Touch the Soil News #1597 (Feature photo – CityFarm Malaysia – from left) Niew Ley Koon, Looi Choon Beng, Koay, Low Cheng Yang and (centre) Chew Jo Han. Photos: CityFarm Malaysia) TheStar news portal brings us news about four engineers that have launched a successful vertical farming enterprise called CityFarm Malaysia. The company sets up…
Category: Vertical Agriculture
Vertical Farming in Japan
Vertical Farming – Gaining Mass
Touch the Soil News #1499 (Feature photo – Vertical Farming – By Valcenteu – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9387472) GreenBiz journalist Jean Haggerty brings us news about the growth and acceptance of vertical farming. Vertical farming is often synonymous with hydroponics and controlled indoor environment agriculture. Vertical farming is also closely associated with urban…
The New AI, Robotics and Data Analysis Farmers
Touch the Soil News #1442 (Feature photo – Indoor Farming – CCA SA 3.0 Unported – Bryght Knyght) A newer company in Pittsburg called Fifth Season (https://www.fifthseasonfresh.com/#our-story) made news recently as it just got $35 million in funding to build a 60,000 square foot vertical farm. Being solar powered, the new facility will produce over…
Backyard Fresh Farms – Making Indoor Vertical Profitable
Touch the Soil News #1410 (Feature photo – Arugula – By Retama – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1803040) Chicago Tribune journalist Alexia Ruiz brings us the story of Jake Counne and the building of Backyard Fresh Farms. http://www.backyardfreshfarms.com/about-us/ Counne is convinced that his technology approach will allow him to grow food at an affordable…
Merging the Housing and Urban Farming Realms
Positive Future #513 (Feature photo Vertical Harvest – courtesy of Vertical Harvest) Fannie Mae (Federal National Mortgage Association) holds over $3 trillion in mortgage loans. As a government sponsored entity, its mission is to ensure adequate sources of funding for home buyers seeking financing. As a giant in the real estate arena, Fannie Mae is…
Vertical Farming – The Billion Dollar Gamble
Touch the Soil News #1376 (Feature photo – Vertical Farming – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license Growing greens in controlled environments is becoming big business. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested in a handful of large vertical farm start-ups. The goal is to start suppling cities with fresh greens as opposed…
Vertical Farms – Getting Bigger
Touch the Soil News #1366 (Feature photo – Rural Poverty – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license – Valcenteu) Plenty – a vertical farming company – has been in the news lately after it received new venture capital funding of $200 million in the past year. Now it’s time to demonstrate how spending that…
Emergence of the Russian iFarm
Touch the Soil News #1293 (Feature photo – Greenhouse Farming – CCA SA 3.0 Unported – Goldlocki) While controlled indoor vertical agriculture is not a new concept, it has reached the imagination of several Russian entrepreneurs that want to build automated vertical greenhouses for locations around the world. The plan is to not only provide…