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Farms That Rise to the Challenge

May 17, 2016 By: Conrad De Aenlle It is a staggering challenge: feeding the seven billion-plus people in the world and delivering fresh food to the rapidly rising number of them who live in cities. One solution, more theoretical than practical so far, amounts to killing two birds with one stone and adding a third …

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Old Tech Meets New Tech at NJIT

May 5, 2016 The Bloomberg Advantage with Carol Massar and Cory Johnson. A discussion of the business of technology, from both traditional and new companies, including innnovations and opportunities throughout the tech space. Guests include Joe Taylor, CEO of Panasonic Corporation of North America, David Rosenberg, Co-Founder and CEO at AeroFarms, Tom Wisniewski, Managing Partner

Inside The High-Tech Farm Growing Kale In An Old Paintball Arena

April 26, 2016 By: Alexander C. Kaufman NEWARK, New Jersey — David Rosenberg is trying to build an agricultural empire out of an old paintball arena in a blighted urban neighborhood about 45 minutes outside Manhattan. Needless to say, Rosenberg, the chief executive of Aerofarms, an indoor farming startup growing organic leafy greens without sunlight

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AeroFarms Is On A Mission to Transform Agriculture

The Huffington Post crafted an exciting piece about AeroFarms, highlighting our mission to combat the global food crisis through indoor vertical farming at scale in cities all over the world.  This video features one of our sites in Newark, New Jersey, a former paintball entertainment center turned vertical farm growing nutritious baby greens and herbs. Watch it here.

First Lady Michelle Obama took her garden tour to our home of Newark, where she visited our favorite youngest AeroFarmers – the students of Philips Academy Charter School. The school has a rooftop garden as well as an AeroFarms growing lab where they learn how their food is grown and gain a more tangible connection to the importance of fresh, healthy food.

Michelle Obama Meets our Youngest AeroFarmers

On April 7 First Lady Michelle Obama took her garden tour to our home of Newark, where she visited our youngest AeroFarmers – the students of Philips Academy Charter School. The school has a rooftop garden as well as an AeroFarms growing lab where they learn how their food is grown and gain a more tangible

Governor Chris Christie Visits AeroFarms

On Thursday, March 24th, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie came to our Newark farm to celebrate our success in creating local jobs and contributing to positive employment trends in the state. The Governor met with AeroFarms leadership and tasted some of our greens before a short speech and press conference on our growing floor. Here’s

How to Support AeroFarms Mission to Transform Agriculture

People are always asking what they can do to get involved with our mission of transforming agriculture at home and all around the world. There are so many ways to grow with us! Buy our greens, join our team, or just share our story on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. There’s no wrong way to  #JoinAeroFarms

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Inside the World’s Largest Vertical Farm

March 15, 2016 By: Leanna Garfield Picture a vegetable farm, and you might imagine growers digging through dirt and planting rows of seeds. Besides the occasional spray of pesticide and pH check, all the plants need are sunlight, fertilizer, and water. Aerofarms, a vertical farm in Newark, New Jersey, is nothing like that. Instead of

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Will Urban Agriculture Last?

March 11, 2016 By: Adele Peters Urban farming keeps growing: it’s now possible to buy your hyper-local lettuce from flatpack shipping container farms, hydroponic kits attached to unused wall space, old-fashioned community gardens, and state-of-the-art vertical farms run by robots. But a new study raises a question—is growing food in cities a passing trend, or

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