At Applegarth Farm in Hampshire, UK, Seedleaves has launched a hyper-local vertical farming model that integrates production, retail, and dining under one roof. The 5,000 square foot “vertical barn” houses a restaurant, cookery school, and delicatessen, all supplied directly by crops grown on-site. Their mantra is: Produce it where you consume it.
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At Applegarth Farm in Hampshire, UK, Seedleaves has launched a hyper-local vertical farming model that integrates production, retail, and dining under one roof. The 5,000 square foot “vertical barn” houses a restaurant, cookery school, and delicatessen, all supplied directly by crops grown on-site. Their mantra is: Produce it where you consume it.
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Urban Greens in Uganda aims to build micro-farm networks across East Africa with the motto; “We don’t just want to install systems; we want to create entrepreneurs”!
At the heart of their model is an integrated, modular aquaponics farming system tailored to Africa’s constraints and needs.
The African greenhouse industry is experiencing significant growth, yet it faces mounting pressures that demand strategic decision-making from growers. Dr. Estelle Kempen of Stellenbosch University highlights the importance of optimizing production systems by integrating modern technologies.
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Vanilla Vida – an Israeli startup addressing the vast mismatch between supply and demand in the natural vanilla market – has announced its first scaled harvest of vanilla plants grown via an indoor farming system that halves the time from planting to bloom and delivers higher yields of vanillin.
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“Compared to last year, we now yield 1050kg of cucumbers and 626kg of tomatoes per m2 annually” “We have moved from an R&D stage into a full production scale since January 2023. It’s been a crucial period for us, both technologically and economically. The completion of a Proof of Concept (POC) facility, spanning 300m2, marked […]
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