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(Richmond, VA) Babylon Micro-Farms, Inc., the leading manufacturer of automated indoor vertical farms, today announced the launch of its all-new Micro-Farm, the Galleri.
The Galleri Micro-Farm features an innovative easy-to-clean tray, a water temperature control system, a full-glass enclosure, and an improved sensor array. Together with the BabylonIQ automated growing system and its companion mobile app, it is now easier than ever …
May 23, 2022 -
GROWFOAM®, a premiere plant growth medium has partnered with Babylon to bring their safe, sustainable, and fully compostable solution to indoor Micro-Farms. Over the past 8 months Babylon have done extensive in-house growth tests and customer network tests. Feedback during the customer trials has been overwhelmingly positive.
Dec 07, 2021 -
RICHMOND, VA (JULY 2021) - Babylon Micro-Farms, the intelligent, accessible and market-leading indoor micro-farm company, is excited to announce their partnership with Harvest Table Culinary Group, the pioneering collegiate food service company. To kick off the partnership, Babylon installed their micro-farms in Harvest Table colleges and universities, including University of Virginia, Wake Forest University, Elon University, and S…
Jul 29, 2021 -
Richmond, Virginia, 5.16.21 — In the wake of opening a new corporate headquarters in Richmond, VA in January, Babylon Micro-Farms received a $1M grant with the potential for $750,000 follow-on funding from the National Science Foundation to continue their development of BabylonIQ, an all-inclusive platform for powering decentralized, automated Micro-Farms. The platform is designed to be hardware agnostic, in order to manage a wide …
May 16, 2021 -
Richmond, VA (April 2021) - Babylon Micro-Farms, Inc. installed a vertical farm this week at Brooke Point High School in Stafford County. This is the inaugural pilot program in a Virginia secondary public school which is designed to incorporate STEM learning with an agricultural application. The first farm was installed March 29, 2021.
Tim Roberts, Brooke Point’s principal, who worked closely with Babylon to implement the new progr…
Apr 01, 2021 -
Richmond, VA (March 2021) - Babylon Micro-Farms, Inc., Richmond’s latest addition to it’s fast growing tech scene, has just closed a $3M seed round to fund their move into the national market and continue developing game-changing technology for the rapidly expanding ag tech industry.
Alexander Olesen, CEO of Babylon, sees a lot of momentum in the industry and this is reflected in the company’s performance, the funding demonstrates …
Mar 10, 2021 -
Richmond, VA (February 2021) Babylon Micro-Farms has chosen Richmond, Virginia as the site for their corporate headquarters, opening a new office and R & D space in historic Scott’s Addition. The move from Charlottesville was driven by the company’s growth and need for a larger talent pool - they had been courted by California and Arizona as an up and coming tech company in the indoor ag-tech space.
The company has developed di…
Feb 11, 2021