by vine-admin | Aug 27, 2019 | Featured Stories, Guest Post, Indoor Agriculture, Innovator Spotlight
By Wes Melville Tobias Peggs is the CEO of Square Roots, an urban farming company based in Brooklyn, NY with a mission to bring local, real food to people in cities around the world by empowering next-gen leaders in urban farming. Their scalable “farmer-first”...
by vine-admin | Jul 23, 2019 | Agriculture, Featured Stories, Innovator Spotlight
The technology developed by PowWow in collaboration with the University of California was deployed at an almond orchard near Davis part of a 6,000 acre deployment in 2018. Names from left to right: Stanley Knutson, Director of Software Development at PowWow, Ricardo...
by vine-admin | Jul 18, 2019 | Agriculture, Featured Stories, Innovator Spotlight
Pharm Robotics is an agtech startup that is developing a robotic injection system for the dairy business. Its goal is to help dairy farmers deal with labor shortages and become more economically sustainable by automating the shot delivery process for cows. We spoke...
by vine-admin | Jun 18, 2019 | Featured Stories, food waste, Innovator Spotlight
Maen Mahfoud, Founder and CEO of the food rescue tech non-profit Replate, started Replate in 2016 while a student at UCB. Maen was inspired to start Replate when he realized that food insecurity in San Francisco was similar to what he saw as a child in his native...
by vine-admin | Jun 11, 2019 | Agriculture
Michael Rose of The Mixing Bowl and Better Food Ventures moderated a fascinating discussion on indoor agriculture at the Innovation Institute for Food and Health 2019 Innovator Summit at UC Davis in May. Rose opened the panel with the impressive statistic that private...
