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06/01/2025

Wishing everybody a sparkling 2025, with lots of seeds planted for a green future!

16/10/2024

02/10/2024

BIG NEWS: InstaGreen has been selected!
We’re 1 of 10 SMEs in Hungry EcoCities – S+T+ARTS
In the next 14 months we will be working together with:

→ Innovators
→ Architects
→ Artists
→ AI Experts
→ Universities
→ And many other amazing specialists & creatives

Our goal is to come up with fresh & real solutions, for the challenge of indoor climatization for local urban farms, using minimal resources.

Indoor farming and hydroponic cultivation bring along many benefits for the cultivation of local sustainable food.

But this type of Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) can use a lot of energy to create the perfect indoor climate.

This challenge aims to explore innovative, low-tech climatization control systems that can be prototyped and tested.

Using natural phenomena and biomimicry, we want to develop a cost-effective, highly energy-efficient
solution for small indoor farms.

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or suggestions in relation to this exciting project!

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This project is developed as part of the Hungry EcoCities S+T+ARTS Residency which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement 101069990.

30/09/2024

Question: if we can feed 60 billion land animals,
why cant we feed 8 billion humans?

Food loss at scale (*source: our world in data):
🌽 Half of the worlds habitable land is used for agriculture
🐄 80% of which for animals + their food.

While only 17% of our calorie supply comes from animals
And only 38% of our protein supply

Today, it is International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste Reduction

Do you want to reduce your food waste?

→ Simply start by eating more delicious plants!

Enjoy delicious food, while doing good!
🌱 Microgreens are off course our personal favourites :)

What is your favourite veggie?

25/09/2024

Do you want to know why people join our trainings?
Why they become a microgreen entrepreneur?
Building solutions through local hydroponic farms

Read the interview with Anneke Stolk by Andrea Di Pastena in VerticalFarmDaily.com

https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/article/9661839/more-and-more-farmers-are-turning-to-indoor-farming-and-hydroponics-not-necessarily-out-of-choice-but-out-of-necessity/

Consumer behavior around food production remains largely disconnected from how the food they consume is actually grown. "The majority of the market is completely unaware of how their food is…

23/08/2024

📈 2023: breaking records on land and in the oceans
Besides taking other actions, don’t forget to hydrate
Both yourself & your plants.

Starting to grow microgreens is a small positive action
Part of the solutions we need urgently:
🍀 plant based food
🍀local farming
🍀sustainable use of resources
🍀bad ass healthy food
🍀super tasty & gorgeous dishes!

So, to stay positive, healthy and thriving, you can:
→ Learn what makes microgreens so special
→ The secrets of growing them succesfully, every time
→ How to get maximum nutrients from these wonders
→ How to impress your guests with microgreen surprises

Have a look at our online microgreen course:
www.urbanfarmingacademy.com

15/08/2024

💡 What is better: High-Tech or Low-Tech ?
How do you know what’s the right answer?
…. Right-Tech, is our answer!

Our definition for Right-Tech for our innovations:
Only use High-Tech where it adds crucial value
And use Low-Tech for everything else

Often the Low-Tech solutions are:
→ Low cost
→ Low maintenance
→ Simple, easy, straightforward to use
→ Robust / fool proof
→ And stil repairable

With this in mind constantly, we designed our cultivation systems.
Using only “High-Tech” where crucial: LED-lights and automated irrigation.
And let natural things such as gravity and capillarity do the rest.

👩‍🌾 Saving microgreen farmers huge amounts of energy, water and time!

What Low-Tech solutions are you a real fan of?

12/08/2024

Red Veined Sorrel - Next level microgreens 🌱
An amazing microgreen for summer salads and soups.
Surprisingly strong in flavour and nutrient powers:

It’s not only a beauty to look at with its elegant red veins.
It also brings this zesty-citrus sorrel flavour to the table.
Both sour, and slightly bitter. An amazing flavour enhancer!

It has the highest concentration of Beta Carotene.
Your body converts this into vitamin A.
Making it a powerful source for antioxidants!

To grow red veined sorrel, you need to be patient.
Take 3-4 weeks at least for the micro-greens.
And make sure the plant has enough access to nutrients

But once you get there….
Enjoy these rich beauties!

09/08/2024

One of the great things about summer
And running a microgreen business:

Riding a bike + enjoying the sea = work!