Empathy Garden The project Empathy Garden was born as an installation in the Central Pavilion of the Exhibition Centre of Villa Erba on the Lake of Como in occasion of Orticolario (3-5 October 2014) – one of Italy’s leading events on advanced gardening. An Evolution of the project St Horto (MoMA showcased project and A+Award Architizer 2014 winner), Empathy Garden is a hybrid space: a meeting point, a stage for events and promotion of a culture of sustainability as ecosystemic consciousness, a showcase for local farms products and an immersive experience where atmospheric perceptions, the activity of plants and people are…
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Twycross Zoo’s elephants were treated to a futuristic free lunch this week courtesy of an innovative new vertical farming project which plans to help revolutionize food production in the UK, and any part of the world that struggles to grow enough food locally because of a lack of space or hostile environment. Project ‘Urban Grow’ resulted in a crop of 2,000 lettuces being grown from seed to full size in just over half the time it usually takes to grow a lettuce using traditional methods. The company and hydroponics experts behind the project, HydroGarden, based in Coventry, has created a…
Local By Atta is an indoor urban farm located in Moncton, Canada. It grows lettuce, greens and herbs hydroponically and specializes in offering pesticide-free produce year-round. It’s focus is on growing locally for local consumers. Its mission is to become a leader in the emergence of economically-, socially- and environmentally-responsible urban agriculture in Atlantic Canada. There’s something in the name that might interest you. There are two parts. The first, “Local”, I’ve already explained a bit. We’re focused on our local market, economy and community. The second part, “Atta”, is a bit of a longer explanation. It’s a genus of…
“Controlled environment agriculture is the present and future of global food production.” -David Proenza, President of ICCEA 2015 Register now!
Learn about Horticultural LED Grow Lights from the experts. Dr. Roberto Lopez, Dr Cary Mitchell and Students explore LED Grow Lights as both a sole source and supplemental source of growth light for commercially grown crops. Trials included: production of plugs in multilayer chamber using LEDs (sole-source), LED photo-periodic lighting of annuals, end of production LED lighting to enhance foliage color, and tower intra-canopy (interlighting) supplemental LED lighting of tomatoes. Video created and produced by Urban Ag News. If you are interested in having a video created about your organization please contact us directly.
Urban Ag News invites you to participate in an academic research survey on intensive greenhouse and indoor production of food and ornamental crops. Help us in supporting the universities conducting this research! Dear Grower, We are horticultural scientists doing academic research in controlled-environment agriculture, including indoor as well as greenhouse production of ornamental and food specialty crops. In order for us to better address the perceived needs of the commercial protected horticulture industry, we are seeking your opinion regarding important issues that affect the productivity and profitability of your business. The survey is completely anonymous in that we will…
“The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.” – President John F. Kennedy Let’s help support the people who put food on our tables! HarvestFunders.com is a crowdfunding website specifically designed to help provide the agricultural community with nonconventional funding for conventional needs using the power of crowdfunding. How Does It Work? Step 1 – Create a Project On HarvestFunders.com Step 2 – Share Your Project With Your Community Step 3 – Collect Donations Step 4 – Thank Your Contributors Please visit HarvestFunders.com or contact harvestfunders@gmail.com for more information on how…
Radio Panamá has interviewed ICCEA’s David Proenza. “The conept of the vertical greenhouse is to produce on many levels. In this method of production, we work with LED lights,” said David Proenza, who has been using this method of vertical production for three years. In this system, LED lights substitute the sun and collaborate in photosynthesis. “In vertical production, everything is controlled by computers,” added Proenza, who also highlighted that pesticides are not needed.
UW-Stevens Point’s Continuing Education program, Department of Biology and Northern Aquaculture Demonstration Facility have partnered with Nelson and Pade Inc. to offer a full semester course, Introduction to Aquaponics. It is available as either a two credit or three credit course. All lectures and discussions take place online The three credit option includes a 3-day lab session at Nelson and Pade, Inc’s demonstration greenhouse in Montello, WI. The next offering for this course is the spring, 2015 semester. The lectures run from late February – early May and take place online, each with a self-study session followed by a live chat…
March 3 & 4 Eagle Ridge Conference Center Raymond, Mississippi If you are a grower of greenhouse tomatoes, or if you have interest in growing this crop, mark your calendar now for the 25th Annual Greenhouse Tomato Short Course. Participating in this program will be the best way to learn all about producing greenhouse tomatoes. Read more and register here: http://greenhousetomatosc.com
If you’re needing to practice your Spanish, here is a feature of #ICCEA2015 on the Panama News channel NEXtv.
This past week I received some excellent questions regarding the 2015 International Congress on Controlled Environment Agriculture, which for social media purposes we will also be using #ICCEA2015. First question – What is the purpose for ICCEA2015? This conference was designed to tackle and openly discuss the science as well as the understanding of the current technologies behind growing crops in a controlled environment. As most of us know, there is no shortage of ideas or inspiration needed to find an answer to the often posed question: “How do we feed 9 billion people by 2050?” And, we would probably…
This past week I had the opportunity to attend the 8th North American Strawberry Symposium in Ventura, California (hosted by the North American Strawberry Growers Association.) This event is a “meeting point” for researchers, growers and industry professionals from around the world. (I personally had a coffee or beer with people from the US, Mexico, Canada, Japan, Holland and Belgium.) Historically this was a traditional strawberry production event, focusing on field production issues. BUT, this seems to be changing. This year there were three specific talks that focused on the soilless production of strawberries. These discussions were: The latest Dutch/European…
The 2015 Spring Crop Production & Engineering Design Short Course, from March 22–27, will include two new demonstrations this year as a part of the CEAC workshop day on Thursday March 26th. A Vegetable Grafting demonstration will be given by Dr. Chieri Kubota, which will highlight strategies and information to successfully graft plants. There will also be a fertigation demonstration that will be given by HortiMax, which will highlight a state of the art fertigation system. This presentation will include operations and benefits about the system, and show attendees how to work such a system. The full short course from March 23-26, features 3 full days of lecture on all things CEA, followed by…