#verticalfarming — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #verticalfarming, aggregated by home.social.
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@BenjaminHCCarr Keep in mind that there's an inherent contraction in all scales of things (what goes Big Bang, goes Big Crunch), and a vital infrastructure like farming, will only sustain 'flat plain' systems for so long.
This is where evolution to vertical farming is in order.
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Vertical farming isn't about growing tomatoes indoors. It's about redesigning the metabolic logic of cities — from consumers of food to producers of it. That's a civilizational shift hiding inside a hydroponic system.
https://onlys.ky/vertical-farms/
#VerticalFarming #UrbanAgriculture #FoodSecurity #FutureOfFood #Sustainability
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I came across a piece this week on the slow erosion of small farming — the consolidation, the industrialization, the quiet disappearance of local growing capacity.
It sent me back to Evan Fraser's Empires of Food. His argument is uncomfortable but hard to dismiss: the civilizations that lost control of their food supply didn't survive it.
That's not ancient history. It's a pattern worth paying attention to right now.
#FoodSovereignty #CEA #VerticalFarming #EmpiresOfFood #FoodSecurity
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"Canada became a commodity and ingredient country. We handed the commercialization value away to other nations in exchange for what felt like easier returns."
— Arlene DickinsonThat framing is worth sitting with. It wasn't just an economic miscalculation — it was a sovereignty one.
The answer she's pointing at isn't only policy. It's domestic production capacity. Year-round. Local. Decoupled from the supply chains now under strain.
#FoodSovereignty #VerticalFarming #BuyCanadian #FoodSecurity
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Charlebois is right — Canadians under pressure are skipping fast food and heading straight to grocery.
From a food sovereignty angle, that shift matters. Retail is where the affordability battle is being fought now.
CEA is already part of that story — local, year-round greens getting genuinely competitive on price.
Next frontier: bundle in protein. Whole meals, not just salad bags.
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A $70m “farm of the future” in Georgia is being sold for parts—just as greenhouses, robots and AI quietly take over indoor farming.
What does Bowery’s liquidation really say about vertical farming’s business model?
🔗 https://agtech.industryexaminer.com/vertical-farming-auction-greenhouse-reset/
#AgTech #VerticalFarming #CEA #Greenhouse #FoodSecurity #TechNews
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🍛 From space science to dinner plates: Reimagining the future of farming indoors
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-space-science-dinner-plates-reimagining.html
#food #agriculture #technology #manufacturing #verticalfarming #indoorfarming #farming #ecology #environment
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Yes, we think this will be the future of farming. It's just a matter of how soon.
#FutureOfFarming #SustainableAgriculture #GreenTechnology #VerticalFarming #Hydroponics #AgriInnovation #SmartFarming #EcoFarming
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#WordWeavers 10.7 — How does the world your characters inhabit deal with garbage?
Garbage is separated in compostable and not. The former is systematically composted and used in the vertical farms. The latter is recycled. Examples of latter - mostly metallic things. Paper/plastic have been substituted with compostable material w/ similar characteristics.
#solarpunk #recycle #compost #anewfaith #verticalfarming #precisionfermentation #land #food #water #solar #climatechange #migration
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Lettuce Wall Thread
Wood is stained and ready to assemble!
I've started to mount the T8 LED Grow Light strips. I'm putting two T8s on each shelf. I have left space to put a single T5 or T8 in the middle in the future if I need more light. But two T8s should be plenty.
(Note how long its been since my last update. It takes me a while to complete projects for a variety of reasons. I still work on them though even if they take a while. I complete as much as I'm able at any given time knowing that when I'm able to work on it in the future, I will. I have no set schedule and I am forgiving and easy on myself. It will get done. In its own time.)
#solarPunk #hydroponics #indoorGardening #verticalFarming #vegetableGardening #postScarcity #foodSecurity
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#Newswire: Spanish Agrifoodtech startup Néboda has closed a €1.84 million seed funding round to consolidate its pre-industrial vertical farming model. The round was backed by a group of strategic investors, including Clave Capital, UNIRISCO, Xesgalicia, Eatable Adventures, and CDTI Innovación.
#VerticalFarming #AgTech #StartupFunding #VentureCapital #SeedFunding #AgriFoodTech #Investment #ScaleUp #InnovationEconomy #FoodTech #Spain #PressRelease
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🍓 Virginia farm grows 4 million pounds of strawberries on less than one acre — and the secret is vertical farming. This game-changing method could revolutionize how we feed the future.
https://www.upworthy.com/strawberry-farm-in-virginia-grows-4-million-pounds-of-berries-on-less-than-one-acre-ex1#VerticalFarming #FoodInnovation #StrawberryScience #FutureOfFarming #SustainableAg #foodie
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CW: vertical farms are a scam, oh you are soo right!
I second this sooo much.
There are different reasons why vertical farms are still a thing. They are rooted in technocracy, academia and capitalism*.
- technocracy: technology changed many aspects of our lives, so people tend to think that there are technological solutions for everything. Academia and public funding strongly prefers tech-solutions over system solutions.
- The epistemology of natural sciences (= the idea that everything mechanism can be observed and understood individually). This hampers the ability of natural sciences (including agronomy) to understand the complexity of biological systems. Therefore, scientists shy away from truly interdisciplinary real-world agroecosystem science (cooperating with farmers for #agroecology? what a hassle!) and feel way more comfortable doing lab-experiments. And what is more lab-like than a lab-greenhouse?
Plus, if you resolve the problems of the world, maybe people will call you saviour and this is what the ego of us scientists makes us crave for.- capitalism (or however you want to name this shit): small-scale farming systems don't work so well with neoliberal scaling ideologies.And we have many large capitals pushing into agriculture, either because they are greedy asshats (or simply don't care) or, even worse, because they want to be the good guys: Many pension funds, churches, governments, wealthy individuals with a pinch of bad consciousness are receiving pressure from society to shift towards "sustainable" investments and green their portfolio. Since you can't easily invest in small-scale farmers, "green" tech-solutions are the main remaining possibility to invest in agriculture. And this is why there is an endless stream of money pouring into any start-up that promises to resolve the problems of agriculture.
- Cheap energy and and a lack of understanding what "resilience" and "food sovereignity" means.
Ok, I forgot some other drivers: urbanization (the proportion of people living in megacities continues to grow) and the fact that industrial agriculture has a really shitty environmental record and this is known. So people are looking desperately for easy and market-compatible solutions.
We need more #Solarpunk, folks!*Here we could go deeper and identify also colonialism and patriarchy and so on, but I hope you get my point here.
#Agriculture #UrbanFarming #VerticalFarming #IndustrialAgriculture #Agroecology #GreenInvestment #SustainableInvestments #SustainableAgriculture #SoilLessCultivation #Horticulture
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CW: vertical farms are a scam, oh you are soo right!
I second this sooo much.
There are different reasons why vertical farms are still a thing. They are rooted in technocracy, academia and capitalism*.
- technocracy: technology changed many aspects of our lives, so people tend to think that there are technological solutions for everything. Academia and public funding strongly prefers tech-solutions over system solutions.
- The epistemology of natural sciences (= the idea that everything mechanism can be observed and understood individually). This hampers the ability of natural sciences (including agronomy) to understand the complexity of biological systems. Therefore, scientists shy away from truly interdisciplinary real-world agroecosystem science (cooperating with farmers for #agroecology? what a hassle!) and feel way more comfortable doing lab-experiments. And what is more lab-like than a lab-greenhouse?
Plus, if you resolve the problems of the world, maybe people will call you saviour and this is what the ego of us scientists makes us crave for.- capitalism (or however you want to name this shit): small-scale farming systems don't work so well with neoliberal scaling ideologies.And we have many large capitals pushing into agriculture, either because they are greedy asshats (or simply don't care) or, even worse, because they want to be the good guys: Many pension funds, churches, governments, wealthy individuals with a pinch of bad consciousness are receiving pressure from society to shift towards "sustainable" investments and green their portfolio. Since you can't easily invest in small-scale farmers, "green" tech-solutions are the main remaining possibility to invest in agriculture. And this is why there is an endless stream of money pouring into any start-up that promises to resolve the problems of agriculture.
- Cheap energy and and a lack of understanding what "resilience" and "food sovereignity" means.
Ok, I forgot some other drivers: urbanization (the proportion of people living in megacities continues to grow) and the fact that industrial agriculture has a really shitty environmental record and this is known. So people are looking desperately for easy and market-compatible solutions.
We need more #Solarpunk, folks!*Here we could go deeper and identify also colonialism and patriarchy and so on, but I hope you get my point here.
#Agriculture #UrbanFarming #VerticalFarming #IndustrialAgriculture #Agroecology #GreenInvestment #SustainableInvestments #SustainableAgriculture #SoilLessCultivation #Horticulture
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CW: vertical farms are a scam, oh you are soo right!
I second this sooo much.
There are different reasons why vertical farms are still a thing. They are rooted in technocracy, academia and capitalism*.
- technocracy: technology changed many aspects of our lives, so people tend to think that there are technological solutions for everything. Academia and public funding strongly prefers tech-solutions over system solutions.
- The epistemology of natural sciences (= the idea that everything mechanism can be observed and understood individually). This hampers the ability of natural sciences (including agronomy) to understand the complexity of biological systems. Therefore, scientists shy away from truly interdisciplinary real-world agroecosystem science (cooperating with farmers for #agroecology? what a hassle!) and feel way more comfortable doing lab-experiments. And what is more lab-like than a lab-greenhouse?
Plus, if you resolve the problems of the world, maybe people will call you saviour and this is what the ego of us scientists makes us crave for.- capitalism (or however you want to name this shit): small-scale farming systems don't work so well with neoliberal scaling ideologies.And we have many large capitals pushing into agriculture, either because they are greedy asshats (or simply don't care) or, even worse, because they want to be the good guys: Many pension funds, churches, governments, wealthy individuals with a pinch of bad consciousness are receiving pressure from society to shift towards "sustainable" investments and green their portfolio. Since you can't easily invest in small-scale farmers, "green" tech-solutions are the main remaining possibility to invest in agriculture. And this is why there is an endless stream of money pouring into any start-up that promises to resolve the problems of agriculture.
- Cheap energy and and a lack of understanding what "resilience" and "food sovereignity" means.
Ok, I forgot some other drivers: urbanization (the proportion of people living in megacities continues to grow) and the fact that industrial agriculture has a really shitty environmental record and this is known. So people are looking desperately for easy and market-compatible solutions.
We need more #Solarpunk, folks!*Here we could go deeper and identify also colonialism and patriarchy and so on, but I hope you get my point here.
#Agriculture #UrbanFarming #VerticalFarming #IndustrialAgriculture #Agroecology #GreenInvestment #SustainableInvestments #SustainableAgriculture #SoilLessCultivation #Horticulture
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CW: vertical farms are a scam, oh you are soo right!
I second this sooo much.
There are different reasons why vertical farms are still a thing. They are rooted in technocracy, academia and capitalism*.
- technocracy: technology changed many aspects of our lives, so people tend to think that there are technological solutions for everything. Academia and public funding strongly prefers tech-solutions over system solutions.
- The epistemology of natural sciences (= the idea that everything mechanism can be observed and understood individually). This hampers the ability of natural sciences (including agronomy) to understand the complexity of biological systems. Therefore, scientists shy away from truly interdisciplinary real-world agroecosystem science (cooperating with farmers for #agroecology? what a hassle!) and feel way more comfortable doing lab-experiments. And what is more lab-like than a lab-greenhouse?
Plus, if you resolve the problems of the world, maybe people will call you saviour and this is what the ego of us scientists makes us crave for.- capitalism (or however you want to name this shit): small-scale farming systems don't work so well with neoliberal scaling ideologies.And we have many large capitals pushing into agriculture, either because they are greedy asshats (or simply don't care) or, even worse, because they want to be the good guys: Many pension funds, churches, governments, wealthy individuals with a pinch of bad consciousness are receiving pressure from society to shift towards "sustainable" investments and green their portfolio. Since you can't easily invest in small-scale farmers, "green" tech-solutions are the main remaining possibility to invest in agriculture. And this is why there is an endless stream of money pouring into any start-up that promises to resolve the problems of agriculture.
- Cheap energy and and a lack of understanding what "resilience" and "food sovereignity" means.
Ok, I forgot some other drivers: urbanization (the proportion of people living in megacities continues to grow) and the fact that industrial agriculture has a really shitty environmental record and this is known. So people are looking desperately for easy and market-compatible solutions.
We need more #Solarpunk, folks!*Here we could go deeper and identify also colonialism and patriarchy and so on, but I hope you get my point here.
#Agriculture #UrbanFarming #VerticalFarming #IndustrialAgriculture #Agroecology #GreenInvestment #SustainableInvestments #SustainableAgriculture #SoilLessCultivation #Horticulture
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CW: vertical farms are a scam, oh you are soo right!
I second this sooo much.
There are different reasons why vertical farms are still a thing. They are rooted in technocracy, academia and capitalism*.
- technocracy: technology changed many aspects of our lives, so people tend to think that there are technological solutions for everything. Academia and public funding strongly prefers tech-solutions over system solutions.
- The epistemology of natural sciences (= the idea that everything mechanism can be observed and understood individually). This hampers the ability of natural sciences (including agronomy) to understand the complexity of biological systems. Therefore, scientists shy away from truly interdisciplinary real-world agroecosystem science (cooperating with farmers for #agroecology? what a hassle!) and feel way more comfortable doing lab-experiments. And what is more lab-like than a lab-greenhouse?
Plus, if you resolve the problems of the world, maybe people will call you saviour and this is what the ego of us scientists makes us crave for.- capitalism (or however you want to name this shit): small-scale farming systems don't work so well with neoliberal scaling ideologies.And we have many large capitals pushing into agriculture, either because they are greedy asshats (or simply don't care) or, even worse, because they want to be the good guys: Many pension funds, churches, governments, wealthy individuals with a pinch of bad consciousness are receiving pressure from society to shift towards "sustainable" investments and green their portfolio. Since you can't easily invest in small-scale farmers, "green" tech-solutions are the main remaining possibility to invest in agriculture. And this is why there is an endless stream of money pouring into any start-up that promises to resolve the problems of agriculture.
- Cheap energy and and a lack of understanding what "resilience" and "food sovereignity" means.
Ok, I forgot some other drivers: urbanization (the proportion of people living in megacities continues to grow) and the fact that industrial agriculture has a really shitty environmental record and this is known. So people are looking desperately for easy and market-compatible solutions.
We need more #Solarpunk, folks!*Here we could go deeper and identify also colonialism and patriarchy and so on, but I hope you get my point here.
#Agriculture #UrbanFarming #VerticalFarming #IndustrialAgriculture #Agroecology #GreenInvestment #SustainableInvestments #SustainableAgriculture #SoilLessCultivation #Horticulture
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On this episode of the Reboot Chronicles, strategist Rob Wolcott- founder of Clareo, the Kellogg Innovation Network, and Twin Global takes us on a journey through the challenges and opportunities of our ever-changing landscape, pushing leaders to embrace vision and adaptability. https://zurl.co/NdQIe
#therebootchronicles #deandebiase #BuildBuyBorrow #RobWolcott
#Strategy #Leadership #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI #AI #VerticalFarming #Sustainable #Adaptability #ProximityBook #Bustanica -
The developer of a biologic drug-making process with engineered plant crops is collaborating with a vertical farming company to create a network of biologics production facilities.
https://sciencebusiness.technewslit.com/?p=45058
#News #Press #Science #Business #Agriculture #Biotechnology #Collaboration #Biologics #MonoclonalAntibodies #Engineering #VerticalFarming #Tobacco #Automation #Algorithms #Italy #UK
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An #OpenSource framework for digital #agriculture ⬅️ interoperability is good; orchestration throughout #IoT #IIoT #SensorAnalyticsEcosystem #SensAE is better, also responding to #ClimateChange moving to #IntegratedAgriculture #VerticalFarming and use of #DigitalTwins should be consulted #IoTPL #IoTCL @IoTCommunity @iotpractitioner @IoTchannel @IoTslam https://medium.com/purdue-engineering/an-open-source-framework-for-digital-agriculture-8ff3885de46b
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New ways to feed ourselves,
#VerticalFarming #Hydroponics #Microponics #FoodForest
#CultivatedMeat #AltMeat #CulturedMeat
#KitchenRobotics #KitchenAutomationInformation should be free,
#OpenSource #OpenSourceMovement #HackerCulture #HackerEthics #CreativeCommons #FreeSoftware #Copyleft #FediverseAbolishing disease, aging, and the limits of our biology,
#Longevity #LifeExtension #Transhumanism #DemocraticTranshumanism #Extropianism #Biohacking #DIYBio #QuantifiedSelf6/8
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“We have zero pesticides, zero herbicides, we are spray free. It's as clean as you can possibly get without organic certification...
Any controlled agricultural environment is going to be using energy as an input cost, and probably the highest cost.'”
#GrantLeach, CEO, #26Seasons
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Indoor farming company Bowery raises $300M - New York City-based vertical farming startup Bowery Farming this week has announce... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/gihBvOmmSiU/ #fidelitymanagement&researchcompany #verticalfarming #recentfunding #boweryfarming #indoorfarming #startups #funding #farming #food #gv
