Touch the Soil News #1955 (Photo – Lettuce – Public Domain, USDA) Plenty Vertical Farming Company just opened a new facility in Compton, California. The company boasts the facility is capable of growing 4.6 million pounds of greens a year on a single city block. The city of Compton is in Los Angeles County, with…
Touch the Soil News #1916 (Feature Photo – Vertical Farming – CCA SA 4.0 International, ifarm.fi) Agritecture Consulting and News Portal bring the story of a company called Montel. The company’s mission is to provide storage or growing racks that take up a minimum of space and are technologically efficient. You can read the story…
Touch the Soil News #1853 (Feature Photo – Hydroponics – CCA SA 4.0 International) Consulting and News firm AgriTecture, recently published a Blog worth reading, among many “worth reading” blogs. The story not only covers challenges, but major failures and why. This heads-up editorial, could save an enterprise a lot of problems and headaches. You…
Positive Future News #942 (Feature Photo – Vertical Farm – CCA SA 4.0 International) Despite geometrically higher costs, vertical growing structures in buildings are still a vision for many. Ariang News, of South Korea, brings us the story of how some buildings are already retrofitted for growing food. The claim by these vertical farmers is…
Touch the Soil News #1734 (Feature Photo – Nordic Harvest Vertical Farm – Courtesy of Nordic Harvest https://www.nordicharvest.com/saadangoervi/vertikalfarm) Called Nordic Harvest, the company is putting the finishing touches on a 14-story building with a footprint of over 75,000 square feet (1.75 acres). The facility is projected to produce over 1,000 tons of greens every year…
Touch the Soil News #1715 (Feature Photo – Vertical Farming – CCA 2.0 Generic, Satoshi Kinokuni) MyFinTech News Portal brings us more of the story on Vertical Farming. Is there really an opportunity in high cost controlled environment farming? Since 2018, about $1.8 billion in venture capital has flowed into vertical farming start-ups. You can…
Touch the Soil News #1712 (Feature Photo – Leafy Greens – By Libby Kokes – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=89034266) Agritecture news portal brings the story of Kalera – one of several fast growing vertical farming companies. Kalera focuses on producing leafy greens in ultra-modern vertical facilities that allow for the production and delivery…
Positive Future #791 (Feature photo – Vertical Harvest Concept – courtesy of Vertical Harvest) Agritecture brings us the story of Vertical Harvest’s plans to open another location in Westbrook. Maine, a small community of 20,000 people. The project is a 70,000 square foot facility that is almost four stories high is expected to produce 1…
Touch the Soil News #1653 (Feature Photo – Micro Greens – By U.S. Department of Agriculture, Public Domain) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us the story of Fifth Season. Fifth Season is an indoor vertical farming enterprise that has already attracted over $30 million in venture capital money. The company plans to revolutionize the industry with…
Touch the Soil News #1648 (Feature Photo – Vertical Farming – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Valcenteu) Global AgInvesting brings us an in-depth analysis of vertical farming – its impact on feeding the world, concerns about costs and a host of other key issues. Issues that need to be faced by people wanting to enter the…
