Miscellaneous

**Airicist** · 16th December 2015, 14:09

William Metz on the Potential of Drones in Precision Viticulture

Published on Dec 16, 2015

Granted a fellowship by the Villa d'Este Wine Symposium, viticulturalist William Metz spent a year evaluating the potential applications of drones in wine making – flying a senseFly-donated eBee mapping UAV at 15 vineyards across France, Switzerland and Germany. Here William summarises his project and describes the potential value drones can bring to the wine making process.

**Airicist** · 29th December 2015, 17:12

Open Garden - Hydroponics & Garden Plants Monitoring for Arduino

**Airicist** · 27th January 2016, 03:57

"Robot arm sorts and stacks delicate fruits"

by Matthew Stock
January 26, 2016

**Airicist** · 1st February 2016, 02:54

Agras MG-1, agriculture drone, DJI Innovations, Guangdong, China

**Airicist** · 2nd February 2016, 06:07

Earthrise - Japan's Future Farms

Published on May 26, 2015

By 2050, the world will need to feed an additional 2.5 billion people living in cities. Yet as the demand for food rises, the amount of land available for agriculture in developed countries is expected to decline.

In Japan, at the Fujitsu factory of Aizu-Wakamatsu which still manufactures semiconductor chips for computers, a different project is underway which may offer a solution to this problem.

The company has converted an unused part of the factory into a farm to grow food - and more specifically, to grow lettuce. Fujitsu has focused on growing a low-potassium variety, which is sold to people with kidney problems who cannot process the mineral properly.

Join Rachel Mealey in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture to visit the sun-free and soil-free urban farms of the future.