The Farmery

Another in what aims to be a long line of proposals for vertical farming solutions, The Farmery offers something that is at least a bit more modest in size and scope - giving me some hope that the ideas related to this media-frenzy will come literally back to earth as we find the sweet spot between vision and reality.


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"The Farmery reinvents small farming to better compete in an industrial farm economy by providing an environmentally sustainable growing and food retailing system that encourages the growth and success of small, environmentally sustainable farms. The Farmery is a four story urban vertical farming and retailing system that allows for small scale, local, organic, community driven agriculture, with the efficiency and profitability of a large industrial farm, without the limitations of climate or availability of agricultural land."


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"The Farmery's growing system is an organic hydropnic and mushroom growing system that provides a continuous yield of local, organic produce regardless of the climate. The Farmery grows gourmet mushrooms inside the shipping containers and small canopy crops such as greens, strawberries and herbs in the greenhouses attached to the side of the containers. The Farmery uses shipping containers as a base structure which houses the mushroom growing rooms, and prep (nursery and planting) for the produce grown in the greenhouses attached to the sides of the container. "


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Some more detailed information about the projects hydroponic growing system: "The Farmery's hydroponic growing system uses vertical sacks that hold the growing substrate inside, the sacks are heat sealed in between growing positions to reduce compaction of the growing substrate. The water and nutrients are fed through the top and taken back to the resevoir located in the shipping container via a channel at the bottom of the sacks. The seedlings are planted at one end and the crops are harvested at the opposite end. The reservoir inside the container allows the nutrient solution's temperature to be controlled easier. Because the nutrient solution mediates the temperature of the root zone, the Farmery will allow a greater range in air temperature inside the greenhouse."


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