Category: Vertical Farming
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Following last week’s declaration of bankruptcy, Swedish urban agriculture company Plantagon has spoken publicly about what went wrong. In an interview with Swedish website AGFO, Plantagon’s vice president, Owe Pettersson, cited cashflow problems and indicated it had been difficult to attract enough capital to remain financially sustainable. Its ambition alone made Stockholm-based Plantagon a company…
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Freight Farms helped invent the now-thriving farm-in-a-container market, where companies build vertical farms inside old shipping containers to grow pesticide-free produce throughout the year. But now that vertical farming companies are sprouting up almost as fast as the leafy greens they grow, the Boston, MA-based startup wants to completely rebuild the shipping container concept. Its…
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I’ve long wanted to grow my own produce, even if it’s just lettuce. But since I live in a third-floor walkup the size of a Macy’s fitting room (and that includes the fire escape), outdoor gardening is out of the question. At one point vertical farming as a solution would have been an outlandish solution,…
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For a company less than one year old, Liberty Produce has already taken some big strides along its path to make vertical farming a more scalable, economically feasible reality. Specifically, the UK-based agtech company hopes to not just grow food, but also create an end-to-end, automated vertical farm system that, according to founder Zeina Chapman,…
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Vertical farming got a lot of attention at the very end of 2018, from Bowery’s $90 million funding round to news of major corporations starting their own farms. But amid all those numbers and names, one vital piece of information was (and is) missing: We don’t actually know how well the vertical farming market as…
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New Jersey-based indoor-farming startup Bowery announced yesterday that it has raised $90 million in fresh funding. The round was led by Alphabet Inc.’s GV with participation from Temasek and Almanac Ventures, General Catalyst and GGV Capital (Bowery’s Series A investors), and various seed investors. Bowery produces what founder Irving Fain calls “post-organic produce.” Or to…
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Tech startups and pundits alike are considering the many places (anywhere, really) in which indoor agriculture can become a reality. But an organization in the Bronx, NYC provides the most obvious clue as to where this type of farming can make its biggest impact. Teens for Food Justice (TFFJ) is a nonprofit dedicated to training…
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Your average institution, be it a schools, company, hospital, or university, typically doesn’t have the space or cash to consider an indoor farming initiative, even if it would mean putting fresher, more local greens into cafeterias and dining halls. That’s an issue Freight Farms looks to solve with the release of its new service Grown,…
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Happy pre-Independence Day weekend, everyone! I hope you have lots of cherry pies and popsicles planned, and maybe a good rooftop for watching fireworks. Before holiday madness sets in, take a few minutes to catch up on this week’s food tech news. Here at the Spoon we wrote about Kroger’s new self-driving delivery vehicles, super-smart…
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Crop One Holdings, parent company of FreshBox Farms, just announced a $40 million joint venture with Emirates Flight Catering to build the world’s largest vertical farm. The goal is to use the forthcoming farm to supply Emirates Flight Catering clients, which include the Emirates airline as well as 105 others and 25 airport lounges. “By…
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At this point, the benefits of indoor urban farming are common knowledge: fresher food, fewer transportation emissions, and less spoilage thanks to shorter transit distances. NYC’s Gotham Greens highlighted those and other benefits this week with the announcement that it had closed a $29 million Series C equity funding round led by Silverman Group and…
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Astronauts, you had better like salad. AP News reported last week that a team of scientists at Germany’s Neumayer Station III in Antarctica had successfully grown their first crop of produce without any soil, sunlight, or pesticides. The goal of the project was to explore food growing methods for use on outer space missions. In total the researchers…
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