Blog Posts - Sustainable Agriculture



Abandoning Malls For Vertical Farms

Free vertical farming newsletter here Time magazine once described malls as “pleasure domes with parking.” Malls in general, and strip malls in particular, are ubiquitous in suburban America. Built in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, during...
by Pro Vertical Farm on Aug 22, 2016

A warning to farmers about “CSAs”

Our free vertical farming newsletter gives you behind-the-scenes insight to our real world farming projects. Don’t miss out. Sign up here. Sometimes distributors are helpful and we give middlemen a cut. But do not let those same middlemen profit...
by Pro Vertical Farm on Jul 21, 2016

Vertical Farm Village

Don’t want to miss out on the most important vertical farming news? Sign up for our free newsletter now! Ah another incident of designers failing to think things through. Or, at the very least, an article that was capped by a word count and unable...
by Pro Vertical Farm on May 23, 2016

New Study On Viability of Ethnic and Specialty Crops

Don’t want to miss out on the most important vertical farming news? Sign up for our free newsletter now! Rutgers University researchers are studying the viability of growing ethnic specialty crops in greenhouses and hoop houses for local and regio...
by Pro Vertical Farm on May 16, 2016

Unappreciated Advantages of Green Roofs

You know what’s great? Our free vertical farming newsletter. Sign up here. While a cityscape’s concrete slabs and dirty sheet metal blanket what was once vegetative abundance, green roofs inspire nature to strike back. Nestled across the urba...
by Pro Vertical Farm on Apr 27, 2016

Update at The Plant

Insiders get vertical farming updates sent straight to them. Lead the field, sign up for emails and exclusive content here. The Plant is one of the greatest monuments to the circular economy that we have. It’s amazing and an article from Greenb...
by Pro Vertical Farm on Mar 7, 2016

I rip this vertical farm critic to shreds

Let me start out by saying that this is actually one of the best critiques of vertical farming that’s out there. And I’m not surprised, the author, Stan Cox, works at the Land Institute, one of the most important groups for agricultural t...
by Pro Vertical Farm on Feb 18, 2016

Rich hipsters in urban farming and terminator crops as pest control in vertical farms

Get connected to the vertical farming content you want. Sign up to our email newsletter now! Two articles flew across my radar this Valentine’s Day and President’s Day weekend and I think you’ll find them pretty interesting. The fi...
by Pro Vertical Farm on Feb 16, 2016

2 Story Vertical Farm Packs Inside A Shipping Container

Sign up for our free private newsletter for the latest vertical farming analysis and news. The “Impact Farm” is a 2 story DIY vertical farm that packs into a shipping container. Designed by Human Habitat’s Ronnie Markussen and Mikke...
by Pro Vertical Farm on Feb 4, 2016

The First Certified Aquaponics Farm In Chicago: Does It Get Vertical?

Insiders get vertical farming updates sent straight to them. Lead the field, sign up for emails and exclusive content here. It’s a bit of a New Year’s chore going back through materials you saved over the past year. But sometimes, you str...
by Pro Vertical Farm on Jan 13, 2016

Vertical Farming Could Cut 20% off Global Emissions

Author Kyle Simpson is the founder of Local Loop Farms, a startup turning food waste into fresh food through integrated ecosystems inspired by nature. To get more great content from the Urban Vertical Project and partners like Kyle, sign up here! Kyl...
by Pro Vertical Farm on Dec 3, 2015

Vertical Farming Could Cut 20% of Global Emissions

Author Kyle Simpson is the founder of Local Loop Farms, a startup turning food waste into fresh food through integrated ecosystems inspired by nature. To get more great content from the Urban Vertical Project and partners like Kyle, sign up here! Kyl...
by Pro Vertical Farm on Dec 3, 2015

Underwater Vertical Seaweed Farm

Get connected to the vertical farming content you want. Sign up to our email newsletter now! My friend Cole Mellino over at Eco Watch did some great writing about another type of vertical farm. More along the lines of vertical farming in something l...
by Pro Vertical Farm on Nov 25, 2015

Multifunctional Greenhouse in Ethiopia

Insider vertical farming content for when you seriously want to step your game up. We just sent out discounts for a hyped hydroponics workshop, so sign up now to see what might come next. I came across this super interesting development project and...
by Pro Vertical Farm on Sep 12, 2015

Multifunctional Greenhouse in Ethipia

Insider vertical farming content for when you seriously want to step your game up. We just sent out discounts for a hyped hydroponics workshop, so sign up now to see what might come next. I came across this super interesting development project and...
by Pro Vertical Farm on Sep 12, 2015

Simple Secrets To Start A Vertical Farm

Insiders get vertical farming updates sent straight to them. Lead the field, sign up for emails and exclusive content here. Talking to people just like you, it’s clear that the first step is always the hardest on the road to building a vertical far...
by Pro Vertical Farm on Sep 1, 2015

Virtual Vertical Farming (and we’re not talking about the internet of food)

Exclusive vertical farming content delivered straight to you? Sign up here. What do vertical farms have to do with video games? Maybe not too much, but there is one new tantalizing little crossover that has me excited, and I don’t even play vi...
by Pro Vertical Farm on Aug 13, 2015

Vertical Farming at Burning Man

I mentioned this in a tweet, but there is a cool new vertical farming project named Isabel that’s traveling to Burning Man. A group of Silicone Valley-type dudes are putting together a project to showcase the potential resiliency of vertical fa...
by Pro Vertical Farm on Jul 30, 2015

Vertical Succulent Gardens

Don’t want to miss out on the most important vertical farming news? Sign up for our free newsletter now! Succulents are one of the easiest plants to create a small-scale green wall with. I’ve pulled together some of the best info on succulents an...
by Pro Vertical Farm on Jul 21, 2015

Fresh Water Greens: A Hydroponic Success Story

Don’t want to miss out on the most important vertical farming news? Sign up for our free newsletter now! With over 100 years of farming experience, when the Villari family decides to take us behind the curtain of their hydroponic business, you know...
by Pro Vertical Farm on Jul 6, 2015


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