Can plants grow on the moon?
Can plants grow in a barren landscape such as the surface of the moon? If so, what types of plants? Could enough plants grow to support a future peopled-moon installation?
hydroponics
Saudi Aramco invests in hydroponics with Red Sea Farms
Saudi Aramco has led a $18.5 million USD investment round with the The Savola Group to grow soilless agriculture at the Red Sea Farms in Saudi Arabia.
Soil health calculator
To help farmers evaluate the impact carbon sequestration and other practices might have on their businesses, the Institute is developing a decision support tool
Future Crops gets $30M investment for hydroponics with substance
Gary Grinspan of Future Crops. Aiming to make hydroponics more closely resembling nature.
How to grow roots in the air
Want to learn how to grow roots in the air? This research team figured out how the plant does it.
Pros and cons of investing in a franchise
You might have a dream about growing an urban farm business. By why start with all the startup headaches from scratch when hydroponic farms like Freight Farms are available for franchise?
How Indoor Vertical Farming can help the world
Read on to find out more about vertical farming and the future of our agriculture.
Three bacterial strains discovered on space station may help grow plants on Mars
Artificial Intelligence is used by Karin Kloosterman in this biodome to grow bio-organic food with zero waste. Hydroponics and growing food this way might be the only chance for colonizers of Mars.
Infarm raises $170 million to add “farm” to cities
Infarm, a company that grows fresh produce inside supermarkets, has recently announced a $170 million USD funding round to help the company expand across Europe. Their environment-controlled and automated growing chambers grow food such as leafy greens inside the supermarket, so it's fresh, without your food accumulating food miles.
Moshe Safdie’s skywalk garden puts nature in China’s sky (VIDEO)
Moshe Safdie does it again: a stunning urban jungle and green tube high in the sky of a Chinese city.
New Yorkers go hard against fossil fuels, divest $215.5 billion pension funds from fossil fuels
You got to love New Yorkers. They are real, and they are often serious. And they like to walk the walk. So New Yorkers have a lot to celebrate now that their elected mayor Mayor Bill de Blasio declared that he will stop all new fossil fuel projects within and serving the city. Great talk, but what are locals doing really?
Tips for giving the ultimate kind of charity
Hydroponics farming is a good solution for growing food in countries where water is scarce. A USAID program gives training to local farmers so they can grow their own food and livelihood. This couple are from Jordan.
Want to live on Mars? Gala dinner in LA unveils first opportunities to eat like a Martian
If you could move to Mars, what would your house look like? Would you eat from your local hydroponic Martian farm, drink wine from the Martian vineyard and eat meat cultured by vegetarian butchers? Mars architect Vera Mulyani is building the first Mars City, on Earth, and is pretty sure your future home on Mars, […]
This growbot can help you grow food and cannabis, on earth and in space
If you’ve been following Green Prophet you’ll know that our founder Karin Kloosterman has been working on a super cool technology to help people like me and you take our food destiny into our own hands. That means the ability to grow super tasty, fresh and local food right from home. She’s built Eddy, a […]
Hydroponics is new way of growing plants
As urban sprawl continues, we are seeing less and less green space. Farmland is sprouting with subdivisions, city parks are being crowded out, and ever-smaller residential lots feature more residence and less lot. People are becoming less and less familiar with the wonders of nature, and they are craving access to it. Of course, from […]