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Indoor vertical farming company Square Roots and national food distributor Gordon Food Service have opened a new climate-controlled, indoor farm in Kenosha, Wisc., making locally-grown, fresh leafy ...

A Square Roots worker uses the Farmer Toolbelt app on a phone to monitor the growth of crops in one of the company's vertical farms in this undated photo. Every aspect of crop growth in Square Roots' ...

THE OPERATION. WHAT YOU’RE LOOKING AT HERE IS THE FUTURE OF SUSTAINABLE FARMING, SQUARE ROOTS AND SHEPHERDSVILLE IS GROWING EVERYTHING FROM LEAFY GREENS TO HERBS. AND THE BEST PART IS IT CAN BE RIGHT ...

Square Roots is expanding its indoor farming footprint of teched-out converted shipping containers by co-locating one of its new farms at grocery wholesaler UNFI's distribution center near the Twin ...

KENNETT SQUARE — Mike Bontrager is a game changer. “Money is the fuel of creativity and entrepreneurship,” Bontrager said. “We care more about the impact that is created and feel like money is the ...

90s alt-rock influenced Slow Pulp is one of the acts to catch at this year's Square Roots Festival. Credit: Alexa Viscius Chicago’s outdoor entertainment season arrived this year amid more questions ...

Held by the Lincoln Square Ravenswood Chamber of Commerce and Old Town School of Folk Music, Square Roots brings together the best that Lincoln Square has to offer--all things craft beer, live music, ...

No matter arctic chill or snow outside, the parent company of Cub Foods soon will produce fresh herbs and spring mix all year long. United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI) will partner with New York-based ...

Bob Mould, one of the headliners at Square Roots Festival Credit: Blake Little Photography If you’re as allergic to crowds as I am, Chicago’s many neighborhood music festivals can be a mixed bag. But ...