Press and Media
New Hope 360 – December 2011
Locally grown produce is looking up for retailers
What if you could have access to locally grown produce year round and cut the cost of shipping these products to zero?
Produce News – December 2011
BrightFarms completes $4.3 million series-A financing
BrightFarms Inc., located in New York City, announced the completion of a $4.3-million series-A equity-financing round.
New Hampshire Public Radio – December 2011
Shortest Supply Chain Ever? Greenhouses on Top of Supermarkets
Local food with a capital L: New York-based Brightfarms builds greenhouses on top of grocery stores and warehouses.
The Packer – December 2011
Rooftop greenhouse builder gets financing boost
A company that builds greenhouses on supermarket roofs has received $4.3 million in financing from investors.
Perishable News – December 2011
BrightFarms Completes $4.3 Million Series A Financing
BrightFarms, Inc. (formerly BrightFarms LLC) today announced the completion of a $4.3 million Series A equity financing round.
The Supermarket News – December 2011
BrightFarms Completes Financing
BrightFarms Inc. here has raised $4.3 million in financing that will go toward building hydroponic greenhouses at supermarkets.
Sustainable Business – December 2011
BrightFarms Raises $4.3 Million to Bring Local Foods to Supermarkets
BrightFarms, Inc., which has an innovative model to bring local foods to supermarkets, raised $4.3 million in a Series A equity financing round.
Lempert Report’s Food, Science and Nutrition – Nov. 2011
BrightFarms: Food Sense
The benefits of changing the produce supply chain in a way that improves the planet and a retailer’s bottom line.
My Central New Jersey – November 2011
Fresh Produce Grown On A Grocery Store Near You
McCaffrey’s Markets has announced an agreement with BrightFarms to revolutionize its produce supply chain by building a hydroponic greenhouse farm at one of McCaffrey’s grocery stores.
The Supermarket News – October 2011
McCaffrey’s to Open Greenhouse at Store Location
McCaffrey’s Markets here last week announced an arrangement with New York-based BrightFarms to build a greenhouse that will supply “ultra-local” produce to the location.
The Produce News – October 2011
BrightFarms and McCaffrey’s announce agreement for store greenhouse
McCaffrey’s Markets and BrightFarms announce an agreement to build a greenhouse farm at one of McCaffrey’s grocery stores.
Greenhouse Management – October 2011
BrightFarms and McCaffrey’s announce agreement for store greenhouse
BrightFarms will finance, build and operate the greenhouse, which will grow “Ultra Local” produce for McCaffrey’s.
Progressive Grocer – October 2011
McCaffrey’s Taps BrightFarms For On-Location Produce Greenhouse
McCaffrey’s Markets will soon house a BrightFarms greenhouse at one its three store locations. By growing the produce directly on location, McCaffrey’s will offer customers fresh, tasty and environmentally sustainable produce.
Fast Company – October 2011
BrightFarms CEO Paul Lightfoot Wants To Grow Lettuce On Your Roof [VIDEO]
If you’re a grocery store, BrightFarms thinks your roof would make a fantastic location for a hydroponic greenhouse.
Supermarket Guru – October 2011
BrightFarms, Bright Future
What’s growing on your roof? If you answered, “Nothing,” that could change.
Canadian Grocer – September 2011
Supermarket Rooftop Farming Coming Soon
New York firm Bright Farms has signed on with 10 U.S. supermarket chains to build and operate rooftop hydroponic greenhouses that will supply the chains with their own fruit and vegetables.
Industry Leaders Magazine – September 2011
Ultra-Local Hydroponic Greenhouses for Supermarkets
What sort of a shelf-life do you think vegetables usually available in supermarkets have? Sometimes less than half of what they naturally possess, says BrightFarms. And this is exactly what BrightFarms has set out to change.
Supermarket News – September 2011
A Different Approach
BrightFarms’ principal criterion is freshness in support of flavor and nutrition, sold at competitive prices.
United Press International – September 2011
Fresh produce grown on supermarket roof
The local foods movement involves farmers selling directly to consumers, but a U.S. company calls its plan to grow produce on supermarket roofs “ultra local.”
Food + Tech – September 2011
Ali Partovi on Investing In Sustainable Food & Agriculture
Angel investor Ali Partovi discusses his interest in the new food and technology sector, and his reasons for investing in BrightFarms.
Supermarket News – September 2011
Greenhouses Improve Access to Local Produce
Though still a miniscule part of the food business, the growth of farmers’ markets says something important about consumer tastes and where food retailing may be headed.
The Toronto Star – September 2011
Would you buy veggies grown on your supermarket’s roof?
A New York based firm BrightFarms has a green plan that will turn the rooftops of supermarkets into urban farmland.
Good Magazine – August 2011
New Company Brings Produce From the Roof to the Supermarket Aisle
Growing produce on your roof is a productive way to take advantage of the space, but is it possible to make it commercially viable on a larger scale?
Crains New York – August 2011
Rooftop farms sprouting in Brooklyn
For consumers here, “local” produce has meant fruits and vegetables from farms upstate, on Long Island or in New Jersey. Urban farmers are trying to shift that expectation.
Edible Manhattan – August 2011
Hyper Local Produce: This Manhattan Company Wants Supermarkets to Raise on the Roof
BrightFarms wants you to forget a 100-mile radius as the definition of what constitutes locally sourced food, and think instead of food grown directly on the roof of your supermarket.
Smart Planet – August 2011
Rooftop local produce – coming soon to a supermarket near you
Thanks to rising fuel costs and the revival of demand for locally grown foods, rooftop greenhouses may soon be cropping up at your supermarket.
The Real Deal – August 2011
Largest hydroponic greenhouse in country planned for Long Island City
The largest rooftop hydroponic greenhouse in the country is close to coming to Long Island City.
New York Daily News – August 2011
The new rooftop farms going up in Queens
Queens is set to become the home of the nation’s largest rooftop hydroponic greenhouse. BrightFarms is gearing up to move its headquarters to Long Island City.
Fast Company – July 2011
Can The Local Food Movement Scale Up?
The local food movement in America is gaining steam. The question is whether can it attract sufficient capital from the private sector to build large, profitable businesses.
The Wall Street Journal – July 2011
Can Farming Make It Big In The City
“…while start-up costs are higher, these [rooftop farms] could pay off with long-term environmental benefits and better tasting veggies.”
The Packer – July 2011
BrightFarms to grow greenhouse vegetables on retail roofs
Some produce marketers apply the term “local” to product grown more than one hundred miles away, possibly in another state, from the stores where it’s being sold. BrightFarms LLC, New York, has a different idea.
The Produce News – July 2011
BrightFarms aims to install greenhouses on the rooftops of supermarkets
In an effort to reduce time, distance and cost in the produce supply chain, a New York firm is proposing to finance, build and operate greenhouses on the rooftops of supermarkets.
Real Leaders – June 2011
The Future of Food
How some forward thinking entrepreneurs have taken traditional methods of food production and consumption and turned them upside down, while still making a profit
Tripple Pundit – June 2011
Are Supermarket Rooftop Farms the Killer App for Local Food?
Every time gas prices go up, local food gets another shot to make its breakthrough to the mainstream. At $4 a gallon, when food in a supermarket travels an average 1,500 miles to get to the store, local food becomes more economically competitive.
New York Times – May 20, 2011
Cash Crops Under Glass and Up on the Roof
It has taken a timely convergence of technologies and consumer attitudes to bring rooftop farming to the fore.
The Economist – Dec 9th, 2010
Vertical Farming
Growing crops in vertical farms in the heart of cities is said to be a greener way to produce food.
The Financial Times – April 2010
Highly Productive
Financial Times reports on new techniques in urban agriculture.
Dan Rather Reports – August 2009
Urban Agriculture
Dan Rather Reports visits The Science Barge to discuss high tech approaches to growing food in the city.
Forbes Magazine – September 2009
Planting The Seeds For Sustainability
Agricultural companies that make sustainability the goal hope to benefit the environment and their bottom lines.
National Geographic – March 2009
Energy At Home
Bringing the Farm to the City: If tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, strawberries, pumpkins, and other crops can grow on a barge in the Hudson River, then why not on New York City rooftops?
Washington Post – September 2009
Raising The Root
Some city dwellers are hoping rooftop farming will bear fruit
Supermarket News – September 2009
Fresh Market
Science – February 3, 2008
Upending the Traditional Farm
Cities are taking over farmland. Could they someday take over the job of farming, too?
Environmental Building News – February 2009
Growing Food Locally
Integrating Agriculture Into the Built Environment
Urban Land Institute – March 2008
Sustainable Urban Agriculture
With over half of the worlds population living in cities, the logic of growing more of our food in cities, closer to the point of consumption, seems overwhelming.
Urban Futures – July 2009
Visionen künftigen Städtebaus und urbaner Lebensweisen
Sustain Magazine – February 2008
The Greenhouse Effect
