Vertical Farming Podcast - Conversations with CEOs, Founders & Leaders in AgTech & CEA
Vertical farming is a revolutionary approach to produce production leveraging controlled environment agriculture (CEA) technology and systems in innovative ways. It facilitates production of huge quantities of nutritious and quality fresh food without relying on favorable weather, high water usage, skilled labor, and high soil fertility. This ensures reliable yield and consistency in crop production year-round with climate control, and no effects of external environment factors such as diseases, pests, or predator attacks.
Join Harry Duran, Host of the Apple-recommended Podcast Junkies and Founder of FullCast, as he explores the world of controlled-environment agriculture (CEA). Tune in every week for fascinating conversations with CEOs, Founders and luminaries from the exciting and fast-growing world of Vertical Farming.
If you've been interested in the world of Indoor AgTech and want to hear inspiring stories from the innovators on the frontlines of this fast-moving industry, then this most definitely the show for you!
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- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 179
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
S2E18: Henry Sztul - Technology, R&D & Building Resilient Food Systems
Episode Summary
Join Harry Duran, host of Vertical Farming Podcast, as he welcomes to the show physicist, entrepreneur and self-proclaimed tinkerer, Henry Sztul. Henry is the Chief Science Officer at …
S2E17: John Purcell - Building a Sustainable Future by Falling In Love with the Solution, Not the Science
Episode Summary
Join Harry Duran, host of Vertical Farming Podcast, as he welcomes to the show President and CEO of Unfold, Dr. John Purcell. John has dedicated his life to helping farmers safely and …
S2E16: DeMario Vitalis - Leaving Hydroponics Better Than How He Found It
Join Harry Duran, host of Vertical Farming Podcast, as he welcomes to the show Founder of New Age Provisions, DeMario Vitalis. New Age Provisions is an urban farm that uses state of the art hydroponi…
S2E15: Eddy Badrina - Creating Exponential Positive Change
Join Harry Duran, host of Vertical Farming Podcast, as he welcomes to the show CEO of Eden Green, Eddy Badrina. Eden Green is a vertical farming technology company dedicated to changing the way we fa…
S2E14: Tobias Peggs - Discovering a More Resilient Food System through Vertical Farming
Join Harry Duran, host of Vertical Farming Podcast, as he welcomes to the show co-founder and CEO of Square Roots, Tobias Peggs. Square Roots is an indoor urban farming company that connects people i…
S1E13: Michelle Bonahoom - Lighting the Way Forward: How Heilux is Impacting the AgTech Industry
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 wor…
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…
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 hav…
S1E10: 010 Scott Massey - GroPod: How a Bold Aeroponic Appliance is Changing the AgTech Landscape
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 sizab…
S1E9: 009 Andrew Carter - Distributed Farming: How Smallhold Is Growing and Networking in the Ag Space
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, …
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 …
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 D…
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 gro…
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 Ha…
S1E4: 004 Henry Gordon Smith - Exploring the Socioeconomic Divide in Agriculture
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 a…
S1E3: 003 Stephen Pankhurst - Analyzing the Evolution and Profitability of Vertical Farming
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 or…
S1E2: 002 Louisa Burwood-Taylor - The Biggest Challenges Facing Indoor Agriculture
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 capit…
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…
Vertical Farming Podcast Trailer
In this trailer episode I share the origin story of the Vertical Farming Podcast, including what inspired me to start the show, as well as a preview of the upcoming guests for Season 1. Visit to http…