Tag: Vertical Farm
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,...
Vertical Farming As A Solution To Urbanisation
A New York-based sustainability strategist, Henry Gordon-Smith, said more and more young people were attracted to vertical farming.
Vertical farming is producing food on vertically stacked layers, or in high rise buildings, rooftops, glasshouses, warehouses, or shipping containers.
He said it was becoming increasingly popular in countries such as the United...
Farms Are Growing In Kuala Lumpur
THE notion that farming is an activity that requires a huge land area has been clearly debunked as urban farming gains ground among Malaysian city dwellers.
In the heart of Kuala Lumpur, Wong Min Lik has co-founded Moutou Art Space on the rooftop of a building at Lorong Panggong.
An empty...
‘Closed Loop’ Urban Farm In Singapore Tackles Food Waste With Insects
Citizen Farm has been using the black soldier fly to help grow its vegetables, as food for its fish and to help tackle food waste - the first in Singapore to incorporate these insects as part of farming practice.
The "closed loop" farm runs on a circular economy approach, by...
Africa Needs Its Version Of Vertical Farms To Feed Growing Cities
Vertical farms use high tech lighting and climate controlled buildings to grow crops like leafy greens or herbs indoors while using less water and soil.
Because it's a closed growing system, with controlled evaporation from plants, this farms use 95% less water than traditional farms.
At the same time, most vertical...
Growing Greens in the Spare Room as ‘Vertical Farm’ Start-Ups Flourish
Dan Albert’s farm is far from traditional. Farmbox Greens is inside a two-car garage behind Mr. Albert’s Seattle home. It consists of 600 square feet of microgreens grown in vertically stacked trays beneath LED lights. He now has three employees and sells his greens to about 50 restaurants in...