Urban Vertical Farming. Farming for the Future: National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition Releases its 2012 Farm Bill Platform. March 19, 2012 | National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition News Release (March 19) – Today, the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition released its comprehensive 2012 Farm Bill policy platform, Farming for the Future: A Sustainable Agriculture Agenda for the 2012 Food & Farm Bill.
With a round of Senate Agriculture Committee hearings complete and House Agriculture Committee field hearings underway, Congress is hard at work writing a new farm bill. Meanwhile, the perfect storm of economic, environmental, and health crises currently gripping our nation demands decisive farm policy reform that will ensure a sustainable future for American agriculture. Adoption of the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition’s 2012 Farm Bill platform will expand opportunities for family farmers to produce good food, sustain the environment, and contribute to vibrant communities. “Congress should not delay the adoption of a new farm and food bill. The platform can be viewed online at. "The Vertical Farm," the Movie by Sting.
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Despommier on vertical farming. Photo by Kris Krug courtesy of Pop! Tech 2008 Since 1989, Sting has been involved in protecting the Amazon through the Rainforest Foundation which he co-founded with his wife Trudie Styler and last month played a benefit concert for the organization. He's been involved in other environmental causes like supporting sustainable food, and now he's putting a camera where his mouth is. Despommier's upcoming book from Thomas Dunne Books coming to a farmscraper near you. As described in Treehugger over the last few years, the idea lays out a system of farming in which food is grown within tall city buildings as an efficient means of land use and way to get fresh food to local residents. Sting's film will document the first vertical farm to be constructed in a major U.S. city.
Vertical farms - Why waste land when you can grow food in skyscrapers? - I Look Forward To. Soil-based agriculture is so passé.
Nothing short of an agricultural revolution is underway, spurred on by visionary Dr. Dickson Despommier of Columbia University. Video from Seedstock's San Diego Sustainable Agriculture Entrepreneurship Event. December 6, 2011 | Robert Puro Last week, Seedstock, in association with Rady Entrepreneur Club held a panel entitled, Sustainable Agriculture Entrepreneurship in Southern California at the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego.
The sold out event featured seven entrepreneurs discussing their companies and their reasons for pursuing and developing sustainable agriculture ventures and technologies. From high tech indoor urban farms that utilize the latest vertical farming technology to grow food cleanly, efficiently and without chemicals to renewable energy technology that generates electricity from agricultural waste, the entrepreneurs on the panel embodied the promise and vision of a sustainable agriculture industry that is set to experience explosive growth. Seedstock, with the help of Rady School of Management, recorded the entire event on video. Digest: Vertical Farming Startups Seek Profit by Bringing Sustainable Agriculture to Cities.
August 12, 2011 | seedstock It’s Vertical Farming day over at Seedstock and we’re celebrating with a digest that features stories on a number of vertical urban agriculture startups that have the potential to play an outsize role in furthering the goals of sustainable agriculture.
Enjoy your reads! Rooftop Farm Couples Science with Sustainability Finding fresh, high-quality produce in Montreal is a challenge. The long and winding road that produce typically travels from farm to market in this city means that it must be harvested far before it’s ripe in order to survive long shipping distances. Growing a Million Heads of Lettuce on a Pin To grow one million heads of lettuce using conventional agriculture methods in the US requires either 16 acres of land in the Northern states, 8 acres of land in the Southern states, or .9 acres in a traditional hydroponic greenhouse operation. Home Town Organic Farm Goes Vertical in the City. July 7, 2011 | Robert S.
Altman Dan Gibbs, CEO of San Diego, CA-based vertical organic farming startup Home Town Farms, doesn’t believe he’s introducing a new company, but an entire industry that will benefit consumers, the environment and the future of sustainable agriculture. “Urban farming isn’t new, vertical farming isn’t new, but vertical urban farming is new,” said Gibbs. To grow the vertical urban farming industry, Home Town Farms plans to build one-half to three-acre greenhouses on the rooftops, abandoned lots, and corners of urban areas in densely populated U.S. cities. Using proprietary vertical farming techniques, each site will produce organic vegetables, berries, lettuces and herbs to be sold to local consumers on site and wholesale to local farmers markets, restaurants and grocery stores. Prior to developing his vertical farming concept, Gibbs focused his agricultural efforts on exploring opportunities in the growing organic produce marketplace.
How It Works. Central NY Aquaponic Farm, a Business and Testing Ground for Future of Agriculture. October 18, 2011 | Deanna Krinn What began as a business plan drawn up for fun has spawned Aqua Vita Farms, central New York’s first aquaponic farm.
Aqua Vita Farms was founded by Mark Doherty and seeks to provide wholesale food distributors with safe, high value, aquaponically grown seafood and produce. Windowfarms. Roof Garden - City Farmer News. Lufa Farm is building a third greenhouse in Montreal starting this year by Michael Levenston Second Lufa farm in Laval.
Lufa Farm’s urban rooftop greenhouse uses state-of-the-art technology and design to use 50 percent less energy than a ground-level greenhouse. See more photos here. “By the end of 2014, we’re hoping to feed 7,000 people each week in the greater Montreal area.” by Gerry Weaver The Produce News March 27, 2014 Excerpts: “We’re building a third greenhouse in Montreal starting this year. The second greenhouse is 43,000 square feet and located in Laval, Quebec. [Read more →] ‘Breathtaking’ 7-month time lapse documenting the first full growing season at the Brooklyn Grange’s Rooftop Farm Brooklyn Grange – A New York Growing Season from Christopher St. Home - BuildingGreen.com. Urban Farming On Rooftops hits New York.