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Square Mile Farms crowdfunding to bring urban farms to workplaces

Johnathan Ransom of Square Mile Farms started with the concept of ‘flat pack farms’ for urban areas and now, through its Office Farming model, is bringing vertical, urban farms to the workplaces of big businesses to help them achieve their sustainability and employee wellbeing goals. The company is opening a crowdfunding round.

Vertical farming and controlled environment farming will feature in a forthcoming Agri-TechE event

19/06/2020

Phytoponics secures £500,000 to scale commercial trials

Hydroponics company Phytoponics has just completed a £500,000 equity financing round. The company specialises in Deep Water Culture systems, where plant growing modules are kept oxygenated by built in aerators and serviced by a computerised nutrient control system. A major produce grower, Edward Baarda Limited, has become the first commercial grower in the UK to deploy Phytoponics technology at scale.

05/05/2020

LettUs Grow digs for victory with aeroponic farm modules

LettUs Grow, an indoor farming technology provider, is fast-tracking the building of two vertical farm modules in the city of Bristol during the COVID-19 outbreak.

The Innovate vertical farm will produce fresh food in 10 days and will donate the fresh produce to those in need in Bristol

22/04/2020

Stimulating debate in controlled environment agriculture

Can we really feed 40,000 people with a ‘SkyFarm’? Or will everyone in London have a ‘Personal Food Computer’ by 2040? Provocative questions…

02/03/2020

David Farquhar, CEO of Intelligent Growth Solutions

Masters of the sun, the rain and the wind: Intelligent solutions to Controlled Environment Agriculture

“We need to get honest about three things: the economics; the climate impact; and the range and quality of things that we can actually grow. Until we start to get a really serious narrative about that, the CEA industry will never move forward,” says David Farquhar, CEO of Intelligent Growth Solutions.

29/02/2020

Controlled Environment Agriculture – The Industry is Growing Up

Provocative questions are being posed at the Agri-TechE Controlled Environment Agriculture conference, which is exploring emerging technologies for vertical farming and for growing crops in a secure indoor spaces.

28/02/2020

Controlled Environment Exhibition

Industry leaders will profile the latest technologies, purpose-built facilities and innovations at ‘Controlled Environment Agriculture – The Industry Is Growing Up’ event on 18 March 2020- take a sneak peek at what the exhibition holds…

25/02/2020

Could vertical farms help alleviate the pressures facing food and farming?

Could an urban sky farm sustainably feed half of Battersea? Tom Cox thinks it could, he will present his vertical farm-of-the-future at our CEA event

21/02/2020

Controlled Environment Agriculture - Leafy greens and herbs grown by Square Mile Farms on the roof of Microsoft's office in Paddington CREDIT SquareMileFarms

Opportunities for innovation with rapid growth in Controlled Environment Agriculture

CEA is attracting significant global investment, creating huge opportunities for innovation – as well as divergence in business model.

27/01/2020

Speakers at the NIAB Agri-Tech Week event on baby leaf from left to right Graham Taylor, Lydia Smith, Robert Parker, Jim Stevens and Arnould Witteveen

Agri-Tech Week 2019: Baby leaf – a growing resource from field to tunnel

Baby leaf has increased in value as a salad crop over recent years, from £260m of bagged salad sold in 2005 to a staggering £1.1bn in 2017. NIAB hosted a Agri-Tech Week event to discuss what would be needed to grow the crop 24/7 with minimal waste in order to maximise the potential of this crop.

12/11/2019

Savills - vertical farming has stacks of potential

Vertical farming has stacks of potential, says Tom Brunt of Savills Food and Farming

Indoor farming in the UK has its roots in urban centres, but is it time now for virtual farming to move to the countryside?

17/06/2019

Great response to Controlled Environment Agriculture conference

The Controlled Environment Agriculture conference was a sell-out event and attracted significant interest from a good mix of people – a big thank you to all our speakers.

22/03/2019

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