Grove Labs Inc. just closed on a $2.05 million seed funding round, as VentureWire reported this morning, to launch a business of selling indoor gardening modules to consumers…Saving money will probably not be the reason consumers turn to a Grove Labs product, at least at first, according to both Mr. Blanchet and Robin Brumfield, who is a professor in the department of agricultural, food and resource economics at The State University of New Jersey at Rutgers. (Dr. Brumfield is not affiliated with Grove and first heard of it from a reporter.) In general, indoor gardening is costly, Dr. Brumfield said, comparing it to tanning salons. “Where is the cheapest tanning booth? It’s outside,” she said.
N.J. Coast Faced Historic Wallop From Sandy
The highly unusual weather factors that brought superstorm Sandy to New Jersey caused "the worst coastal battering on record," the state’s official climatologist said in a new report. The early study, released Thursday night by state climatolog…