Indoor Agriculture
Latest Posts
-
The Global Controlled Environment Agriculture Consortium (GCEAC) – What’s That?
Writen by: Leanna Sweha, JD
Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) – growing food in greenhouses and indoors – is a relatively new industry that is seeing exponential growth in the United States. CEA facilities are popping up all over the world.…
View Details -
Insights on the Evolution of Innovation in CEA – Allison Kopf of iUNU
Writen by: Leanna Sweha, JD
Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) promises safe, high-quality produce grown with less water and chemical inputs, as well as reduced labor, packaging, and transportation costs. These efficiency factors are driving significant investment in the CEA industry.
… View Details -
Where is Animal Agtech Investment Heading in 2022?
Writen by: Leanna Sweha, JD
Investment in agtech reached a record high last year. According to Crunchbase data, investors made nearly $5 billion in 440 funding deals to VC-backed startups in 2021. That’s a fifty percent increase over the…
View Details -
Indoor Agriculture: Gotham Greens Accelerates Growth With West Coast Expansion
Indoor agricultural pioneer Gotham Greens is going west, with a new state-of-the-art high-tech 10-acre greenhouse facility opening in 2021 in Solano County, California.
Entering into a partnership with the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) and…
View Details -
Innovator Spotlight: LumiGrow Smart LED Grow Lights for High Performance Plant Growth and Increased Profits
LumiGrow is a lighting engineering company based in Emeryville, California that makes smart LED grow lights for controlled environment agriculture (CEA). We recently met with Melanie Yelton, VP…
View Details -
Innovator Spotlight: Tobias Peggs of Square Roots on Their Platform to Empower the Next Generation of Farmers
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…
View Details -
Agropol Urban Farm Brings Microgreens and Fines Herbs to Québec
Agropol runs a microgreens and fines herbs urban farm in Sherbrooke, Québec. They provide high end restaurants and consumers with the freshest green products, grown in a garage, near downtown Sherbrooke.
You have a degree in communication and marketing and…
View Details
