Farm Urban were invited to participate in meeting about the Future of Food organised by RE-WORK in London last Tuesday. RE-WORK is “an all-female run events organising company that brings together breakthrough technology, cutting-edge science and entrepreneurship shaping the future
Farm Urban win the Duke of York Young Enterprise Award
We are incredibly honoured that Farm Urban have been awarded the prestigious Duke of York Young Enterprise Award. Paul from Farm Urban received the award from Prince Andrew at the award ceremony at Huddersfield University on Tuesday. We are grateful
Aquaponics explained with graphics
The team at www.fix.com have created a nice set of graphics to explain how aquaponics works and asked us to share them. Fix is an american website that allows people to find and buy parts to repair their domestic applicances;
LED Light and Horticulture
This is our first guest blog post By Rory Wilding. Rory is Commercial Director at Which LED Light. At Which LED Light we are big fans of all things LED and the applications of LED technology in horticulture continue to showcase
STEAM Co. at the UTC
Science, technology and engineering have always been key themes for Farm Urban, as two of us come from a PhD background in biosciences. We like to think of ourselves as a renaissance team though and have always had a foot in
GO GREEN: Eco initiatives STEM Hub
We recently took part in a STEM GO GREEN eco initiative at the University of Liverpool student guild. Seeing as they have written a post about, we don’t have to!
Food for Real Festival 2015
The amazing folks at Squash Nutrition have been running the Food for Real Festival film festival in Liverpool for several years and it is one of the highlights in the Scouse foodie calendar. The festival brings the very local and the
The world’s first Aquaponic Double-Helix
As part of our enrichment program at the UTC, we asked the pupils to help us design an exhibition piece for the STEM Big Bang Fair, that took place at Aintree Racecourse on 8th July 2014. The aim of the
Enriching the UTC
Education is a one of the core values of Farm Urban, and as part of our education outreach, we’ve been running an aquaponics enrichment program at Liverpool’s pioneering UTC life science’s college. Situated in an imposing red-brick converted warehouse in