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 …
The Vertical Farm: Growing crops in the city, without soil or natural light Read More
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 in …
PBS Newshour Student Reporting Labs Covers AeroFarms Read More
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 …
AeroFarms on iTech: Farming with No Soil & Sunlight Read More
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.
March 3, 2017 By: Venessa Wong Farming, even in its modern, hyper-industrialized form, still relies on some very old-school technology: the sun, dirt, seasons, tractors. It’s all a bit messy and inefficient, at least by the standards of modern technologists, who are more accustomed to server farms that churn through data 24/7. It’s not …
Inside The Computerized Lettuce Factory Of The Future Read More
AeroFarms published a new story on Medium.com. Read a teaser here or see the full story at www.Medium.com. Seventy percent of global water resources go toward agriculture. Seventy percent of fresh water contamination comes from agriculture. Sit with that a moment. Conventional irrigation in Salinas Valley, CA This incredible statistic is what drove David Rosenberg, Chief Executive Officer …
Solving water: the first step is admitting we have a problem Read More
