Farming

  • TechnologyAOL

    Smart vertical farming system allows users to maintain crops from anywhere

    This futuristic looking cube is a smart vertical farming system that allows users to maintain crops at any time and from anywhere. South Korea-based company n.thing's Planty Cubes connect together just like Lego bricks. Every container has

  • NewsAOL

    The farm underneath the streets of London

    In a Second World War air-raid shelter deep under the streets of London, two entrepreneurs are hoping to change perceptions that fresh produce can only be produced on farms in the countryside. The sophisticated subterranean set-up is used to grow

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  • LifestyleAOL

    World's most expensive chilli sells for over $11,000 per pound

    Want to know what will burn a hole in your wallet as well as your mouth? Get ready for your eyes to water both from the hot spicy flavor and from the damage to your bank account . The Charapita is the most expensive chilli pepper in the

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  • NewsAOL

    HRH The Prince of Wales launches new countryside bursary

    HRH The Prince of Wales has met with some of Cumbria's farmers to celebrate the launch of The Prince's Trust Countryside Fund Land Rover Bursary Scheme. The bursary looks to give five young people aged between 21 and 35 the use of a

  • LifestyleAOL

    Fancy a job that gets you away from it all - far away?

    A remote Scottish farm is looking for a new tenant, and when we say remote - we really mean it. The farm is on the island of Gigha, a small Scottish island in the Inner Hebrides. You'll be sharing the island with 160 people on a piece of

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  • ScienceAOL

    Morrisons' Milk for Farmers is not quite what it seems

    The Morrisons Milk for Farmers brand may look like a boost for British farmers, but a new report has suggested it doesn't help anything like as much as you might think. The bottles feature a Union Jack and the statement that Morrisons gives

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  • NewsAOL

    What's wrong with British dairy farmers?

    Dairy farmers are protesting against low milk prices and farmers unions want the government to intervene. Are supermarkets to blame, or is dairy production flawed? Matthew Partridge reports. What's going on? Milk farmers have been

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