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Los Angeles startup Local Roots retrofits 40-foot-long shipping containers, turning them into "TerraFarms" that yield as many leafy greens as five acres of farmland-only faster, using as little as 1 percent of the water. The company leases TerraFarms to wholesalers, restaurant chains, and SpaceX. The United Nations is preparing to field-test them, too.

These Shipping Containers Have Farms...

Added by Francis Tseng
Updated 3 days ago

The biggest issue for industrial agriculture is that growing the massive amounts of food we currently need also involves using amounts of energy and creating massive amounts of pollution. Much of those negative outputs come in the form of nitrogen-based synthetic fertilizers, which are created by converting nitrogen from the air into a spreadable material through a process that's inefficient and creates greenhouse gases.

A New Custom Plant Microbiome Could...

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11 days ago

When Kenyan farmers need to know whether to take their cows to the vet, they can now just ask their phones. Using a popular new service called DigiFarm, they can use their phones to get simple information that will let them determine if their cow is infected with mastitis (a common disease), and find out whether they can treat the problem themselves or whether they need professional help.

This Agricultural Guide On A Phone...

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11 days ago

Square Roots is an urban farming and entrepreneurship platform-powered by community, technology, and a love for local, real food.

Square Roots

Added by hunor karamán
Updated 14 days ago

How on earth would you feed a city of over 200,000 people when the land around you was a swampy lake? Seems like an impossible task, but the Aztec managed it by creating floating gardens known as chinampas, then they farmed them intensively.

Aztecs: Gardens in the lake

Added by Francis Tseng
Updated 16 days ago

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