Hello all you patient vertical farming fans and supporters!

Welcome back to another edition of Vertical Farming Weekly. Timely updates from the world of vertical farming and new episodes of the Vertical Farming Podcast.

OK, maybe not so timely, given you haven't heard from us in a while! 🤦 Thanks for being patient.

Check out our latest podcast episode below and news about the launch of Vertical Farming Jobs!

This Week in Vertical Farming

Soil-Less Strawberry Production In Greenhouses

9 UNIVERSITIES CREATING THE AGRICULTURAL WORKFORCE OF TOMORROW

Tokyo supermarkets turn to in-store vertical farms to cut carbon emissions

Japan: Meeting high lettuce demand through automated vertical farm production

Australia: "Covid drove us to find new ways to innovate with overproduction"

"Is there a crop that is 100% sellable, and keeps its value over time? Answer is seaweed”

Walmart invests in vertical farming startup Plenty

The world’s largest vertical farm will have a secret ingredient: fish

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This Week's Guest

Ray Urrutia, Founder and CEO of Terra Firma Foods. Listen to the episode here: https://verticalfarmingpodcast.com and Follow/Subscribe wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

Join Harry Duran, host of Vertical Farming Podcast, as he welcomes to the show Ray Urrutia, Founder and CEO of Terra Firma Foods, an organization seeking to develop vertical farms and an innovative way to grow organic crops. Today, Harry and Ray discuss how Ray’s illustrious business background and charitable nature led him to the vertical farming industry. Ray speaks to the challenges that Terra Firma Foods faces and their plans to develop and ‘branchise’ their model farms across the U.S. and, eventually, nationally and internationally. Ray also shares his unique viewpoint of other competing vertical farming organizations and his belief in acting on ideas. Finally, Ray speculates on what the future holds for Terra Firma Foods and invites listeners to reach out to him to learn more. 

Vertical Farming Jobs

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Until next time,

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