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Doug Swarts

What the Organic Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know

We’re sure you heard a joke about millennials and avocado toast once or twice. If you’re under 30 its the kind of thing that gets your eyes rolling. But pretty much everyone in America will have noticed the availability of organic produce and everyone will have some kind of opinion about it. And this isn’t restricted to your stereotypes about the younger generation either! The overarching assumption is that organic produce is healthier, cleaner, greener, grown with chemicals or even pesticide-free.  We’re not here to “debunk” anything or somehow prove organic food is “bad”. You need to make your own......

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Future of Food Security Through Indoor and Vertical Farms

This Is Where The Food Of The Future Will Come From

Food security has never been more important. Our food supply chain is reliant on being able to grow, process and transport thousands of miles and if any part of the chain should break the consequences can be very serious. With the world’s growing population expected to exceed 9 billion by 2050, the U.S. Department of Agriculture sees indoor vertical farms as having potential in addressing food security. They require less labor, take less space, require less transport and food can be grown year-round. The Business of Vertical Farming Indoor vertical farms are expanding across the country. It’s still a startup......

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Farming Indoors - New Technology in Shipping Containers

Why Farming Is Moving Indoors

Indoor farming will be the next big thing. A revolution in how we grow food, moving the entire agricultural process indoors and even into the city. “Agtech” is a mixture of not only agricultural know-how but also architecture and technology so that the process of growing and consuming food is more aligned with how we actually live. The technology allows more to produce with less space and less resource. For example, it can take as many as 34 gallons to produce a head of lettuce, but there are indoor farmers who already claim to use only .25 gallon. Show me......

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Vertical Farming Upgrading the Agriculture Technology
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How Vertical Farming Reinvents Agriculture

Across the world in sealed shipping container and labs, revolutions are being plotted. This sounds like a James Bond movie but it’s happening for real and (this time) the revolutionaries are on our side! What’s the aim? Only the oldest, most-established industry in the world: farming. The basic elements have been the same for thousands of years and are so familiar most people won’t even think about the assumptions - farming is an activity where crops are grown outside in dirt and plants grow with sunlight and rain and are harvested once a year, right? The future of farming is......

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Vertical Farming - A Solution to World Food Crisis

Is Vertical farming the Solution to the World’s Food Crisis?

Our world is changing. Food travels thousands of miles to our plates. We are short on space, energy and freshwater. And yet there are more people and more and more of us are eating unhealthily. Across the world obesity is a pandemic disease. Vertical farming could be the solution. Put simply, vertical farming is the practice of growing crops in vertically stacked layers. By its nature, it's usually an indoor technique and vertical farms can be set up in aircraft hangars, warehouses, shipping containers, tunnels, abandoned mine shafts, even abandoned subway stations! It usually involves growing plants in artificial light......

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How Hydroponic Container Farming Solve America’s E Coli Problems

It might look like hydroponic and farmers and container farm builders spend a lot of time focussing on the hygiene and cleanliness of the produce. The reason for this is food hygiene is a serious issue, even in the USA in 2020. It might sound unbelievable but the last multistate E Coli outbreak in the US had 167 victims. Thankfully there were no fatalities but 85 people were hospitalized in all. Fifteen people also had developed a type of kidney failure, according to the C.D.C. Many may brush off E Coli has little more than a stomach upset but the......

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Umami Taste on Organic Plants Farmed in Indoor Containers

Taste and Flavor: Some Ideas You Need to Understand

Sour, sweet, salt and bitter. Everyone knows the basic favours. But suppose there were more flavors? And suppose what contributed to the food on your plate was made up of a whole armory of other senses and feelings: texture, appearance, aroma, flavor culminating in a holistic experience that can be simultaneously jarring and pleasurable. Since taste is so multi-faceted, here are a few taste-centric words to savor! If you want more, most flavor scientists and tasters use flavor wheels which give a massive array of words and descriptions. It’s well known that the language of wine is ornate and flowery......

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Farms of the Future: Indoor Farming

Indoor Farming: How Will It Change the Way You Buy and Eat?

For thousands of years, farming has been an industry which has faced challenges and met them. In ancient Sumeria farmers learned civil engineering to irrigate the desert and grow more food where water couldn’t reach. Crop rotation, the development of the plough, motorised tractors, even the development of transport systems for heavy loads have all created seismic changes. Our food supply has now been adapted to feed the world- it’s a global industry where corn, apples, meat even drinking water may travel thousands of miles from source to customer. But even after 10,000 years of development, the next revolution may......

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Safe Vegetable and Fruits Produce from Indoor Farming

Changing the Way the World Eats Through Indoor Farming

We’ve all been there. We try to be healthy and eat well so we pick up some fruit and vegetables from the supermarket. When we get home we find the apples are tasteless. Peaches are green and hard. Tomatoes seem to be a way of holding water rather than something to spruce up a salad. Clearly, the produce available isn’t always the best produce… but is it the best we can do?JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwd2lkdGglM0QlMjI1NjAlMjIlMjBoZWlnaHQlM0QlMjIxNTAlMjIlMjBzcmMlM0QlMjJodHRwcyUzQSUyRiUyRnd3dy55b3V0dWJlLmNvbSUyRmVtYmVkJTJGQW1aQXBTRWQ3SmMlMjIlMjBmcmFtZWJvcmRlciUzRCUyMjAlMjIlMjBhbGxvdyUzRCUyMmFjY2VsZXJvbWV0ZXIlM0IlMjBhdXRvcGxheSUzQiUyMGVuY3J5cHRlZC1tZWRpYSUzQiUyMGd5cm9zY29wZSUzQiUyMHBpY3R1cmUtaW4tcGljdHVyZSUyMiUyMGFsbG93ZnVsbHNjcmVlbiUzRSUzQyUyRmlmcmFtZSUzRQ== Has It always Been Safe and Healthy Like This? If you live in a city then, yes, it’s likely its always been like this. In fact, you have......

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Container Organic Farming

Why Eating Local is Best

The Future is Growing Locally So you’ve made the big step. You’ve decided that buying locally grown food is best or you and your family. But do you realize how it also benefits your local community and your environment? It's not just better for you, it's better for everyone. As one of the top vertical farm companies in America we’ve learned loads about the benefits of container farms and how they can enable hyper-local food. Transporting food literally thousands of miles burns tons of gas, and is highly polluting but by buying locally you are boosting your local community's health......

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