Starting 2021 Off with 3 Prestigious Industry Awards BIG INNOVATION AWARDS AeroFarms receives the prestigious annual BIG Innovation Award honor! AeroFarms is awarded this honor in the Technology category and is the only agtech/agriculture company to make this distinguished list of awardees. The BIG Innovation Awards recognize those organizations and people who bring new …
Lettuce is the third most consumed vegetable in the US. However, as a perishable product, much of the produce is not marketable because lettuce leaves discolor after harvest. In fact, 46 percent of head lettuce and 55 percent of fresh romaine and leaf lettuce is wasted. The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) is
July 6, 2016 By: Sierra Tishgart Urban indoor farming has gained serious traction in America this year, thanks to AeroFarms in Newark, New Jersey. Because of its innovative root-misting system, the company can use 95 percent less water than a field farm, and no pesticides, herbicides, or soil. (LED lighting replaces the sun, further reducing
AeroFarms is proud to support the new FarmPlus to People program, an innovative partnership with Matriark Foods and Table to Table to upcycle farm surplus into a healthy, added-value vegetable stew for distribution to the hungry in New Jersey.
Jersey City Mayor, Steven M. Fulop, announced this week that the City of Jersey City will be moving forward with the 1st in the nation municipal vertical farming program in conjunction with AeroFarms and World Economic Forum, who recently selected Jersey City as their first partner in the Healthy Cities and Communities 2030 Initiatives. “The
We are thrilled to share that we have been named to Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas for the THIRD year in a row! AeroFarms placed in four categories – as a Finalist in the General Excellence and AI & Data categories, and an Honorable Mention in the Food and Spaces, Places & Cities categories.
AeroFarms to build in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, a 90,000 square foot indoor vertical farm that will be the world’s largest of its kind.
BY PAUL BRADY | FEBRUARY 14, 2020 On an industrial block in Newark, New Jersey, behind the cement and brick Ironbound Recreation Center, there’s some magic happening. Inside a nondescript warehouse, sprouts are thriving under banks of LED lamps: kale, bok choy, arugula, tiny little plants only a horticulturalist could identify. Rows and rows and towers
Newark, New Jersey | February 21, 2020 By Anne Quito A cavernous warehouse in Newark, New Jersey is not where you’d expect to find a thriving vegetable farm. Stacks and stacks of light boxes are connected to digital sensors. There’s no soil, no honeybees, no whiff of compost. But this is the typical scene inside
Feb. 19, 2020 Andrew Zimmern meets with entrepreneurs creating a ‘farm of the future’ where fresh vegetables are grown in laboratory-like conditions on cloth instead of soil and need a lot less water to thrive.
