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EAT Club Goes Mobile, Bringing A Food Truck With Mobile Ordering And Payment To San Francisco | TechCrunch

EAT Club Goes Mobile, Bringing A Food Truck With Mobile Ordering And Payment To San Francisco | TechCrunch | Vertical Farm - Food Factory | Scoop.it
EAT Club, which is launching in private beta today, has a unique spin on the way that users get lunch.
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A Green Wall in Silicon Valley

A Green Wall in Silicon Valley | Vertical Farm - Food Factory | Scoop.it
Bay Meadows, billed as a "progressive new urban village," is starting to take shape in San Mateo, south of San Francisco. (RT @meredithnadine: I hope green walls are the new 'in thing', I just love them!
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Going REALLY green: World's first bio-building powered by ALGAE opens in Hamburg

Going REALLY green: World's first bio-building powered by ALGAE opens in Hamburg | Vertical Farm - Food Factory | Scoop.it
Spanish company, Arup, is piloting a new form of green building which uses algae to generate biomass and heat as a renewable energy source. (Urban Reforestation
The future in sustainable urban design!
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Boston grows regs for urban agriculturalists - Boston Herald

Boston grows regs for urban agriculturalists - Boston Herald | Vertical Farm - Food Factory | Scoop.it
Boston grows regs for urban agriculturalists Boston Herald New rules for farming in the middle of Boston — intended to expand urban agriculture while bringing some order to burgeoning inner-city bucolicism — are going up for public review and...
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Back to the Roots – Mushrooms and Aquaponics - Washington Times

Back to the Roots – Mushrooms and Aquaponics - Washington Times | Vertical Farm - Food Factory | Scoop.it
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Back to the Roots – Mushrooms and Aquaponics
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Also exhibited was the Aquaponics Garden, a self-sustaining system in which fish feed on plants as the plants clean and filter the fish tank water.
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GardenTower Vertical Growing Systems

GardenTower Vertical Growing Systems | Vertical Farm - Food Factory | Scoop.it
The  Garden Tower  is a revolutionary self-contained vertical garden / composting system capable of transforming home gardening, urban gardening, and making a difference. Garden Tower Project  is...
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Urbaform is now highlighting an incredible vertical tower design that utilizes worms to create the growing nutrients ... great design and alternative design using worms to process your food waste to support healthy new plants ...

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Green Walls Training in NYC - 6/26/13

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A powerful use for spoiled food

A powerful use for spoiled food | Vertical Farm - Food Factory | Scoop.it
What happens to the 40% of food produced but never eaten in the U.S. each year, the mounds of perfect fruit passed over by grocery store shoppers, the tons of meat and milk left to expire? (What a great use for spoiled food.
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Blog

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Wow ...  3 days out and almost 100% germination ... they must like it up here.  Fine roots are appearing on most plants and heights approaching 1" seems common.   Tomorrow will be the day we open...
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one more day in the darkness ... before we turn this into a green mat ...

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LEDs in greenhouses deliver same yield as grow lights, using just 25% of the energy

LEDs in greenhouses deliver same yield as grow lights, using just 25% of the energy | Vertical Farm - Food Factory | Scoop.it
Using LED lighting instead of traditional high pressure sodium lights to grow tomatoes in greenhouses during the winter could cut costs and boost local food production.
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Astrogarden Rover: How Can We Design a Garden for Mars? | Environment on GOOD

Astrogarden Rover: How Can We Design a Garden for Mars? | Environment on GOOD | Vertical Farm - Food Factory | Scoop.it
With incredible advances in space exploration, the idea of harvesting crops and planting gardens in space is leaving the realm of science fiction and becoming a reality. Research in astrobiology, a.k.a.
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Urbaform Technologies

Urbaform Technologies | Vertical Farm - Food Factory | Scoop.it
Using technology to transform food production in the urban environment ...
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for those who haven't visited lately, here is our newly designed website ...

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Urban farm proposal for ex-CSIRO site - ABC Online

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Urban farm proposal for ex-CSIRO site
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Howard Nielsen, one of the people behind the Samford Futures project, wants to develop an urban farming centre with up to six hectares of production.
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AECOM - Design + Planning - Practice Areas - Landscape Architecture - Living Wall at Westfield Shopping Centre

AECOM - Design + Planning - Practice Areas - Landscape Architecture - Living Wall at Westfield Shopping Centre | Vertical Farm - Food Factory | Scoop.it
On Westfield London’s opening day, more than 150,000 shoppers flocked to see Europe’s largest inner-city retail complex: 17.5 hectares with almost 280 shops, 50 restaurants and a 14-screen cinema.
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Nevada Indoor Agriculture Conference | Celebrat...

Nevada Indoor Agriculture Conference | Celebrat... | Vertical Farm - Food Factory | Scoop.it
Rick Passo's insight: http://indooragnv.com/ On April 24, 2013, Seedstock, the Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development, and Nicola Kerslake of Real Assets Junkie co-hosted the inaugural Nevada Indoor Agriculture Conference at the Historic...
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Urban farming at Muir Ranch on John Muir High School campus - Pasadena Star-News

Urban farming at Muir Ranch on John Muir High School campus - Pasadena Star-News | Vertical Farm - Food Factory | Scoop.it
Urban farming at Muir Ranch on John Muir High School campus
Pasadena Star-News
Muir Ranch, is trying to reduce food waste through two acres of urban farm at John Muir High School in Pasadena Tuesday, May 21, 2013.
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Garden Tower - Urbaform Technologies

Garden Tower - Urbaform Technologies | Vertical Farm - Food Factory | Scoop.it
Using technology to transform food production in the urban environment ...
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see our new offering of Garden Towers that combine media based vertical growing and vermicomposting ... vermiponic vertical system that is completely off grid ...

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Vertical 'Pinkhouses:' The Future Of Urban Farming? : NPR

Vertical 'Pinkhouses:' The Future Of Urban Farming? : NPR | Vertical Farm - Food Factory | Scoop.it
Architects have come up with spectacular concepts for vertical farms that would grow crops in city skyscrapers.
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Day 4 - emerging from the dark

Day 4 - emerging from the dark | Vertical Farm - Food Factory | Scoop.it
The sprouts are now ready to emerge and see the light ...  growth on the tallest of sprouts is to the top of the tray which means approx 2" high.  Kinda like we humans, the plants now need to get...
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the first crop is now ready to face the light ... 

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Mediterranean diet seems to boost aging brain power

Mediterranean diet seems to boost aging brain power | Vertical Farm - Food Factory | Scoop.it
A Mediterranean diet with added extra virgin olive oil or mixed nuts seems to improve the brain power of older people better than advising them to follow a low-fat diet, according to new research.
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Compound in Mediterranean diet makes cancer cells 'mortal'

Compound in Mediterranean diet makes cancer cells 'mortal' | Vertical Farm - Food Factory | Scoop.it
New research suggests that a compound abundant in the Mediterranean diet takes away cancer cells' "superpower" to escape death.
Marilou Nicart's curator insight, May 21, 6:06 AM

Read more about Spanish ketogenic meditteranean diet and read the full paper that reveals significant points of the research. 

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Seamless and GrubHub are merging to form a giant food delivery service

Seamless and GrubHub are merging to form a giant food delivery service | Vertical Farm - Food Factory | Scoop.it
Seamless and GrubHub, two of the biggest food delivery services in the US, have just announced they'll be merging into a combined company, with the name
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Why we need to put the fish back into fisheries

Why we need to put the fish back into fisheries | Vertical Farm - Food Factory | Scoop.it
Overfishing has reduced fish populations and biodiversity across much of the world’s oceans. In response, fisheries are increasingly reliant on a handful of highly valuable shellfish. However, new research shows this approach to be extremely risky.
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How to Farm Fish in the Nevada Desert

How to Farm Fish in the Nevada Desert | Vertical Farm - Food Factory | Scoop.it
Nevada is trying to grow more food locally, using hydroponics, greenhouses, and other indoor-farming techniques

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Microgreen Starter Kit

Microgreen Starter Kit | Vertical Farm - Food Factory | Scoop.it
Microgreens  - a product and growing process that anyone can do AND everyone should eat ... Urbaform has been searching for kit that will allow an entry point for all who have interest in this...
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have been looking for a kit to grow highly nutritious and tasty microgreens for a long time ... Urban Hydro Greens has partnered with Urbaform to offer a home kit to introduce people to growing and consuming these incredibly nutritious addition to any diet ...  check it out !!!

Rick Passo's comment, May 19, 9:45 PM
http://microgreen.weebly.com/microgreen-kit-blog.html … follow #microgreen #healthy growth progress; order athttp://microgreen.weebly.com/the-kit.html via @urbaform &https://www.facebook.com/UrbanHydroGreens
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http://microgreen.weebly.com/microgreen-kit-blog.html ;… follow #microgreen #healthy growth progress; order at

http://microgreen.weebly.com/the-kit.html via @urbaform &

https://www.facebook.com/UrbanHydroGreens ;…


http://microgreen.weebly.com/index.html
Microgreens - a product and growing process that anyone can do AND everyone should eat ... Urbaform has been searching for kit that will allow an entry point for all who have interest in this fascinating area of home growing. We have teamed with our partner, Urban Hydro Greens of Las Vegas to offer a unique product that takes you through all the steps to successfully grow many types of microgreens in your home. We offer a commerical unit that can produce multiple pounds of microgreens daily, but in train and experience growers we offer this kit as a stepping stone to growing commercially or a source for your own supply of home grown goodness.

Rick Passo's comment, May 19, 10:05 PM
watch the educational video at http://youtu.be/blBwFvAghTs