It’s not agriculture the way most of us think of it: A farmer on a tractor plowing up the soil or a crew of farmworkers harvesting a crop. How could it be? Karim Giscombe, founder and CEO of PLANT-AG, sees the food system as so broken that the only way
Continue Reading Focusing in on the details of the food revolution that is on its way
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“We are farmers who live in apartments.” Thus begins an introduction to Gotham Greens, a large U.S. greenhouse farm.
Continue Reading Food safety helped spur dream of greenhouses on urban rooftops
Federal Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler is a former assistant U.S. attorney who spent much of her career as a top prosecutor for major federal crimes. Her latest assignment as Magistrate for the U.S. District Court for Northern California is to decide if the soil must be used to grow organic
Continue Reading Organic growers say it is in their economic interest to stay grounded in soil
An indoor agricultural evolution is in the making. That’s how some people see the surge of interest in growing leafy greens in greenhouses. No doubt about it, this approach to farming has increased dramatically in every corner of the country, even the South.
Not surprisingly, food safety has been one
Continue Reading Safety aspects of indoor farming signal a change in agriculture
Urban greenhouse grower BrightFarms Inc. of New York City is recalling an undisclosed volume of packaged salad greens and herbs because they may be contaminated with pieces of
Continue Reading BrightFarms recalls leafy greens, herbs because of metal pieces
Food safety is a key pillar of the greenhouse operations for each grower. Any type of food safety risk impacts not only the grower operations, but our competitors, and most importantly, consumers. 
Modern high-tech greenhouses don’t use dirt, protect produce from animals and birds, and somewhat
Continue Reading Greenhouse innovations have drastically improved food safety
