Urban Agriculture

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Dickson and Vincent review recent developments in indoor farming, and catch up with the backlog of listener questions and comments.

• Roots of organic farming on campus (NY Times)
• Green Sense Farms in China (NWI)
• Image credit
• Letters read on UrbAg 19

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Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Caleb Harper

Dickson and Vincent speak with Caleb Harper about the Open Agriculture initiative at the MIT Media Lab.

• CityFARM
• MIT Media Lab
• Growing data will be hosted at openag.mit.edu (not yet live)
• Caliber Biotherapeutics
• Caleb Harper on Twitter, Instagram
• MIT Open Agriculture on Twitter

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Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Dickson and Vincent review recent entrants into the growing discipline of urban agriculture.

• Greener Roots
• Urban Produce
• US Pavilion Milan Expo 2015
• TruLeaf
• Ray Kurzweil on Vertical Farming
• 10 Mile Farms
• Seoul adopts urban agriculture
• Green Sense Farms
• Lufa Farms
• Image credit

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Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Penny McBride and Nona Yehia

Dickson and Vincent speak with the founders of Vertical Harvest, an indoor farm in Jackson, Wyoming.

• Vertical Harvest
• Vertical Harvest before (jpg)
• Vertical Harvest video (view at YouTube)

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Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Ed Harwood and Mark Oshima

Dickson and Vincent visit AeroFarms, an indoor farm in Newark, NJ and speak with Chief Science Officer Ed Harwood and Chief Marketing Officer Mark Oshima.

• AeroFarms
• AeroFarms in NY Times
• Photogallery

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Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Henry Gordon-Smith

Dickson and Vincent meet with Henry Gordon-Smith, founder of Agritecture and board member of the Association for Vertical Farming.

• Agritecture
• Association for Vertical Farming
• Blue Planet Environmental
• Henry's Bronx model vertical farm
• AeroFarms
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• Mirai Co. Japan
• Letters read on UrbAg 14

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Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Dan Albert

Dickson and Vincent talk with Dan Albert, founder of Farmbox Greens, a commercial urban farm in Seattle, Washington.

• Eco-Laboratory
• Farmbox Greens video (YouTube)
• Buy Farmbox Greens (Marx Foods)
• John Todd (Wikipedia)
• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
• Image credit: Marx Foods
• FarmedHere story at Business Insider

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Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Paul Hardej

Dickson and Vincent speak with Paul Hardej, founder of Farmed Here, a commercial vertical farm in Chicago, Illinois.

• FarmedHere
• FarmedHere opening (YouTube)
• FarmedHere story at Business Insider
• Video of this episode - view at YouTube

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Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Chris Hammelef and Paul Grey

Dickson and Vincent speak with Chris and Paul of Illumitex to learn about their revolutionary approach to designing horticultural LED lighting.

• Illumitex
• LED (Wikipedia)
• Photosynthesis (Wikipedia)
• Illumitex horticultural LED products
• Image credit: Illumitex

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Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Dickson and Vincent read listener email about urban agriculture, hydroponics, aquaponics, underground vertical farms, climate change, and more.

• Quinoa
• Asparagus
• Letters read on UrbAg 10

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