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 #1924 (Feature Photo – Lettuce Heads – Public Domain, UDA) Agfunder News brings the story of Hardee Fresh, boasting to be the only U.S, certified organic vertical farm. Hardee Fresh recently secured $56 million to build and run a 340,000 square foot vertical farm. That equates to almost 8 acres and…
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…
Touch the Soil News #1842 (Feature Photo – Vertical Farming – CCA SA 3.0 Unported) East Fruit news portal takes a look at some lessons learned in Europe about vertical farms. Vertical farm expert Jacopo Monzini, explains that a lack of knowledge of the systems, technology and all that is involved is the cause of…
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 #1675 (Feature Photo – Vertical Farming – By Kabirnayeem.99 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70160314) What If YouTube news channel brings us the story of vertical farming. While vertical farming is not new, its contributions to overall global nutrition are small and cover mostly the growing of micro-greens and lettuces.…
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…
