New Study Reveals How Crucial Urban Farming Is To Food Security
2 minute read When most of us think of farming, we tend to picture wide-open fields of swaying wheat, or neat rows of …
Vertical Farming
Are indoor vertical farms really ‘future-proofing agriculture’?
7 minute read Heralded as the next step in food production, this practice is gaining ground in the US. But are they really …
UK innovation centre to help boost produce grown on Europe’s largest vertical farm
3 minute read As the increasing cost of living affects more households across Britain, people are paying more attention to where they get their basic …
Taste of the future? Vertical farming is finally growing up in the UK
3 minute read Vertical farms promise to boost food security, reduce emissions and do away with fertilisers – and they are springing up …
Innovation Agri-Tech Group & University of Essex Secure Funding to Create £3.5 million Facility
3 minute read The major funding boost will be used to create a state-of-the-art indoor crop growth facility to explore how to future-proof …
Innovation Agri-Tech Group Appoints Global Sales Team To Transition Business To Revenue
2 minute read Agricultural technology company, Innovation Agri-Tech Group (‘IAG’), has appointed an experienced sales team as the business heads out of R&D phase and …
Robotics, artificial intelligence and advanced agriculture are changing the way we produce food!
4 minute read From commonsense sustainable practices to idiocentric genome-specific personalisations, to robotic kitchens, to cellular agriculture, food systems in the future will …
Could vertical farms be the answer to ending soft fruit and herb imports to UK?
3 minute read ‘It won’t be long in the future that it will become unacceptable to air-freight fresh herbs into the country,’ said …
£11.4m innovation centre aims to fire Norfolk up the food rankings
3 minute read An £11.4m project is taking shape outside Norwich which aims to fulfil the potential of East Anglia’s food and drink …
OneFarm unveils plans for its first UK vertical farm installation
3 minute read Sustainable food producer OneFarm has announced its plans to deliver a 6,400m2 vertical farm in Newmarket, Suffolk, capable of growing up to 415 …
British strawberry season could be year round with vertical farming
2 minute read Berry Gardens, the UK’s largest supplier of berries and cherries, and Jones Food Company, owner of Europe’s largest indoor vertical …
Nottingham Trent University to address global food challenges
2 minute read A next-generation vertical farming system is being developed in Southwell, which will address global food challenges by using hi-tech growing …
World’s largest vertical farm to deliver leafy greens to UK supermarkets
2 minute read Four acre site set to produce as much veg as 1,000 acres of traditional British farmland, after Fischer Farms secures …
Discolls and Plenty to develop exclusive strawberry indoor vertical farm
2 minute read One year after announcing their joint research and development work to grow strawberries indoors, Driscoll’s, the leading consumer brand in fresh …
One of the UK’s largest vertical farms to be created in Suffolk warehouse
2 minute read OneFarm plans to create one of the largest vertical farms in the UK at Newmarket Business Park. The first phase …
Start-up to launch one of UK’s biggest vertical farms in London next year
2 minute read One of the UK’s largest vertical farms could be launched in London next year by a business which supplies basil grown in a Leyton warehouse. …
£500k boost for indoor crop tech that could help UK become more self-sufficient in food
2 minute read A Derbyshire firm which makes technology to improve indoor crop yields has received £500,000 to develop a new type of …
New sustainable salad is being grown in urban shipping containers by a member of the Sainsbury’s dynasty
4 minute read Each batch of 600 lettuces needs only the equivalent of a household dishwasher’s worth of water. round the corner from …