Innovator Spotlight: Biome Makers Creates Ag Solutions with Micoorganisms

by vine-admin | Oct 2, 2019 | Agriculture, Featured Stories, Guest Post, Innovator Spotlight, Technology

Biome Makers is a biotech company that recently relocated from the Bay Area to West Sacramento. Biome Makers specializes in understanding the microbiome – the microlife – around agriculture, in order to improve agricultural production and quality. These improvements...

Innovator Spotlight: Pheronym – Directed Plant Protection

by vine-admin | Sep 15, 2019 | Agriculture, Featured Stories, Guest Post, Innovator Spotlight

Pheronym is an ag biotech startup that uses nematode pheromones to control beneficial and parasitic nematodes. The firm is located in Alachua, Florida and at the UC Davis HM.CLAUSE Life Sciences Innovation Center in Davis, California.   Pheronym has two products in...

Innovator Spotlight: Caroline Cotto of Renewal Mill on the Upcycled Food Movement and the Next Generation of Ingredients That Are Leading the Way

by vine-admin | Sep 11, 2019 | Featured Stories, food waste, Guest Post, Innovator Spotlight

Renewal Mill, a Bay Area food ingredients company that upcycles the byproduct leftover from soy milk production, is at the forefront of the food waste movement. Its current focus is okara, the wet pulp-like substance that’s left behind after the soy milk manufacture...

Innovator Spotlight: Maas Energy Works, Providing Renewable Energy, Economic and Environmental Benefits in the California Dairy Industry  

by vine-admin | Aug 27, 2019 | Featured Stories, food waste, Guest Post, Innovator Spotlight

Maas Energy Works develops, owns, and operates anaerobic manure digesters which produce methane that is turned into electricity and compressed natural gas. Maas harnesses this “cow power” in partnership with dairies and other commercial facilities. Sixteen of the...

Innovator Spotlight: Tobias Peggs of Square Roots on Their Platform to Empower the Next Generation of Farmers

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”...

Innovator Spotlight: PowWow, Water Management Made Easy

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...