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Season 1

Sept. 23, 2020

S1E13: Michelle Bonahoom - Lighting the Way Forward: How Heilux is Im…

Join Harry Duran, host of Vertical Farming Podcast, as he welcomes to the show Interim CEO at Heilux, Michelle Bonahoom. In this episode, Harry and Michelle talk all about what’s happening in the world of lighting and it’s im...

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Sept. 11, 2020

S1E12: David Farquhar - Leveraging Science and Scale

Join Harry Duran, host of Vertical Farming Podcast, as he welcomes back to the show CEO of Intelligent Growth Solutions, David Farquhar. In this episode, Harry and David talk all about the resounding economic and societal imp...

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Aug. 25, 2020

S1E11: Alex Tyink - Fork Farms: Growing Food for Positive Change

Alex Tyink is the President of Fork Farms, an organization that started on the principle that growing fresh and healthy food is a vehicle for positive change in the world. It is their belief that having consistent access to t...

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Aug. 16, 2020

S1E10: 010 Scott Massey - GroPod: How a Bold Aeroponic Appliance is C…

Scott Massey is the Founder and CEO of Heliponix, an organization that provides consumers with the GroPod, an aeroponic appliance that can yield a full head of leafy greens on a daily basis, or sizable harvests of dwarf varie...

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Aug. 3, 2020

S1E9: 009 Andrew Carter - Distributed Farming: How Smallhold Is Growi…

Andrew Carter is the co-founder and CEO at Smallhold the first, and only, organic farm in NYC. Andrew is a greenhouse and vertical farming specialist, with extensive experience with baby cut greens, lettuce, basil, tomatoes, ...

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July 21, 2020

S1E8: 008 Virginia Emery - Frass Happens: Dissecting Insect Farming

Virginia Emery is an entrepreneur with a passion for insects and the founder and CEO of Beta Hatch, a company that grows insects as sustainable protein for animal feed. Virginia’s current mission is the save the world by bree...

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July 10, 2020

S1E7: 007 Nicola Kerslake - Funding the Indoor AgTech Space

Nikola Kerslake is a registered investment adviser and founder of Contain, a fintech platform for indoor agriculture that aids indoor farmers in finding lease funding for their projects. Join Harry Duran, host of Vertical Far...

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June 29, 2020

S1E6: 006 Dave Ridill - From Paramedic Firefighter to Vertical Farmer

Dave Ridill is a hydroponic farmer as well as the owner and head of operations at Clawson Greens, an organization that supplies Teton Valley and surrounding areas with fresh clean greens, locally grown year-round. Join Harry ...

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June 18, 2020

S1E5: 005 Jon Friedman - A Green Mind

Jon Friedman is the COO and co-founder of Freight Farms, an organization that provides agricultural products and services that enable on-site commercial food production anywhere in the world. Join Harry Duran, host of Vertica...

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June 10, 2020

S1E4: 004 Henry Gordon Smith - Exploring the Socioeconomic Divide in …

Henry Gordon Smith is a global AgTech leader, speaker and founder of Agritecture, a global leader in urban agriculture consulting services. Join Harry Duran, host of Vertical Farming Podcast, as he and Henry discuss the busin...

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May 29, 2020

S1E3: 003 Stephen Pankhurst - Analyzing the Evolution and Profitabili…

Join Harry Duran, host of Vertical Farming Podcast, as he welcomes to the show process improvement engineer and vertical farming expert, Stephen Pankhurst. In this episode, Stephen talks about the origin story of his wildly p...

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May 20, 2020

S1E2: 002 Louisa Burwood-Taylor - The Biggest Challenges Facing Indoo…

Join Harry Duran, host of Vertical Farming Podcast, as he welcomes to the show AgTech journalist, Louisa Burwood-Taylor. As a journalist and editor, Louisa covers foodtech, agriculture, venture capital investment and corporat...

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May 5, 2020

S1E1: 001 David Farquhar - It's Time For the Industry to Grow Up

Join Harry Duran, host of Vertical Farming Podcast, as he welcomes to the show serial entrepreneur and CEO of Intelligent Growth Solutions, David Farquhar. In this episode, Harry and David break down the emergence of vertical...

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