FOCUS Urban Farms LLC

05/31/2024

04/03/2024

Check out the latest from Green Side Up Vertical Farms
https://youtu.be/dKfcKKSGe2U?si=3aJ1fJLdQDQqvIff

02/06/2024

Diversity and Inclusion means changing how you think, especially when the landscape around you changes. The Historic West Side of Las Vegas has changed and will continue to change with people wanting an opportunity to thrive and not just survive. Food has no face beside the ones who grow for the people, not a race, not a religion and not an orientation. Food is just that common denominator among us all. It is hard to be a racist and eat, why? because our diets are as diverse as the world. So...let's grow a new story a new future.

Researchers are now studying the effects of vertical farming as new companies attempt to introduce vertical farming in Mexico.

12/15/2022

Green Side Up Vertical Farming and Related Technologies Class. Tonight's Topic: GROWING POWER-Understanding Urban Systems and the story of Will Allen. Special discussion about Rosalind Brooks and Vegas Roots Community Garden and the power of the community.

12/28/2021

Infarm has raised $200 million in a Series D funding round, giving the organization a valuation of over $1 billion.

12/28/2021

https://www.freshfruitportal.com/news/2021/12/16/infarm-raises-200m-to-accelerate-vertical-farm-expansion/

Infarm has raised $200 million in a Series D funding round, giving the organization a valuation of over $1 billion.

12/27/2021

Not a bad vege garden. 🙏🏻👍🏻💚

This is the Eden Project in Cornwall, England. It's a demonstration of a 'polyculture' garden with flowers and greens interplanted to decrease susceptibility to pests and diseases.

12/25/2021

Vertically grown strawberries in Oklahoma?

12/09/2021

Strawberries are back! From the fkeld to the greenhouse we go. We also have young strawberries plants for sale.

12/08/2021

Zombie Strawberries

12/08/2021

We used clover as a cover crop to reduce weeds as part of our regenerative farming practice.

12/08/2021

Then some tall greens.

12/04/2021

BCS TRACTOR SERVICE.

We now offer small plot brush and small tree clearing as well as microfarm raised bed and tilling service. We are able to help with raised beds in high tunnels as well as the installation of plasticculture for small areas.

10/20/2021

10/16/2021

10/16/2021

A big thank you to some of our many lenders through Kiva lending peogram. In less than a week we are 73% funded which is amazing. This loan will help us get closer to getting FOCUS Urban Farms LLC fully up and growing for the community.

10/10/2021

Patty pans are popping

10/10/2021

Hello, dear community! Be sure to check out Uprooted & Rising Indian Territory at our forth distribution this weekend! It will be at the OCRA -Oklahoma Coalition for Revolutionary Action mutual aid fair at Nappy Roots Books , 12- 4 PM!

As always, we greatly appreciate all the labor and solidarity of our partners in OCRA: Autonomous Brown Berets of Oklahoma Oklahoma City Democratic Socialists Oklahoma Tenants United Student Socialist League OPP and Oklahoma People's Party

Much love to all of our producer partners: FOCUS Urban Farms LLC , Black Soil Urban Farm In The Family Farms Nothin’ but Greens Plantdad’s Kitchen National Women In Agriculture Association Mskwa Ki Farms and Lillian Timber Farms .

BIG shoutout to our donors this month who helped us SURPASS our $600 goal. We are now past $3000 on our way to the season goal of $5000. All of the money donated goes towards purchasing and redistributing nourishing, culturally appropriate, local foods from BIPOC farmers 💚💚💚💚.

Please help us grow this program by donating to and sharing our mutual aid GoFundMe, go to bit.ly/GoFundWeFeedUs.

To join our team, go to bit.ly/JoinUNRNDN ✨.

If you are a BIPOC producer who would like to sell to us, or if you know of others, please let us know 🌱. Community knowledge is our power!

MUCH gratitude to all who have helped make this possible.

10/09/2021

We have only just begun.

10/09/2021

The literature of geography and related disciplines refers to low income areas where there is little or no access to healthful foods as ‘food deserts’. One crucial area of concern in the food desert literature is the definition of a food desert. Past

10/03/2021

https://medium.com//vertical-farming-is-amazons-next-bold-step-d3cc9b3292d1

tl;dr vertical farming complements Amazon’s business model, the Whole Foods acquisition, Jeff Bezos’s ambitions, and Amazon’s capabilities…

10/03/2021

https://nationswell.com/church-farms-feed-hungry/

Churches own thousands of acres of land across the U.S., and some see that as an opportunity for farming projects to help feed students and families.

10/03/2021

10/03/2021

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/25/904284865/make-farmers-black-again-african-americans-fight-discrimination-to-own-farmland

There is a growing movement of young farmers led by people of color in the Northeast but barriers to accessing funding and land remain. The family behind Triple J Farm in Windsor, N.Y., knows this.

09/26/2021

Africa is making an impact in vertical farming and related technologies that we rarely here about.