PRESS RELEASE Friday 19th June 2020 Future Farm Technology Expo (FFT Expo) is delighted to announce that the UK urban vertical farm association Urban AgriTech UK (UKUAT) has joined Future Farm Technology Expo as an official show partner. UKUAT will be working with the team at FFT Expo to help promote, educate and support UKUAT exhibiting members and connecting the UK urban vertical farming industry to suppliers, the farming community and leading agtech players. FFT Expo will run from 11th to 12th of November 2020 in co-location with the Farm Business Innovation Show at the NEC Birmingham. Mark Horler, Chairman and Founder of UKUAT commented “We are very excited to announce UKUAT’s partnership with FFT Expo, and to have the…

“Essentially, the places where we work should be just as important as the places we live”. (CBRE) The current lockdown has raised lots of questions about the future of the workplace and how it may change going forward. Square Mile Farms believe in the enduring importance of the office. For us, the current situation, with Covid-19 keeping us at home, has just highlighted this further, although it’s also raised some of the issues with office working that we want to help solve! While there are some pros to working from home, it’s hard to replicate the benefits of face-to-face interaction with colleagues at the office. When we go back to work, our relationships with our workplaces will inevitably change. Having…

Imagine… The year is 2050. From all over the world leaders of mega-cities gather for working visits. More and more cities have become prime examples of well organised, clean, smart and innovative societies that are operating without any unnecessary laws or regulations and have managed to be entirely self-sufficient. In these cities along the water, the air is clean, energy is free and the food is healthy. Information is everywhere, making it easy for people to organise their lives, which is necessary, because there is no large central government. Almost everything is decentralised, and everyone lives in their own community with their own ecosystem. The perfect example of the circular economy. Metropolitan areas as sustainable deltas. Priva campus and De…

We believe that there is a clear need for Urban AgriTech in the UK, and we intend to advocate for that and to show clearly how it can help the UK to develop better food systems for all. The only constant is change. It’s a truism, but the outcomes are profound. For an example, you only need to look at Brexit in the UK. Whatever your political opinion on the European Union, it is undeniable that the world is, in many ways, radically different to how it was four decades ago when we joined the Common Market. The effects of this change are immensely complex and no one really knows how it will all turn out in the end. Brexit…

It started out with a group of perhaps 5 people. Mark Horler, our founder, brought these people together to just have a chat about the industry in the UK. The short version, though it may seem hard to believe now, is that there really wasn’t that much of an industry in this country then. There were only a handful of companies developing tech and systems as well as a couple of universities with an interest in the general area. However, slowly but surely, that number began to grow, and so did the number of people in that little group. At some point in late 2017, it was agreed that we ought to give it a name, and so UK Urban…