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- Antarctic greenhouse celebrates their first harvest of lettuce, radishes, and cucumbers Fri, 6 Apr 18, 1:33amFresh, local produce may be a rarity in Antarctica, but one indoor farm near a research station there just welcomed their first harvest. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) said the experimental greenhouse EDEN-ISS, at Alfred...
- Scientists harvest the first ever Antarctic vegetables Fri, 6 Apr 18, 1:33amFresh, local produce might have seemed like an impossibility in Antarctica — until now. The experimental greenhouse EDEN-ISS at Alfred Wegener Institute's Neumayer-Station III recently harvested their first crops: 18 cucumbers,...
- Local Roots shipping container farms achieve cost parity with traditional farming Thu, 14 Dec 17, 1:29am99 percent less water and 4,000 lettuce heads every 10 days: Los Angeles-based Local Roots achieves all that in their shipping container farms. And today they announced they've also reached cost parity with traditional farming....
- Iowa grocery store grows 10-15 lbs of produce on outdoor vertical garden every week Wed, 30 Aug 17, 8:18amIt doesn't get much more local than this. In Davenport, Iowa, Hy-Vee grocery store commissioned Friday's Fresh Market (FFM) to install and maintain two eight-tower Grow Walls (hydroponic vertical gardens) on the outside of...
- Iowa grocery grows 10-15 lbs of produce on outdoor vertical garden - every week Tue, 29 Aug 17, 10:06pmIt doesn't get much more local than this. In Davenport, Iowa, Hy-Vee grocery store commissioned Friday's Fresh Market (FFM) to install and maintain two eight-tower Grow Walls, or hydroponic vertical gardens, on the outside...
- Kimbal Musk's new Memphis eatery will offer healthy meals on the go for $5 Fri, 24 Jun 16, 12:53amRegular readers of Inhabitat know of our continued intrigue with Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, but we haven’t reported as much on his youngest brother Kimbal Musk...
- Berlin grocery with vertical micro-farm reimagines the future of produce departments Fri, 25 Mar 16, 1:30amGrocers are in constantly pursuit of ways to connect their customers with the freshest, highest quality produce, but it’s a challenge when veggies have to be harvested at the farm and transported to market...
- FarmedHere to open a 60,000-square-foot vertical indoor farm in Louisville, Kentucky Sat, 30 Jan 16, 5:53amNothing says fresh-fresh-fresh like salad greens and herbs grown right in your hometown. Soon, residents around Louisville, Kentucky will be able to source even more local foods, in part because America’s biggest indoor...
- Chicago’s FarmedHere plans to expand vertical indoor farming to 20 new locations across the country Thu, 31 Dec 15, 10:00pmSerious indoor agriculture used to be reserved for people who were into black lights and excessive incense burning, but the times are definitely changing. Now, a number of savvy business folk are investing in vertical indoor...
- California’s first farm-to-table community makes eating local easy Wed, 2 Sep 15, 5:00amFor urbanites who like a little taste of the countryside at home, California's new farm-to-table community might be the ideal living space. The Cannery, soon to open in Davis, CA on the former site of the Hunt-Wesson tomato...
- Falling Fruit map guides you to local fruit that you can forage for free Sun, 26 Apr 15, 1:28amIt’s harvest season! The trees are overladed with fruit and while you may be spending your hard-earned cash at the farmer’s market to get your hands on it, did you know that you can pick fruit from trees on publicly accessible...
- This vertical farm will provide Wyoming residents with 100,000 lbs of fresh produce each year Tue, 10 Mar 15, 8:09amA 30 foot by 150 foot sliver of land located next to a parking lot in Jackson, Wyoming is set to be transformed into a vertical farm that will produce over 85,000lbs of produce each year...
- This vertical farm will provide Wyoming residents with 100,000lbs of fresh produce each year Mon, 9 Mar 15, 11:01pmA 30 foot by 150 foot sliver of land located next to a parking lot in Jackson, Wyoming is set to be transformed into a vertical farm that will produce over 85,000lbs of produce each year...
- Falling Fruit Guides You to Local Fruit That You Can Forage Sun, 24 Aug 14, 4:28amIt’s harvest season! The trees are overladed with fruit and while you may be spending your hard-earned cash at the farmer’s market to get your hands on it, did you know that you can pick fruit from trees on publicly accessible...
- Urban Cultivator Grows 100% Organic Hydroponic Greens in a Stylish and Fully Automated Indoor Garden Fri, 11 Jul 14, 12:30amMany of us would love to eat fresh and local produce all year round, but doing so can be difficult and expensive unless you have the time and space to grow your own food...