Industry Struggles, Reurbanization, and Vertical Farming Weekly 3.0

Hello once again to all you Vertical Farming Podcast fanatics!

Welcome to Vertical Farming Weekly 3.0. We've been working behind the scenes on moving to a new platform yet again so we can deliver the highest quality newsletter possible right to your inbox. We've come a long way since our initial relaunch in February and we're really excited to have access to a bunch of new tools that will allow us to not only improve now, but for the foreseeable future.

Now, back to your semi-regularly scheduled content.

This Week in CEA...

The CEA Wars: End of The Beginning?

High Tech Farmer AppHarvest is Rapidly Running Out of Money

The industry responds to Infarm news

Column: Why Vertical Farming Stocks are Struggling

A letter from Israel: Ecosystem-defining culture and the positive role of government

Reurbanization: It's time to make cities more rural

[SA] The Western Cape's first retail urban rooftop farm launched at Redefine's Keilworth Centre

[USA: NJ] Passaic wants to fill former industrial sites with produce farms — the vertical kind

The latest Vertical Farming Podcast(s)

Magdalena Szawarska is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nangatech, an organization that designs the most effective nanogas technology to boost the productivity of farming. Today, Harry and Magdalena talk about the state of AgTech in her hometown of Warsaw, Poland, her background in psychology, and the numerous benefits that nanogas and nanobubble technology has on the agriculture industry. Magdalena discusses the low barrier to entry for farmers to utilize this technology and how it can even be used to benefit animal breeders.

Eric Lang is the President and co-founder of ZipGrow, an organization that educates, equips, and empowers local farmers to grow better food for their communities using their patented ZipGrow technology. Today, Harry and Eric talk about the importance of educating the masses on the overall AgTech industry, why local is better than organic, and what ZipGrow is doing to fix the broken food model. Eric expounds on one of the latest offerings from ZipGrow, ZipPods, and advice he has for aspiring farmers looking to break into the industry.

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