Tag: entrepreneurship
Indian Startup Aims to Bring Vertical Farming To Your Doorstep
A Mumbai-based start-up, U-Farm Technologies, is using hydroponic techniques to customise modular farms for an individual apartment complex or for a supermarket.
A group of four, comprising three graduate students from Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences (BITS) Pilani and a horticulturist, came with an idea of building an automated,...
In Berlin, Cultivating A Taste For Plants
On the Moritzplatz, in the popular district of Kreuzberg in Berlin, a colourful crowd drops its bicycles and rushes inside the Prinzessingartenfor an exchange of exchange and sale of nutritious plants. There are also several stands of environmental protection associations. The garden appears, behind the fences, as an oasis...
Weekly Market Gives Public A Taste Of Foods Restaurants Choose
The innovative foods sold within the walls of an old printing warehouse on San Antonio’s near East Side include a freshly fermented bloody mary mix, locally farmed produce or a cluster of black garlic.
“The main reason for the event is to get chefs down here and see what we...
Futuristic Farming, In The City
Kern Agrawal was just 20 when he was introduced to the bliss and sanity of organic gardening and urban farming by his long-time girlfriend and now wife, Ranjani, over a decade ago.
Kern was ushered into the art and science of agriculture in his final year of MBA at the...
Farm-in-a-box Coming To A Distribution Centre Near You
Eric and Matt founded Local Roots four years ago. Their first purchases were broken-down, 40-foot shipping containers.
Local Roots upcycles the containers into modular, shippable, customizable farms, each of which can grow as much produce as five acres of farmland. The idea is to supplement, not supplant, outdoor agriculture.
Every aspect...