Robotics Hit US Indoor Farming & Hydroponics
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What Is Hydroponic Farming?
Simply put, hydroponic farming is high-volume food production grown without any dirt or conventional fertilizers involved. It allows growing food anywhere throughout the year, regardless of ground soil conditions, water limitations, and climate. It offers increased food security, uses less water and plant nutrient inputs than traditional agriculture, allows pesticide-free farming, and makes growing some […]
Scotland Enters Vertical Farming with Total Automation
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Kimbal Musk: Urban Farm Accelorator
The launch of Square Roots, an urban farm incubator project, was announced by Kimbal Musk on Tuesday. His latest goal? To help thousands of new urban farm startups come to life across the U.S. The mission? Teaching young entrepreneurs indoor farming and the local food business through hands-on education. Naturally, accomplishing this means you have to start an urban farm. […]
Hydroponic Farming Hits the Arctic
While hydroponic farming may already be well established north of the Arctic Circle in some countries, it’s a pretty novel thing in Alaska. Most surprising, given that over 90% of the food in Alaska is transported thousands of miles from California and Mexico, which means truly fresh fruits and vegetables don’t exist there once the […]
Award-Winning Vertical Farming System
It’s not just the fresher, less traveled food that makes urban agriculture so important to people around the world today. We need greater sustainability practices in place too, which led to Sky Greens in Singapore walking away with the INDEX: Award 2015 in Denmark a couple weeks ago. Their self-powered hydroponic vertical farming system trumped […]