom seed swap, healthy cooking demos by chefs, soil corner with composting demos, local kombucha and beer, local organic food makers, workshops including beekeeping, resources for growers by nonprofits and nurseries, small…
Stuppy, Inc. offers aquaponics system to school of choice for Tour de Fresh top fundraiser for salad bars in 2016 WATSONVILLE, Calif. (June 29, 2016) – To encourage even more support for riders in this year’s Tour de Fresh, Kansas City-based Stuppy, Inc. announced that it will award the rider who raises the most money the chance to gift one of its Aqueduct aquaponics systems to the school of their choice. Stuppy, Inc. is a greenhouse design, manufacturing and construction company that offers schools one-semester worth of curriculum and the necessary equipment to house their own self-sustaining horticultural program. Valued…
Click here to download the issue. Urban Ag News Issue 14 | July 2016 Urban Ag News Issue 14 cover story looks at Kimbal Musk’s “community through food” philosophy. Kimbal, who is the younger brother of Elon Musk, talks to Urban Ag News about his restaurants and the Learning Gardens. Kimbal co-founded The Kitchen restaurants to serve food and drink from local farmers, ranchers and suppliers for the sustainable enjoyment of the whole community. Kimbal also helped co-found the Learning Gardens that serve as outdoor classrooms and experiential play-spaces that connect kids to real food and empower them to make…
We’re looking for your thoughts on the state of indoor farming. A number of organizations including the Association for Vertical Farming, Agrilyst, Urban Ag News, Foodshed.io, and Cornell University have teamed up to survey growers from around the country about the current state and future growth of the indoor farming industry. All answers will be anonymized in the results and no information will be published in a way that is identifiable to you. The survey takes approximately 10 minutes to complete. We appreciate your time and your valuable insight. Results will be included in a State of the Industry…
The New York Times gave us a shout-out! Urban Ag News founder Chris Higgins and the online magazine Urban Ag News were cited by The New York Times in an article on vertical farming. The article also included Urban Ag News Issue 9 cover story personality Dan Albert, owner of Farmbox Greens in Seattle, Wash., who was also interviewed for the article. The article by Eilene Zimmerman, published June 29, 2016, titled “Growing Greens in the Spare Room as ‘Vertical Farm’ Start-Ups Flourish” highlights several growers and their stories. The below are Zhanna and Larry Hountz who are growing microgreens right in their own home…
The online course “Nutrient Management (Level 1)/Manejo de Nutrientes (Nivel 1)” offered by University of Florida IFAS Extension (UF) helps growers make better crop management decisions. This course is designed for US and international growers that have practical experience or entry university level, and are in production, technical or sales roles. The course is offered in English and Spanish. Topics covered include common nutrient problems, essential nutrients, fertilizer types and how to interpret a fertilizer label, managing total nutrient level, pH and EC and onsite testing, and growing media. The course runs for 4 weeks, from July 18 to…
A comparison between environmental arguments to stay and leave. It is without doubt that Britain is poised to make one of the most important decisions in its history on June 23. At Commercial Waste Magazine, they care about agriculture and the environment, which is why they have put together a graphic, showing arguments from both sides of the EU debate in regards to what will happen to both farming and the environment if they were to leave. Commercial Waste is a leading online commercial waste and recycling publication, reporting on breaking stories, industry and regulatory news, as well as providing advice and…
NPR June 16, 20164:33 PM ET Heard on All Things Considered By Dan Charles If you’re a home gardener in most of the country, your tomato plants are probably just getting started. It’s not even officially summer. Yet if you go to the grocery store, you’ll probably see tomatoes that come from even farther north: Canada! Our cold-weather neighbor sends us more tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers than we send the other way. Despite all the vegetable fields of California and Florida. When I discovered this fact, I was so shocked that I decided to investigate. …Listen below… For more pictures…
NPR June 3, 20164:58 AM ET Heard on Morning Edition By Dan Charles One of my fondest childhood memories is of eating tomatoes. We picked them in the garden and ate them in sandwiches, sitting on a picnic table under the trees outside our house. That juicy, acidic taste is forever lodged in the pleasure centers of my brain. For anyone with similar memories, supermarket tomatoes are bound to disappoint. Indeed, the classic supermarket tomato — hard, tasteless, sometimes mealy — has inspired countless bitter complaints. Take a closer look at the tomato display in your local grocery store,…