Dickson travels to indoor farm Gotham Greens in Brooklyn, New York to speak with Co-founder and CEO Viraj Puri. Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello Guest: Viraj Puri Links for this episode Gotham Greens Send your questions and co

The Vertical Farm Institute

Dec 23rd, 2017 59m 41s

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello Guest: Daniel Podmirseg 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. Links for

The Next Big Things

Nov 10th, 2017 1h 17m

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello Dickson provides an update on progress towards establishing long-term, sustainable, local, safe food systems based on indoor farming. Links for this episode Pumpkin genome sequenced (SciDaily) T

Urban Agriculture 26: Green Sense Farms

Oct 18th, 2016 1h 11m

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

Urban Agriculture 25: Standing Tall

Sep 2nd, 2016 1h 40m

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

Urban Agriculture 24: Cuello's Law

Jun 23rd, 2016 1h 13m

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

Urban Agriculture 23: Controlled enviroment agriculture

May 14th, 2016 1h 10m

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.

Urban Agriculture 22: Clare-ity of thought

Apr 2nd, 2016 1h 34m

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent RacanielloGuest: Clare MiflinDickson and Vincent speak with architect Clare Miflin about biomimicry - innovation inspired by nature - and environmentally sound building practices. Links for this episod

Urban Agriculture 21: Kiss and tell

Feb 29th, 2016 1h 36m

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent RacanielloGuest: Gregory KissDickson and Vincent speak with architect Gregory Kiss about how to build self-sustaining urban buildings.Links for this episodeKiss & Kathcart Architects2020 Challenge (

Urban Agriculture 20: Kalefornia dreamin'

Dec 1st, 2015 53m 29s

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent RacanielloGuests: Ed Horton and Danielle HortonDickson and Vincent speak with Ed and Danielle Horton from Urban Produce, which uses a high-density vertical indoor growing system which they hope to impleme

Urban Agriculture 19: Urban aggivangelists

Nov 9th, 2015 1h 9m

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent RacanielloDickson and Vincent review recent developments in indoor farming, and catch up with the backlog of listener questions and comments.Links for this episodeRoots of organic farming on campus (N

Urban Agriculture 18: Sharecropping the OpenAg way

Sep 21st, 2015 1h 2m

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent RacanielloGuest: Caleb HarperDickson and Vincent speak with Caleb Harper about the Open Agriculture initiative at the MIT Media Lab.Links for this episodeCityFARMMIT Media LabGrowing data will be hos

Urban Agriculture 17: New urban and vertical farms

Aug 8th, 2015 1h 24m

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent RacanielloDickson and Vincent review recent entrants into the growing discipline of urban agriculture.Links for this episodeGreener RootsUrban ProduceUS Pavilion Milan Expo 2015TruLeafRay Kurzweil

Urban Agriculture 16: Vertical Harvest

Jun 8th, 2015 47m 53s

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent RacanielloGuests: Penny McBride and Nona YehiaDickson and Vincent speak with the founders of Vertical Harvest, an indoor farm in Jackson, Wyoming.Links for this episodeVertical HarvestVertical Harve

Urban Agriculture 15: AeroFarms

Apr 25th, 2015 47m 53s

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent RacanielloGuests: Ed Harwood and Mark OshimaDickson 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

Urban Agriculture 14: Agritecture

Mar 3rd, 2015 1h 41m

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent RacanielloGuest: Henry Gordon-SmithDickson and Vincent meet with Henry Gordon-Smith, founder of Agritecture and board member of the Association for Vertical Farming.Links for this episodeAgritecture

Urban Agriculture 13: Farmbox Greens

Feb 14th, 2015 58m 43s

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent RacanielloGuest: Dan AlbertDickson and Vincent talk with Dan Albert, founder of Farmbox Greens, a commercial urban farm in Seattle, Washington.Links for this episodeEco-LaboratoryFarmbox Greens video

Urban Agriculture 12: FarmedHere

Dec 31st, 2014 1h

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent RacanielloGuest: Paul HardejDickson and Vincent speak with Paul Hardej, founder of Farmed Here, a commercial vertical farm in Chicago, Illinois.Links for this episodeFarmedHereFarmedHere opening (YouT

Urban Agriculture 11: Growing the light fantastic with Illumitex

Dec 4th, 2014 51m 9s

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent RacanielloGuests: Chris Hammelef and Paul GreyDickson and Vincent speak with Chris and Paul of Illumitex to learn about their revolutionary approach to designing horticultural LED lighting.Links for th

Urban Agriculture 10: Quinoa and asparagus

Oct 22nd, 2014 1h 19m

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent RacanielloDickson and Vincent read listener email about urban agriculture, hydroponics, aquaponics, underground vertical farms, climate change, and more.Links for this episodeQuinoaAsparagusLetters

Urban Agriculture 9: Green Spirit Farms

Sep 28th, 2014 1h 20m

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent RacanielloGuests: Milan Kluko and Daniel KlukoDickson and Vincent speak with Milan and Daniel Kluko, owners of Green Spirit Farms, a sustainable vertical farm in New Buffalo, Michigan.Links for this epis

Urban Agriculture 8: Green Farms A&M

Aug 20th, 2014 1h 17m

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent RacanielloGuest: James CannonDickson and Vincent speak with James Cannon, Chief of Horticulture at Green Farms A&M, about how his company produces food indoors.Links for this episodeGreen Farms A&MJam

Urban Agriculture 7: The science behind growing food indoors

Jul 28th, 2014 1h 31m

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent RacanielloDickson and Vincent continue their discussion of the science of indoor farming.Links for this episodeSoil Science Society of AmericaHaber process (Wikipedia)Sky GreensPlantagonPlantLabPhi

Urban Agriculture 6: The nuts and bolts of indoor farming

Jul 1st, 2014 1h 37m

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent RacanielloDickson and Vincent provide an overview of the technologies that allow the practice of indoor farming.Links for this episodeHydroponic root cropsNutrient film technology (Wikipedia)Aeroponic

Urban Agriculture 5: From the classroom to the table

Jun 14th, 2014 1h 47m

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent RacanielloDickson and Vincent discuss how the vertical farm concept was developed and where it stands today.Links for this episodeVertical farming (Wikipedia)Dickson on Colbert ReportSouth Korea resea