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…
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…
