Tag: urban farming

Food gardens on the roofs of medical centers and hospitals

A green roof on a Boston-based medical center.

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.  

Ancient urban gardens in Istanbul threatened to be wiped out

Urban farming and gardening is as old as civilization itself. The ancient hanging gardens of Babylon helped inspire the water...

Join the urban farming movement

Urban farming, whether found in large urban cities like Chicago, or in a Palestinian refugee camp near Bethlehem, is rapidly...

Gazan farmer is a role model for urban agriculture

Palestinian Said Salim Abu Nasser is on a mission to make urban farming more sustainable. He transformed a derelict...

Internet of Things – From Smart Fridge to Smart City

Like Cloud, Big Data and other technological buzzwords, the definition of the Internet of Things (IoT) is often stretched...

Chicago’s urban farming produces fresh veggies all year, 24/7

Hydroponics and new, high-tech urban agricultural techniques are now growing fresh food in the middle of Manhattan and other large...

Jordanian architect Hanna Salameh to eco-fix Jordan’s faulty towers

For five years a set of unfinished twin towers have stood watch over Amman, Jordan, construction halted - allegedly...

7 agricultural technologies that will save the Middle East

From vertical farming to rooftop gardening, here are 7 of the best agricultural companies and projects put in practice in...

Brooklyn’s Gotham Greens builds world’s largest urban rooftop farm

Growing green roofs is now mandatory for new buildings being built in Canada and France. Middle Eastern countries facing...

Eat New York City farm feast from city-grown fish and veggies

It's the middle of NYC AgTech Week. It's a time where futurists growing hyperlocal food and technologies in New York...

World’s best eatery NOMA reborn as an urban farm

Celebrity chef and foraging superstar René Redzepi told the New York Times on Monday that he is closing his Copenhagen restaurant...