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Featured: “This year, we’re kicking off the launch of three new showcase farms in Italy, France and Spain”
“Today, more than ever, the food industry is in need of modernization, and the global adoption of indoor vertical farming will revolutionize food production and distribution," says Bernard Sleijster, Partner and Director of Urban Health Farms (UHF). This year, we’re kicking off the launch of three...
Investments in Agtech Rise Above a Challenging Year
The last ten years have seen an unprecedented rush of venture capital into agtech. Between 2013 and 2019, funding to agtech startups have increased by 900% from $2.2 billion to $19.8 billion. In 2019 alone, indoor farming investments rose 38% over 2018. This rise in investments didn’t spring out...
15 Benefits of Indoor Vertical Farming
Urban Health Farms has just published a new infographic illustrating 15 of the most immediate benefits to indoor vertical farming…
“Vertical farms ‘in pole position’ to disrupt the food system”
The renowned investment bank Barclays Capital recent announcement was published in Food Navigator this spring, claiming that vertical farms are poised to capitalise on a US$50bn global market opportunity and will provide solutions to some of the greatest long-term challenges facing the food system...
An interview with our Managing Director – Leen Zevenbergen
Urban Health Farms is thrilled to introduce our new Managing Director, Leen Zevenbergen. Leen is a seasoned international leader with over 25 years of experience founding and building more than 20 companies with a focus on sustainability and technology. As a recent TEDx speaker and the author of...
Urban Health Farms Managing Director Leen Zevenbergen Publishes New Book
The world is changing at an accelerated pace. For those of us who work on feeding the growing number of people on this planet, that means we have to figure out innovative ways to do that, while addressing inequalities in wealth and food, producing food more locally in a healthy, affordable,...
Newsletter – Summer 2020 Edition
In the few months since our last newsletter, the world has seen social and economic upheaval, as well as battling health, wellness, and food security. In this newsletter, we cover how this time has impacted both Urban Health Farms and the indoor vertical farming community.
Newsletter – March 2020 Edition
March 2020 Newsletter available for download now
Urban Crop Solutions Joins EIT RisingFoodStars Community
Urban Health Farms is excited to announce the acceptance of our technology partner Urban Crop Solutions into the EIT RisingFoodStars community. EIT Food is a Knowledge and Innovation Community established by the European Institute for Innovation & Technology (EIT), an independent EU body set...
European FoodTech & AgTech Startups raise $1.6bn in 2018
Last year marked an exciting financial milestone for food tech companies. According to a new report released by AgFunder – Europe AgriFood Tech Investing Report 2018 – food tech companies and agtech startups raised a whopping $1.6 billion last year in 421 separate deals across Europe…
Urban Crop Solutions Deliver Fresh Food to IKEA Stores
We’re not going to make jokes about putting your own salad together at Ikea, but it can be done from now on. The furniture giant has been growing lettuce in a container farm near their stores in Helsingborg and Malmo, Sweden since early this year, supplied by our partner, Urban Crop Solutions …
Urban Crop Solutions wins the Public Choice Award at the European finals of the FoodNexus challenge
Urban Health Farms’ technology partner, Urban Crop Solutions was awarded the Public Choice Award at the European finals of the FoodNexus Challenge in December, 2017. Fifteen companies from 8 different EU countries competed during a three day event in …
Urban Crop Solutions presents its technology to the Belgian King Filip and the French President Macron
The French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife made a two-day state visit to Belgium in November, 2018. The delegation visits different cities at the invitation of the Belgian King Filip and Queen Mathilde. In addition to the protocol ceremonies, solemn receptions and the state banquet, there was also …
Urban Health Farms’ Parter, Urban Crops Solutions, is going Intergalactic!
Selling growing solutions so that humans on other planets will be supplied with fresh and healthy food is an ultimate dream for our (JV) partner, Urban Crop Solutions. The realization of this dream may be fast approaching thanks to a collaboration of their own with Puratos, an international business group …
Is Indoor Vertical Farming ‘Disaster Resilient’?
Disasters across the world are getting worse, much worse. According to a new report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 91% of all disasters between 1998 and 2017 were from floods, storms, droughts, heatwaves and other extreme weather events…
A Brief History of Indoor Vertical Farming
In ancient times, the only way for humans to get reliable fruits and vegetables was to collect them. We collected wild fruits and nuts in the autumn, and dug or clipped leafy vegetables and tubers in the spring. While as in-season and local as any modern human could ask for, agriculture was, of course, destined…
Featured: “This year, we’re kicking off the launch of three new showcase farms in Italy, France and Spain”
“Today, more than ever, the food industry is in need of modernization, and the global adoption of indoor vertical farming will revolutionize food production and distribution," says Bernard Sleijster, Partner and Director of Urban Health Farms (UHF). This year, we’re kicking off the launch of three...
Investments in Agtech Rise Above a Challenging Year
The last ten years have seen an unprecedented rush of venture capital into agtech. Between 2013 and 2019, funding to agtech startups have increased by 900% from $2.2 billion to $19.8 billion. In 2019 alone, indoor farming investments rose 38% over 2018. This rise in investments didn’t spring out...
15 Benefits of Indoor Vertical Farming
Urban Health Farms has just published a new infographic illustrating 15 of the most immediate benefits to indoor vertical farming…
“Vertical farms ‘in pole position’ to disrupt the food system”
The renowned investment bank Barclays Capital recent announcement was published in Food Navigator this spring, claiming that vertical farms are poised to capitalise on a US$50bn global market opportunity and will provide solutions to some of the greatest long-term challenges facing the food system...
An interview with our Managing Director – Leen Zevenbergen
Urban Health Farms is thrilled to introduce our new Managing Director, Leen Zevenbergen. Leen is a seasoned international leader with over 25 years of experience founding and building more than 20 companies with a focus on sustainability and technology. As a recent TEDx speaker and the author of...
Urban Health Farms Managing Director Leen Zevenbergen Publishes New Book
The world is changing at an accelerated pace. For those of us who work on feeding the growing number of people on this planet, that means we have to figure out innovative ways to do that, while addressing inequalities in wealth and food, producing food more locally in a healthy, affordable,...
Newsletter – Summer 2020 Edition
In the few months since our last newsletter, the world has seen social and economic upheaval, as well as battling health, wellness, and food security. In this newsletter, we cover how this time has impacted both Urban Health Farms and the indoor vertical farming community.
Newsletter – March 2020 Edition
March 2020 Newsletter available for download now
Urban Crop Solutions Joins EIT RisingFoodStars Community
Urban Health Farms is excited to announce the acceptance of our technology partner Urban Crop Solutions into the EIT RisingFoodStars community. EIT Food is a Knowledge and Innovation Community established by the European Institute for Innovation & Technology (EIT), an independent EU body set...
European FoodTech & AgTech Startups raise $1.6bn in 2018
Last year marked an exciting financial milestone for food tech companies. According to a new report released by AgFunder – Europe AgriFood Tech Investing Report 2018 – food tech companies and agtech startups raised a whopping $1.6 billion last year in 421 separate deals across Europe…
Urban Crop Solutions Deliver Fresh Food to IKEA Stores
We’re not going to make jokes about putting your own salad together at Ikea, but it can be done from now on. The furniture giant has been growing lettuce in a container farm near their stores in Helsingborg and Malmo, Sweden since early this year, supplied by our partner, Urban Crop Solutions …
Urban Crop Solutions wins the Public Choice Award at the European finals of the FoodNexus challenge
Urban Health Farms’ technology partner, Urban Crop Solutions was awarded the Public Choice Award at the European finals of the FoodNexus Challenge in December, 2017. Fifteen companies from 8 different EU countries competed during a three day event in …
Urban Crop Solutions presents its technology to the Belgian King Filip and the French President Macron
The French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife made a two-day state visit to Belgium in November, 2018. The delegation visits different cities at the invitation of the Belgian King Filip and Queen Mathilde. In addition to the protocol ceremonies, solemn receptions and the state banquet, there was also …
Urban Health Farms’ Parter, Urban Crops Solutions, is going Intergalactic!
Selling growing solutions so that humans on other planets will be supplied with fresh and healthy food is an ultimate dream for our (JV) partner, Urban Crop Solutions. The realization of this dream may be fast approaching thanks to a collaboration of their own with Puratos, an international business group …
Is Indoor Vertical Farming ‘Disaster Resilient’?
Disasters across the world are getting worse, much worse. According to a new report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 91% of all disasters between 1998 and 2017 were from floods, storms, droughts, heatwaves and other extreme weather events…
A Brief History of Indoor Vertical Farming
In ancient times, the only way for humans to get reliable fruits and vegetables was to collect them. We collected wild fruits and nuts in the autumn, and dug or clipped leafy vegetables and tubers in the spring. While as in-season and local as any modern human could ask for, agriculture was, of course, destined…

Featured: “This year, we’re kicking off the launch of three new showcase farms in Italy, France and Spain”
“Today, more than ever, the food industry is in need of modernization, and the global adoption of indoor vertical farming will revolutionize food production and distribution," says Bernard Sleijster, Partner and Director of Urban Health Farms (UHF). This year, we’re kicking off the launch of three...

Investments in Agtech Rise Above a Challenging Year
The last ten years have seen an unprecedented rush of venture capital into agtech. Between 2013 and 2019, funding to agtech startups have increased by 900% from $2.2 billion to $19.8 billion. In 2019 alone, indoor farming investments rose 38% over 2018. This rise in investments didn’t spring out...

15 Benefits of Indoor Vertical Farming
Urban Health Farms has just published a new infographic illustrating 15 of the most immediate benefits to indoor vertical farming…

“Vertical farms ‘in pole position’ to disrupt the food system”
The renowned investment bank Barclays Capital recent announcement was published in Food Navigator this spring, claiming that vertical farms are poised to capitalise on a US$50bn global market opportunity and will provide solutions to some of the greatest long-term challenges facing the food system...

An interview with our Managing Director – Leen Zevenbergen
Urban Health Farms is thrilled to introduce our new Managing Director, Leen Zevenbergen. Leen is a seasoned international leader with over 25 years of experience founding and building more than 20 companies with a focus on sustainability and technology. As a recent TEDx speaker and the author of...

Urban Health Farms Managing Director Leen Zevenbergen Publishes New Book
The world is changing at an accelerated pace. For those of us who work on feeding the growing number of people on this planet, that means we have to figure out innovative ways to do that, while addressing inequalities in wealth and food, producing food more locally in a healthy, affordable,...

Newsletter – Summer 2020 Edition
In the few months since our last newsletter, the world has seen social and economic upheaval, as well as battling health, wellness, and food security. In this newsletter, we cover how this time has impacted both Urban Health Farms and the indoor vertical farming community.

Newsletter – March 2020 Edition
March 2020 Newsletter available for download now

Urban Crop Solutions Joins EIT RisingFoodStars Community
Urban Health Farms is excited to announce the acceptance of our technology partner Urban Crop Solutions into the EIT RisingFoodStars community. EIT Food is a Knowledge and Innovation Community established by the European Institute for Innovation & Technology (EIT), an independent EU body set...

European FoodTech & AgTech Startups raise $1.6bn in 2018
Last year marked an exciting financial milestone for food tech companies. According to a new report released by AgFunder – Europe AgriFood Tech Investing Report 2018 – food tech companies and agtech startups raised a whopping $1.6 billion last year in 421 separate deals across Europe…

Urban Crop Solutions Deliver Fresh Food to IKEA Stores
We’re not going to make jokes about putting your own salad together at Ikea, but it can be done from now on. The furniture giant has been growing lettuce in a container farm near their stores in Helsingborg and Malmo, Sweden since early this year, supplied by our partner, Urban Crop Solutions …

Urban Crop Solutions wins the Public Choice Award at the European finals of the FoodNexus challenge
Urban Health Farms’ technology partner, Urban Crop Solutions was awarded the Public Choice Award at the European finals of the FoodNexus Challenge in December, 2017. Fifteen companies from 8 different EU countries competed during a three day event in …

Urban Crop Solutions presents its technology to the Belgian King Filip and the French President Macron
The French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife made a two-day state visit to Belgium in November, 2018. The delegation visits different cities at the invitation of the Belgian King Filip and Queen Mathilde. In addition to the protocol ceremonies, solemn receptions and the state banquet, there was also …

Urban Health Farms’ Parter, Urban Crops Solutions, is going Intergalactic!
Selling growing solutions so that humans on other planets will be supplied with fresh and healthy food is an ultimate dream for our (JV) partner, Urban Crop Solutions. The realization of this dream may be fast approaching thanks to a collaboration of their own with Puratos, an international business group …

Is Indoor Vertical Farming ‘Disaster Resilient’?
Disasters across the world are getting worse, much worse. According to a new report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 91% of all disasters between 1998 and 2017 were from floods, storms, droughts, heatwaves and other extreme weather events…

A Brief History of Indoor Vertical Farming
In ancient times, the only way for humans to get reliable fruits and vegetables was to collect them. We collected wild fruits and nuts in the autumn, and dug or clipped leafy vegetables and tubers in the spring. While as in-season and local as any modern human could ask for, agriculture was, of course, destined…