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.

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.

CEA inSight • July 2023

What’s next for Sweden’s Ljusgårda and its Life Cycle Assessment?

When Swedish vertical farming company Ljusgårda set out to develop a sustainability plan, the company took an uncommon step: It pursued a comprehensive, research-based Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) based on actual key performance indicators (KPIs) from its commercial vertical farm.

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.

Means and Matters • October 2022

Washington Dairy Farmer Aims to Go Carbon Negative

This agribusiness profile for Bank of the West's award-winning Means & Matters magazine highlights a Washington entrepreneur and farmer who's laser-focused on sustainability and carbon-negative goals.

Produce Grower • August 2022

Moving forward in Alberta

Despite a global pandemic, Big Marble Farms has more than doubled its production area and nearly doubled its employee count. The company has also launched a sustainability initiative focused on “The” Big Marble — planet Earth — from which it takes its name.

Means and Matters • May 2022

Sustainable Groundwater Management Reshapes Farming in California’s Central Valley

This story for Bank of the West's award-winning Means & Matters digs into how water scarcity and California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) may affect Central Valley farmers in the near, mid and long term.

Produce Grower • February 2022

Onward & upward

B2B cover story for Produce Grower magazine on Brooklyn-based aquaponic bass and greens grower Upward Farms and its plans to build the world's largest vertical farm.

Hemp Grower • December 2021

Hemp Grain: A Powerhouse With Potential

B2B cover story for Hemp Grower magazine, sister publication to Cannabis Business Times. It takes a deep dive into the U.S. hemp grain industry, its challenges and its potential. Awarded National and Regional Gold Awards by the 2022 American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE) Awards of Excellence.

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.

Hemp Grower • June 2021

Small & Mighty

B2B COVER STORY - At Tulip Tree Gardens, branded hemp, heirloom vegetables, and regenerative agriculture now coexist where sharecropped corn and soybean fields once grew.

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.

Produce Grower • March 2020

Big-Picture Packaging

B2B COVER STORY - Fresh produce packaging has come a long way since the days when wooden crates met the industry’s needs. Options that worked when a retailer’s biggest concern was controlling heads of iceberg lettuce fall short in the face of modern consumer expectations and needs.

Produce Grower • August 2019

Myco-Magic: Specialty Mushrooms

B2B COVER STORY- These favored fungi aren’t your standard white buttons. These are specialty mushrooms, also known as exotics, with shapes, colors, tastes and textures that spur culinary minds and palates to new heights.

Produce Grower • October 2019

Culinary Connection

B2B COVER STORY - From the street, the old strip mall in Arlington, Virginia, gives few clues that something fresh is going on inside. But around back and tucked underneath, the city’s only urban farm has hydroponic agriculture going full swing.

Hemp Grower • September 2020

Building Strong Roots

Growers new to container production eventually learn that all pots aren’t created equal. It’s a lesson producers of mainstream container-grown horticultural crops have long known—and that progressive container companies continue to prove.

Produce Grower • June 2020

Rapid Growth, Rapid Change

B2B COVER STORY - According to culinary legend, San Francisco-area chefs were using what are now called “microgreens” as far back as the 1980s. While no one is sure what they were called back then, one thing is certain: Their popularity grew.

Behind the Scenes • November 2020

Pioneering Surfactant Research

Previous surfactant research focused on soil-water relations and how wetting agents improve water distribution and retention in soil. This collaborative effort shifts the emphasis to how wetting agents modify plant physiology.