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WHERE ALL GROW CORN, THIS FARM GROWS LETTUCE
I finally got to check out an indoor hydroponic farm and see how a farmer is growing lettuce in the middle of corn country..
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THE POLLINATION PICKLE OF INDOOR FARMING
A few months ago, I wrote a post about how the farms in the future could go indoors. I had looked at some of the pros and cons of indoor farming and had barely scratched the surface. So I dived a little deeper and found this really interesting challenge as the nascent indoor farming industry […]
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Is the future of farming indoors?
As we face an uncertain future with rapid climate change, and global supply chain disruptions, there are several concerns about food production safety and food security..
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A day in my life as a Manufacturing Engineer
My employer, NSK Corporation, is a world renowned Japanese company that manufactures a whole array of bearings. I work at their facility in Clarinda, Iowa, that supplies ball bearings to major automobile makers all over the world. The bearing is a fairly simple product, but the components that makes up a bearing go through multiple […]
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Quarter-life crossroads
I turned 25 in January this year and now that I have completed my education and have a job, that puts me in the “settled” category of the natural order of things. Honestly, I do no feel that way. Recently, I was watching Taylor Tomlinson’s Netflix special “Quarter-life Crisis”, which was hilarious and I didn’t […]
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The West Coast Trip: Second leg
The first leg of the west coast trip ended in San Francisco having spanned the southern parts of California all the way to San Diego. This is where the second leg began, with two of my friends and a rented car. We had meticulously planned this trip to go through California, Nevada, Oregon, and all […]
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Thanksgiving in Chicago.
Thanksgiving is the time when you are grateful for all the good things in life.I am very thankful for the week-long break that I got in the hectic life. Being in Ames, which is a small town makes you want to go out and explore. So for the break we 9 friends decided to do a […]
Shubham Khoje 