May 13, 2017 By David O’Reilly Camden is not what people think of when they read “Garden State” on New Jersey license plates. But that could change this year, when a 78,000-square-foot, warehouse-style building starts to rise in a weed-strewn field in the 1500 block of Broadway. By 2018, if all goes according to …
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May 9, 2017 By: Shelby Vittek Newark has a new growth industry—literally. AeroFarms, an indoor agriculture company, moved to the Brick City from upstate New York in 2015. In April, it expanded into a new facility, the company’s ninth farm and its new global headquarters, repurposing what used to be a steel mill on Rome
January 2, 2017 By: Ian Frazier No. 212 Rome Street, in Newark, New Jersey, used to be the address of Grammer, Dempsey & Hudson, a steel-supply company. It was like a lumberyard for steel, which it bought in bulk from distant mills and distributed in smaller amounts, mostly to customers within a hundred-mile radius of
One year ago, a group of student journalists visited one of our Newark farms to film a news segment for the PBS Newshour Student Reporting Lab and the story is out! It is an especially exciting new piece for us because some of the students who produced it have also tended the AeroFarms growing tower
April 24, 2017 A special episode of “iTechShow” hosted & produced by Toufic Gebran featuring AeroFarms in Newark city, New Jersey – The world’s largest vertical farm planting in indoor growing towers with no sun, no soil and no water just with light, air, and mist of water. Interviewing AeroFarms CEO David Rosenberg and Co-Founder
April 23, 2017 AeroFarms was featured on Channel 2 in the Netherlands on Backlight, a long running documentary series by VPRO television that offers in-depth “future affairs” stories. Watch the full video here.
AeroFarms was featured in a Columbia Business School Ideas & Insights article about the many alumni working to feed the 9 billion people expected to inhabit the earth by 2050. The AeroFarms section is below. Read the entire article at www.gsb.columbia.edu. Soil-free Farming April 18, 2017 By: Autumn Spanne When we think of agriculture, we naturally
April 11, 2017 By: Alyssa Bereznak The future of agriculture is happening in cities. After years of experimentation, Silicon Valley may finally be making urban farming viable. But will residents be able to afford the crop? The town of Kearny, New Jersey, is a small industrial desert, populated by warehouses, factories, and twisting freeways filled with
April 6, 2017 By: Chris Baranuik In an old carpet factory on the outskirts of the Belgian city of Kortrijk, an agricultural upheaval is being plotted: growing crops indoors, not out on a farm, stacked layer after layer under candy-coloured lights in an area the size of a studio flat. It’s called vertical farming, and
April 3, 2017 Vanessa Tyler reports on the new AeroFarms that have been developing in Newark as a means of agriculture.
