Howdy and welcome again to Fairness, TechCrunch’s enterprise capital-focused podcast the place we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. That is our Wednesday present, the time of the week once we area of interest all the way down to a single matter. As we speak we spoke in regards to the revolution inside agriculture in any other case often known as vertical farming.
Alex and Natasha spoke to {Hardware} editor Brian Heater, who just lately wrote a TC-1 about Bowery Farming spanning over 11,000 phrases and matters such because the style of sustainable turnips and produce sections at grocery shops. The core of his multi-part exploration, although, was constructed round a query: Can Bowery Farms carry the latest and most revolutionary applied sciences to bear on civilization’s oldest and most optimized business?
In consequence, our episode went down loads of tasty rabbit holes. We spoke in regards to the present state of vertical farming, the challenges that include commercialization and our struggling local weather, and in case your native dairy farm is definitely excited about including a robotic to their employees.
There was extra to chew on, together with the steadiness between sustainability and revenue, how to consider carbon footprints, the commercialization of vertical farming at this time, and the way some people are spending $30 on a strawberry. We had beautiful time and could have Brian again on the pod.
Right here’s the TC-1 in the event you’re :
- Bowery Farming is forcing us all to look up at the future of vertical agriculture (3,500 phrases/14 minutes) — explores the evolution of vertical farming, it’s growth in Japan and the way Bowery Farming was began to carry indoor farming to the plenty in america.
- Hacking lettuce for taste and profit (2,500 phrases/10 minutes) — evaluates how Bowery collects knowledge from its farms in an effort to optimize taste whereas additionally probably increasing its produce line into new classes like strawberries and turnips.
- Can LEDs ultimately replace the sun? (2,100 phrases/8 minutes) — investigates two of an important questions on Bowery Farming: Can it develop a aggressive moat with its expertise (which it dubs BoweryOS) and simply how a lot environmental profit can the corporate derive from its farms?
- The voracious fight for your salad bowl (3,000 phrases/12 minutes) — appears to be like on the extraordinarily aggressive nature of the produce part on the grocery retailer and the way Bowery intends to construct a model with customers whereas discovering a path to profitability.
The Fairness crew can be again Friday morning with our weekly roundup. Our hearts exit to Mary Ann who will return to us in due time, and our basic ire is reserved for Danny. As a result of we’re nonetheless smarting from his divorcing of us for Lux.
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