Cannabis Business Times • November 2023 Power in Partnership - The Story of Simply Pure Trenton B2B Cover Story - With the launch of Simply Pure Trenton, Wanda James and Simply Pure licensee partner Tahir Johnson are bringing the Colorado brand to the East Coast.
Cannabis Business Times • October 2023 2023 State of the Cannabis Lighting Market Report Cannabis Business Times' 8th annual research dive into lighting practices and trends among commercial cannabis cultivators.
CEA inSight • October 2023 Hybrid CEA pioneer Eden Green celebrates groundbreaking Plans to scale production at hybrid vertical-greenhouse farming company Eden Green Technology are a step closer to reality. The company is celebrating the Eden Green groundbreaking of its $40 million Phase 2 expansion at its Cleburne, Texas, campus, as it welcomes Will Parkey as Chief Financial Officer.
CEA inSight • September 2023 Q&A with Paul Brentlinger, CEO of CropKing As CEO of CropKing, Paul Brentlinger heads a company that helped pioneer controlled environment agriculture. He grew up in an environment where CEA and hydroponics were the norm — when much of the world had never heard of them yet. As a result, his perspective on the CEA industry’s past, present and future is deeply and uniquely informed.
CEA inSight • September 2023 Q&A with John McMahon, Better Future Farms Co-Founder and COO John McMahon is co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Better Future Farms (BFF), a Virginia controlled-environment agriculture (CEA) company that burst into the spotlight in early 2023, when Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin announced BFF was building a high-tech hydroponic production facility on 61 acres of Louisa County land.
Greenhouse Management • September 2023 Leveraging tradition, innovation & intention B2B Cover Story - Westerlay Orchids' Toine Overgaag augments the business's heritage with technology, sustainability and deliberate goals.
CEA inSight • August 2023 Q&A with Don Taylor, AmplifiedAg founder and CEO As founder and CEO of South Carolina-based AgTech company AmplifiedAg, Don Taylor leads a team devoted to developing and delivering innovative, successful farm technologies for the CEA industry’s present and future. In this Q&A, he shares insights, inspiration and hopes for his company and CEA's future.
Moleaer • August 2023 Unlocking the Power and Wonder of Nanobubbles Just twenty years ago, nanobubble science was virtually nonexistent. Technologies to generate these nano-sized wonders — 2,500 times smaller than a grain of salt — were still far away, as were practical, impactful applications. Now a 10-person Research and Development (R&D) team at Moleaer is focused on advancing nanobubble science along with sales.
Produce Grower • April 2023 Sustainable Aspirations B2B cover story. For growers and packers who strive for sustainability, the decisions surrounding sustainable packaging are complex — from trends in materials and marketing to food safety, shelf life and plain old economics.
Greenhouse Management • November 2022 Navigating a new era This B2B cover story for Greenhouse Management magazine shares the story of a business acquisition that's flourished in all the best ways.
Garden Center • October 2022 Food for thought B2B COVER STORY The past two decades have seen a steady increase in garden centers with cafés and restaurants, inspired partly by artisan coffeehouses and European IGCs with high-end eateries at their hearts. Three IGCs share lessons learned on their food-venue journeys.
Nursery Management • September 2022 Investing in people, not just production B2B COVER STORY - This family-owned company’s bicentennial is approaching, and they're prepping for the future by investing in people.
Greenhouse Management • July 2022 Embracing online sales B2B COVER STORY - When Doug Thorsen launched Thorsen’s Greenhouse in 2000, the houseplant explosion of the 1970s was a distant memory and accessible e-commerce for small businesses was little more than a dream. This B2B cover story shares how Thorsen’s focused production approach positioned the company for e-commerce success.
Garden Center Magazine • July 2022 Digital storefront When COVID-19 hit the United States in early 2020, independent garden centers across the country scrambled to meet the challenge. Amazon and other online retailers took off as consumers doubled down on buying online, and garden centers took note. B2B story for Garden Center's 2022 Top 100 issue.
Cannabis Business Times • May 2022 From Potential to Profits: Reaping the Benefits of Sound Lighting In this Fluence-sponsored content for Cannabis Business Times, Maryland cultivator Jake Van Wingerden of SunMed Growers talks about the math of payback and his decision to make the switch to LEDs.
Garden Center Magazine • May 2022 Check your tech B2B Cover Story for Garden Center's Tech issue explores how POS systems can help IGCs excel. By choice or necessity, IGCs across the country have had to implement e-commerce, navigate plant and product shortages, and stay on top of inventory and sales with less staff and more pressures — all areas where point-of-sale (POS) systems promise help.
Cannabis Business Times • October 2021 Growing Under High Light Intensities State of the Lighting Market Special Report. For many growers and researchers, the emphasis has shifted from light color or spectral quality to light intensity—specifically, high light intensities that go beyond sunlight.
Means & Matters • September 2021 6 Ways Sustainable Agriculture Is Changing the Business of Food Feature for Bank of the West's Webby Award-winning Means & Matters on trends transforming sustainable food and agriculture.
Produce Grower • February 2021 Green & Growing B2B COVER STORY - Time spent talking with Schuyler Greens Company founder and farm manager John McMahon reveals the dream that drives this controlled-environment agriculture (CEA) farm.
Hotel Indigo • November 2020 Explore Our Neighborhood: See - Hear - Taste Brand copy for InterContinental Hotels Group's new Hotel Indigo Rochester Downtown. Rochester's dynamic downtown scene mirrors the international cast of locals and visitors that world-class medicine draws.