Sentences with phrase «indoor farming»

Instead users will have to buy pot from licensed private producers that grow the crop in large indoor farms.

From gorgeous green roofs to indoor farming ideas to new urban farm concepts, it has been an interesting year for living green design.

Freedom Farms products come from chickens raised on an RSPCA Approved indoor farm.

• The development of indoor farms, also known as controlled environment agriculture, and aseptic packaging facilities.

Though they are more expensive to install, geothermal systems used for indoor farming quickly recoup those additional costs, providing a distinct fiscal advantage to investors.»

Oshima claims that its newest farm, which opened in Newark in May, will be the world's most productive indoor farm by output once it reaches full capacity.

Philips, the large electronics company that has been at the forefront of LED technology over the past few years, has been partnering with indoor farming company Green Sense Farms on a city farming project that has demonstrated the ability for LED bulbs to replace greenhouse growing lights and typical horizontal, resource - heavy farming practices.

The trio bought old facilities in New Jersey — a steel mill, a club, a paintball center — and started converting them into indoor farms.

CEA Capital Holdings, of Akron, Ohio, has proposed building a 100 - acre indoor farm at White Pine Commerce Park off Route 31 in the Syracuse suburb of Clay.

One proposed facility would be a 100 - acre, $ 66.5 million indoor farm at White Pine Commerce Park in Clay.

Harnessing the energy of the sun and wind to fuel affordable LED light sources goes a long way towards minimizing expenses that traditionally rendered profitable indoor farming operations impossible.

Such indoor farming — ranging from skyscraper greenhouses to in vitro meat — is altering our definition of agriculture and creating technologies that could stave off a global food crisis.

One big problem is that indoor farming requires huge amounts of electricity, which is not only costly but also offsets much of the good done by preserving water because of the large carbon footprint it creates.

Other companies, like Michigan - based Green Spirit Farms and California - based Urban Produce, also sell to consumers using vertical farming methods, though The New Yorker reported in January that AeroFarms had twice the funding of any other indoor farming company — even before its recent $ 34 million round.

Montreal agtech startup motorleaf is setting its sights on $ 750,000 to help in the company's bid to automate indoor farming.

From that original idea, I expanded the concept to include urban agriculture and finally to multi-story indoor farming.»

However, Cox also likened indoor farming to the factory farming of animals, which people have said is «the industrialization of food production that's not necessary.»

Metropolis Farms is the first indoor farm to be vegetarian certified by the American Vegetarian Association in North America.

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November 2, 2017 Author: Jason Moon Broadcast Manager at the Association for Vertical Farming OCTOBER 2017, Farmers Cut, a German based indoor farming startup, recently joined as a member of the Association for Vertical Farming.

The amount of nutrients may vary but organic eggs can have up to double the amount of omega - 3, vitamin E, 25 % less saturated fat and more minerals compared to indoor farmed eggs.

Down to earth guy loves indoor farming, motorcycles, Boating, traveling and just snuggleing on the couch.

Last month, I covered the conversion of a former Sony semiconductor factory into an efficient indoor farm capable of turning out an incredible 10,000 heads of lettuce per day, but there are a number of other similar projects worthy of a mention as well.

One thing the tech industry is very good at is automation and building efficient processes for production, both of which are essential to successful indoor growing, and this trend toward indoor farming and local food production has been attracting some attention from that sector.

People have food allergies and dietary needs and indoor farming provides a way to address them.»

R&D Lead Lab Engineer for the NAR's Center for REALTOR ® Technology, Chris Coté can also envision more indoor farming on the horizon.

Chickens in an RSPCA Approved indoor farm have no access to an outdoor area.

«Strong growth in «local food» demand, the market forwhich has expanded from an estimated $ 1 billion to $ 7 billion in 2014, has meant a unique market entry point for indoor farms» higher price - point products, whether this means leafy greens harvested that morning for lunch service or microgreens grown to order for a local supermarket,» the report says.

More: This former semiconductor factory is now the world's largest indoor farm, producing 10K heads of lettuce per day

By applying their expertise to create efficient and productive indoor farms, some tech companies are making inroads into the brave new world of factory farming.

Tech companies that are more familiar to us as gadget and electronics manufacturers are beginning to branch out into indoor farming, applying their tech skills to growing veggies as well.

Clay, N.Y. — A proposed 100 - acre indoor farm could be the first tenant in a fledgling industrial park in the Syracuse suburb of Clay.

Indoor farming operations such as these are never going to completely replace our traditional farms or outdoor growing plots, but they aren't meant to, and they aren't a «be all, end all» solution to either feeding the world or solving local food challenges.

Hence the appeal of indoor farms and stacked, or vertical, growing methods, especially in conjunction with artificial lighting, because every aspect of the growing rooms can be monitored and controlled for optimal yields.

But as Despommier sees it, indoor farming is more a question of popular will — and capital investment — than anything else.

Many dead retail spaces, Williamson says, will most likely morph into businesses that have community functions, such as apartments, public libraries, indoor farms, and refrigerated spaces for processing food for local restaurants or grocery stores.

I built a vertical, indoor farm and showed people what we are doing.

In regards to educating city government, controlled - environment agriculture requirements for permitting, sewer, water and fire codes need to be understood and perhaps re-evaluated at the city level when it comes to indoor farming.

What businesses are really able to grow right now in indoor farms is limited to microgreens and leafy greens.

This bowl was inspired by my visit to the Bowery Farm, an indoor farm that grows the purest produce using 95 % -LRB-!)

Pigs in an RSPCA Approved indoor farm have no access to an outdoor area.

Turkeys in an RSPCA Approved indoor farm have no access to an outdoor area.

The piglets are born in the free range system and live there until they are weaned (which is normally around 3 - 5 weeks of age) and are then placed into an indoor system which can be intensive indoor housing (factory farming) or a «higher welfare» system such as an RSPCA Approved indoor farm.

The indoor farm is among 45 projects the Regional Economic Development Council is recommending for a total of $ 30.1 million in state grants and $ 12.1 million in state tax credits in the fifth round of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development council initiative.

Syracuse, N.Y. — Drone research, indoor farms, a cargo terminal and a resource complex for veterans are among the projects that would receive funding if Central New York is one of the winners in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $ 1.5 billion Upstate Revitalization Initiative.

And while a significant investment of time and research (as well as millions of dollars) would be needed to put these ideas into practice, experts say that one acre of multi-layered, indoor farming could theoretically produce the equivalent of four to thirty acres from conventional farms, depending on the crop.

Backyard Farms has a 42 - acre greenhouse, not as a single - indoor farm, but rather as a collection of smaller gardens tended by personal gardeners.

Ritz uses affordable technology for indoor farming, but teachers can start with milk cartons on a windowsill if that's all they have available.

On a typical school day in New York City's South Bronx, students at Community School 55 learn about science, literacy, math, geography, and more by cultivating an indoor farm, turning their harvest into healthy meals and sharing the bounty with others in their community.

Windowfarms let you garden - appropriately enough - in your windows Whereas the majority of vertical farming concepts and projects featured in Gizmag over the years have either been huge dedicated structures or add - ons to existing buildings, the Windowfarms system downsizes and personalizes veggie growing by placing an indoor farm in the window.