Episodes
Dickson travels to indoor farm Gotham Greens in Brooklyn, New York to speak with Co-founder and CEO Viraj Puri.
Published 03/14/18
Daniel joins Dickson and Vincent to talk about the Vertical Farm Institute, which provides advice and planning on the design and construction of indoor farms.
Published 12/23/17
Dickson provides an updates on progress towards establishing long-term, sustainable, local, safe food systems based on indoor farming.
Published 11/10/17
Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello
Guest: Robert Colangelo
Dickson and Vincent speak with Robert Colangelo, founding farmer and CEO of Green Sense Farms, the world's largest commercial indoor vertical farm.
Links for this episode Green Sense Farms Green Sense Radio Letters read on Urban Agriculture 26 This episode is sponsored by CuriosityStream, a subscription streaming service that offers over 1,400 documentaries and nonfiction series from the world’s best filmmakers....
Published 10/18/16
Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello
Dickson defines the term 'vertical farm': a high-tech greenhouse that is stacked on top of itself, transforming it into a multi-story growing space.
Links for this episode GreenTech Amsterdam The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono Rewilding the World by Caroline Fraser Carbon farming This episode is sponsored by CuriosityStream, a subscription streaming service that offers over 1,400 documentaries and nonfiction series from the world’s...
Published 09/02/16
Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello
Guest: Joel Cuello
Dickson and Vincent speak with Professor Joel Cuello about his work on engineering of sustainable biological and agricultural innovations, including bioregenerative space life support, crop hydroponics, plant tissue culture, micropropagation, and industrial mass production of algae and plant cell and microbial cultures.
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Controlled environment agriculture World without walls (pdf) 10 tips for...
Published 06/23/16
Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello
Guest: Gene Giacomelli
Dickson and Vincent speak with Professor Gene Giacomelli about his work on controlled environment plant production systems research, design, development and applications.
Links for this episode Controlled environment agriculture Biometry and biosystems informatics Food, bioproducts, and renewable energy Image credit This episode is sponsored by CuriosityStream, a subscription streaming service that offers over...
Published 05/14/16
Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello
Guest: Clare Miflin
Dickson and Vincent speak with architect Clare Miflin about biomimicry - innovation inspired by nature - and environmentally sound building practices.
Links for this episode
Kiss & Kathcart Architects
Biomimicry Institute
Biomimicry 3.8
Make biomimicry your career
Hermit crab vacancy chain (Vimeo)
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Published 04/02/16
Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello
Guest: Gregory Kiss
Dickson and Vincent speak with architect Gregory Kiss about how to build self-sustaining urban buildings.
Links for this episode
Kiss & Kathcart Architects
2020 Challenge (pdf)
The 2050 city (pdf)
Science barge
National Building Museum
Greenhouse Project PS 333
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
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Published 02/29/16
Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello
Guests: Ed Horton and Danielle Horton
Dickson and Vincent speak with Ed and Danielle Horton from Urban Produce, which uses a high-density vertical indoor growing system which they hope to implement all over the world.
Links for this episode
Urban Produce LLC
Urban Produce on YouTube
Urban Produce on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram
Urban Produce virtual tour at YouTube
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Published 12/01/15
Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello
Dickson and Vincent review recent developments in indoor farming, and catch up with the backlog of listener questions and comments.
Links for this episode
Roots of organic farming on campus (NY Times)
Green Sense Farms in China (NWI)
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Letters read on UrbAg 19
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Published 11/09/15
Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello
Guest: Caleb Harper
Dickson and Vincent speak with Caleb Harper about the Open Agriculture initiative at the MIT Media Lab.
Links for this episode
CityFARM
MIT Media Lab
Growing data will be hosted at openag.mit.edu (not yet live)
Caliber Biotherapeutics
Caleb Harper on Twitter, Instagram
MIT Open Agriculture on Twitter
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Published 09/21/15
Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello
Dickson and Vincent review recent entrants into the growing discipline of urban agriculture.
Links for this episode
Greener Roots
Urban Produce
US Pavilion Milan Expo 2015
TruLeaf
Ray Kurzweil on Vertical Farming
10 Mile Farms
Seoul adopts urban agriculture
Green Sense Farms
Lufa Farms
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Published 08/08/15
Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello
Guests: Penny McBride and Nona Yehia
Dickson and Vincent speak with the founders of Vertical Harvest, an indoor farm in Jackson, Wyoming.
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Vertical Harvest
Vertical Harvest before (jpg)
Vertical Harvest video (view at YouTube)
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Published 06/08/15
Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello
Guests: Ed Harwood and Mark Oshima
Dickson and Vincent visit AeroFarms, an indoor farm in Newark, NJ and speak with Chief Science Officer Ed Harwood and Chief Marketing Officer Mark Oshima.
Links for this episode
AeroFarms
AeroFarms in NY Times
Photogallery
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Published 04/25/15
Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello
Guest: Henry Gordon-Smith
Dickson and Vincent meet with Henry Gordon-Smith, founder of Agritecture and board member of the Association for Vertical Farming.
Links for this episode
Agritecture
Association for Vertical Farming
Blue Planet Environmental
Henry's Bronx model vertical farm
AeroFarms
The Martian by Andy Weir
Mirai Co. Japan
Letters read on UrbAg 14
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Published 03/03/15
Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello
Guest: Dan Albert
Dickson and Vincent talk with Dan Albert, founder of Farmbox Greens, a commercial urban farm in Seattle, Washington.
Links for this episode
Eco-Laboratory
Farmbox Greens video (YouTube)
Buy Farmbox Greens (Marx Foods)
John Todd (Wikipedia)
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
Image credit: Marx Foods
FarmedHere story at Business Insider
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Published 02/14/15
Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello
Guest: Paul Hardej
Dickson and Vincent speak with Paul Hardej, founder of Farmed Here, a commercial vertical farm in Chicago, Illinois.
Links for this episode
FarmedHere
FarmedHere opening (YouTube)
FarmedHere story at Business Insider
Video of this episode - view at YouTube
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Published 12/31/14
Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello
Guests: Chris Hammelef and Paul Grey
Dickson and Vincent speak with Chris and Paul of Illumitex to learn about their revolutionary approach to designing horticultural LED lighting.
Links for this episode
Illumitex
LED (Wikipedia)
Photosynthesis (Wikipedia)
Illumitex horticultural LED products
Image credit: Illumitex
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Published 12/04/14
Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello
Dickson and Vincent read listener email about urban agriculture, hydroponics, aquaponics, underground vertical farms, climate change, and more.
Links for this episode
Quinoa
Asparagus
Letters read on UrbAg 10
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Published 10/22/14
Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello
Guests: Milan Kluko and Daniel Kluko
Dickson and Vincent speak with Milan and Daniel Kluko, owners of Green Spirit Farms, a sustainable vertical farm in New Buffalo, Michigan.
Links for this episode
Green Spirit Farms
Green Spirit Farms News
Green Spirit Farms videos on Vimeo
Letters read on UrbAg 8
Video of this episode - view at YouTube
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Published 09/28/14
Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello
Guest: James Cannon
Dickson and Vincent speak with James Cannon, Chief of Horticulture at Green Farms A&M, about how his company produces food indoors.
Links for this episode
Green Farms A&M
James Cannon on Green Farms (YouTube)
Upright Farms, Inc.
Photo credit: Andy LaValley, Sun-Times Media
Letters read on UrbAg 8
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Published 08/20/14
Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello
Dickson and Vincent continue their discussion of the science of indoor farming.
Links for this episode
Soil Science Society of America
Haber process (Wikipedia)
Sky Greens
Plantagon
PlantLab
Phillips LED
Salad greens
Brooklyn Grange
Hydro-Stacker
Growing plants upside-down
Letters read on UrbAg 7
Dickson's pick
Bog bodies of the Iron Age (Nova)
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Published 07/28/14
Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello
Dickson and Vincent provide an overview of the technologies that allow the practice of indoor farming.
Links for this episode
Hydroponic root crops
Nutrient film technology (Wikipedia)
Aeroponics (Wikipedia)
Aquaculture (NOAA)
Pasona O2
Chlorophyll spectrum (Wikipedia)
Peak phosphorus and food security (pdf)
Omega Grow Systems
Image credit: Kono Designs
Letters read on UrbAg 6
Dickson's pick
Practical Hydroponics and Greenhouses
Listener...
Published 07/01/14