Hydroponic Urban Ag Startup Seeks to Create Scalable, Sustainable and...
Cityblooms is a food revolution waiting to happen. The Santa Cruz startup is now developing a comprehensive system to grow hydroponic microgreens on a commercial scale, but it came from humble...
View ArticleVegetables in the Sky; Startup to Bring Year-Round Hydroponic Production to...
Although the Swartz family has been farming for three generations, Joe Swartz’s Sky Vegetables in Amherst is very different from the typical farm of his father and grandfather. When his grandparents,...
View ArticleAbandoned Lot Turned Urban Farm in Philadelphia Brings Fresh Food to Where...
Fifteen years ago, before the modern urban agriculture movement really got going, Mary Seton Corboy and Tom Sereduk found themselves in the Kensington area of Philadelphia, starting a farm in the...
View ArticleA Head of Lettuce from 1,000 Miles Away, or a Sack of Greens from the...
In a perfect world of competitive business, twenty-first century startups have some high hurdles to overcome: the ideal is to offer a product that is beneficial for the consumer, leaves a negligible...
View ArticleIn Wake of Recession, Two Food Evangelists in Search of Sustainable Business...
When Gina Cavaliero and Tonya Penick watched their contracting firm collapse, they had a personal and professional epiphany that would change the course of their lives and work. “It was just awful. We...
View ArticleTo Reduce Dependence on California-grown Produce, Washington State Couple...
Stewart and Cheryl Fry, owners of C&S Hydro-Huts, have a vision. The two hydroponic farmers, from Otis Orchards, Wash., want to reduce those truckloads of California-grown lettuce, peppers and...
View ArticleWith 90% of its Crop Pre-sold and a Land Lease Rate of $1 Per Year, a...
If you’ve ever ventured west into the beautiful rolling hills and breathtaking rock formations of windy Wyoming you may note an absence of green fields. Home of wandering elk herds, wild mustangs and...
View ArticleStartup Seeks to Shape Future of Urban Agriculture with Fish, Automation and...
Two young mechanical engineers, Brian Falther, 24, a 2010 graduate of Kettering University (Flint, Mich.) and Austin Lawrence, 21, a senior at Kettering University, have teamed up to bring small...
View ArticleOregon Startup Links Local Farms to Local Folks with Competitively Priced...
Shopping at Farmers Markets or participating in the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) system of picking up weekly produce boxes from a local farm are both great ways to enjoy locally grown produce....
View ArticleStartup Seeks to Use Open Source Monitoring Tech to Improve Efficiency on...
Growing shiitake oyster mushrooms for Michael Alt’s family’s restaurant proved to be a tricky operation in snowfall manic Syracuse, NY. Maintaining ideal conditions required a complicated set-up of...
View ArticleRather than ‘Figure Out More Ways to Blow People Up’, Former NASA Engineer...
When NASA ended its space shuttle program in 2011, a lot of the engineers and systems technology staff ended up heading to defense industry contracting firms. But Douglas Mallette, founder and CEO of...
View ArticleWater Conservation, Passion for Great Food and Sustainability Fuel Family’s...
A simple passion for great tasting food and sustainability fueled the founding of Amelia’s Farm, a hydroponic farm based in Bells, Texas. Amelia Von Kennel, co-founder and executive vice president, and...
View ArticleTo Help Small Farmers Meet City’s Demand, Online Startup Directly Connects...
Farmers Web is an 18-month-old start-up that aims to link local farms with local buyers through a wholesale “management tool,” and vibrant online marketplace that allows you to “shop and sell local...
View ArticleStartup Seeks to Build Better Farmers Market By Providing Year Round Online...
What if you had access to a fresh farmers market seven days a week, knew exactly what they would be offering so that you can plan your meals, were able to contact your preferred vendors with a shopping...
View ArticleWaste-based Startup Uses Insect Alchemy to Transform Soldier Fly into...
In 2007, Dan Merchant of Vancouver, British Columbia went fishing with David Suzuki, Canada’s most famous sustainability advocate, and had a life-changing conversation about fish food. Aquaculture...
View ArticleIn Search for Sustainable Biofuel Feed Solution, Startup Focuses on Ancient...
To meet world food demand in the future, agriculture productivity must increase by a factor of 1-2% per year, more than doubling total output by 2050, according to the Global Harvest Initiative’s 2012...
View ArticleStartup Co. Targets Small Indoor Farmers; Aims to Make Hydroponic Control...
Sanjay Rajpoot, founder of hydroponic nutrient control system firm Sustainable Microfarms, was an early starter when it came to sustainable agriculture. Fascinated by Singaporean rooftop gardens at an...
View ArticleStartup Utilizes Social Media to Fight Food Waste, Feed the Hungry and...
It all started with a Facebook post. Nick Papadopoulos was working as acting general manager of Bloomfield Farms, his wife’s parents’ 45-acre organic vegetable farm located in Northern California. One...
View ArticleApps for Ag Hackathon Seeks a Technological “Steel Plow” to Revolutionize...
The collision of technology and agriculture might be just what the world needs to respond to an impending food crisis if global food production does not double by 2050, according to Robert Tse, State...
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