Have you registered for this event yet? You should! INVITATION TO JOIN US AT INDOOR AG-CON NEW YORK We wanted to encourage you to join us at an upcoming event; Indoor Ag-Con New York. Indoor Ag-Con hosts events about indoor agriculture; growing produce and raising fish using hydroponic, aquaponic and aeroponic techniques in greenhouses, warehouses and containers, and will be hosting its first New York event on October 15, 2015 . Now in its fourth year, Indoor Ag-Con’s two day annual event is hosted in Las Vegas in the spring, and has welcomed participants from as far afield as Sweden,…
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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. On March 31, 2015 the Company announced the signing of a LOI with the City of Pasadena, Texas to fund the establishment and provisioning of an indoor agricultural facility (vertical farm) to be located in…
From One of Our Sponsors Hort Americas, a leading North American wholesale horticulture supplier, has teamed up with SparkFund to offer controlled environment agriculture customers financing plans for their energy efficient grow lights. The SparkFund lease covers the upfront costs of efficiency projects and customers can select the terms of the leases to help meet the cash flow needs of their businesses. “By offering financing to our customers, we can help more growers access our efficient LED grow lights,” said Chris Higgins, Co-Founder and President of Hort Americas. “We are excited to grow our partnership with SparkFund and help more…
There is almost nothing more appealing than the smell of freshly picked basil. The aroma of a freshly cut small bunch can fill a room. Some of the great eating experiences of summer include the taste of fresh basil. It can be combined with fresh mozzarella on a sliced tomato just picked from the garden. Fresh basil can also be used to make a delicious pesto sauce. Fortunately, thanks to greenhouses and controlled environment agriculture (CEA), basil can be grown year round. Basil is appealing to growers because of its consistent demand from consumers. Growers who produce basil during colder…
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.…
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…