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- Vertical farming with Tower Gardens is on the 'rise' and rightfully so. You can grow a variety of plants without ANY soil and 90% LESS water. It also requires 10x less space so you can do a lot more in a smaller area. That means easily growing fresh herbs, fruits, vegetables, and flowers both indoors and out. And because everything is grown and picked fresh, the flavor is unbelievable!
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I want to see charts, numbers, what does it cost, is this doable everywhere, is this renewable, energy efficient, etc etc, and comparisons to conventional farming
@@RainCity3rd Let's not forget all plastic that's being put into the environment doing it this way. Also losing all microbiology you get the soil is a big no-no for any type of farming. Can't expect plants that for millions of years that rely on beneficial fungi to suddenly not have them anymore.
The cost for example is also way too high for example the largest vertical farming being built is being done by AeroFarm and will cost $40M USD. (which will produce an estimate 2 million pounds of produce a year) At the same cost you could buy 5000 acres in Iowa and in worst case scenarios produce at 125 million pounds of greens.
@@SmugLlama1234 but you also need to invest in all of the machinery for the farm where the vertical farm number you quoted likely includes. Also the real farm uses a ton more energy and I suspect a greater environmental footprint as need for weeding take a lot of energy and chemicals. That plastic should work fine for decades so I don't know if it's releasing much more than farming. Again this is good where the soil is terrible and where water is scarce.
Is this going to replace farms? No. Is this a good alternative to continue to innovate especially is in water scare sunny places, Shure why not.
@@SmugLlama1234 I can't imagine how they could be even with how intensive mordern farming is. Using some 3 field system sure it hobby farm but not industrial with the need to rejuvenate the depleted soil and deal with weeds, pests etc. How admitted we are exactly comparing apples to apples here because this vertical farm isn't nearly at the scale to be much more than demonstration. Would need much more automatic systems for seedlings, planting and harvesting. Again I see a place for both. A little tower in the backyard could do a lot for most houses and much closer to home which is great considering transportation is the big elephant in the room for any large scale centralized system of food production. Where land is valuable such as urban environments this is really neat. Of we can even grow more of our food at home or close that is a big deal. Cuba does this very well out, as they have to.
@@SmugLlama1234 You could build those towers from hempcrete with chicken wire inside, that way you could reduce a ton of plastic, if plastic is what you worry about.
One thing I have been looking into, and I suggest others to look into as ell, is the Greenhouse Gas emissions from Greenhouses needed to grow in this way. I have found that rather than growing using Hydroponics or Aeroponics, a preferable alternative would be implementing Permaculture methods into agriculture. If we focused on working in harmony with nature and following in mother natures footsteps, we can be very productive and also very ecologically conscious. Mother nature is the best gardener after all.
We should never get rid of some natural gardens or farming, but places like this should pop up all over. In cities, in dry or unfarmable areas. This would be such a helpful addition.
There will always be at least some conventional farming. Corn and wheat for example, cannot be grown vertically because of the height of the stalk. Apples, Peaches, Oranges and so on must be grow in orchards because of the structural nature of the tree. There is no one-size-fits-all solution, but that's also the beauty of it.
Yeah for both pesticide use and destroying forests for farming it would be nice.
Would love to see that coming
not part of the system
@Ferdinand Vardas I noticed that. The problem is Town and Cities being overly ambitious with Rental Properties and Property Taxes.
*it's not this or that, it's this AND that! We need both*
I like how down to earth and friendly like a normal-every day person this reporter was.
Some people might see it differently because the way our internet is (words that come to mind: authoritative, ignorant, perfect, etc.)
It's nice to see someone that's genuinely curious and respectful.
We 100% agree!
"O my God, it can grow with just this amount of soil!" The man literally mentioned that it was made out of coconut husk ...
A tikthot
soil is mad from the breakdown of biological materials... she's technically not wrong. The coconut husk will eventually break down and become soil.
Not the brightest button in the box!
@@boysteacher3818 you are considered dead since, albeit you are alive now, you will one day die.. see the ridiculousness of your statement
Figured I'd chime in here on the comments about plastic, and the nutrient solutions.
The plastic these towers are made of is all UV stabilized and fully food grade, certified to not leech anything into the water, or food grow in the system. And while many have said this is unsustainable since plastic is usually petrol based... you need to take into consideration the massive amount of petroleum used to grow and transport produce to our grocery stores - if you have a lot of land and can grow your own without a compact system like this that is fantastic, but there are millions of people who don't have that luxury, and this system allows them to grow their own instead of relying on our giant gas guzzling agricultural system.
As for the nutrient solutions, they are simply earth and sea based minerals. Minerals, by definition, are NOT organic (chemistry defines the term 'organic' as carbon based substances). That said, there is no petroleum or other chemicals used in the nutrients. They are the same minerals you'd get from growing plants in soil, so if you grow food with this system, while the nutrient solutions themselves can't be called organic since they are just minerals, all the food grown in it with this solution could/would be organic unless you chose to spray or use other additives.
A few things I absolutely LOVE about this system vs soil gardening, and why I grow with 3 of them myself even though I have a sunny 1/4 acre I also grow some soil based gardens on:
1) it allows people who wouldn't otherwise have the space/time/knowledge to grow their own food to now be able to do so, which in turn empowers people to take ownership of where their food comes from and to make better health choices for them and their families
2) Growing your own food allows you to eliminate not only the tons of herbicides/pesticides/petrol etc that our national agriculture relies on, but also eliminates plastic grocery store bags, gas to and from store/shipping/etc, and tons of food waste.
3) since these towers are a closed loop system, there is zero runoff into our waterways etc and it also protects the food you are growing from contamination,
4) the University of Mississippi, one of the best agricultural research centers in the US, studies these systems compared to soil based gardening, and found that this system met or exceeded what could be produced in the ground on everything from growth rate, yields, disease and pest resistance, and end nutritional content of the produce itself.
5) Growing with this system allows you to grow a garden with up to 90-95% less water than conventional gardening requires to grow a similar crop, and in a time where access to clean water is becoming an ever increasing problem, this is a huge win.
Thanks Jeremy.
Really wish you were the one covering this and not this Grateful rep lmao.
Thanks for the thesis...lol. good stuff!!
I suggest you read "Merchants of Doubt". As this becomes more popular the agrochemical industry will come after this with FUD.
How does it really use that much less water?
She didn't seem to be on the same wavelength as this guy, which led to her being fascinated and not necessarily asking the important questions.
Ivan Ooze correct is a conspiration ! I don’t buy the white metal or plastic holding up all those plants . Because it’s going to release some chemicals components .... then plants will absorb them anyway ......
totally agree, I learned only how fachined she was - nothing useful.
@@Kassiusday Compared to the amount of high degradation plastic used in agricultural grade plastic, using a high grade plastic like what is in those grow towers, especially if kept in temperatures lower than 85º F, compared to the high heat direct UV exposed tunnels most of your greens comes from the comparison isn't even on the same chart of exposure. As this technology becomes more and more popular, make no mistake, you will find a "merchants of doubt" style offensive from the agrochemical industry.
@@Kassiusday Oh come on..!
@@Kassiusday yeah, no. ignorance and personal incredulity is not a good ground to build a premise on.
I actually find this creative and sustainable just basing it on the fact that its using less land and less water (which is quite the need of the hour) and even then producing good quality vegetables. and even if some people might consider it 'unsustainable' it at least is an effort towards being better!
You throw around "sustainable" like you have the slightest fucking idea what the word means.
Firstly, land is the most sustainable resource on the planet... it IS the planet! There is farmland that's been used for thousands of years- good luck in ten years finding a single piece of PVC in an aeroponics garden that's survived the decade. Oh, did I mention that it's literally growing plants in plastic? You know, plastic from CRUDE OIL? So sustainable.
"Less water"- do you even know what "water" is? You seem to be under the unfathomably ignorant delusion that irrigation water comes from Dasani bottles. The truth is that 46% of produce sold (by cost) didn't require any irrigation at all- it was watered only by the most sustainable source of water- rain. The remaining 54% was watered mostly through the same rain but with additions of only slightly filtered water or through flood irrigation, where rainwater flows through canals to the farmland- no trucking, no pumping, no gas- wholly sustainable.
This shit? You use petrochemicals to make the freaking tubes, petrochemicals to fuel the pumps, petrochemicals TO LITERALLY BE THE BUILDING. The only thing less sustainable would be to GROW CROPS IN LITERAL OIL.
Every sizeable (and that could be as small as thousands of people) community could have a bunch of these indoor vertical farms for their year-round local food supply needs.
Why is this not everywhere? Fake hold ups. Yes. Not because we can't technically do this. Not because it isn't efficient. Sure there are some complications to sort out, but that can be done. The hold up is we are trying to pound a square peg into a round hole. The round hole is the infinite growth, profit maximizing monetary-market system that the world uses currently as an 'economy' with the square peg that is: Environmental and mental health and sustainability. That's what we want, but we can't get there in the wrong sort of economy.
But we can change. It won't be easy. But it's possible. Dare I say, inspiring, if you know where to look. Look at all the systems we could be using: Circular Economy, Open-Access Economy or Natural Law Resource Based Economy. Never heard of them? Not surprised. The super rich ownership class don't exactly wanting people to know about it. However, that shouldn't stop you.
Plenty plans to build a giant vertical farm near every major city
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@@coolioso808 The WEF has talked quite a bit about a Circular Economy and those people are the super rich ownership class you are referring to.
@@chazaqs9109 The WEF folks can talk about whatever they want to talk about, and they have talked about a lot of things, but what's your point? Forget them, they aren't going to control your life and mind unless you let them over fear and paranoia.
What I'm talking about is system thinking. The system we have now of monetary-market capitalism is socially, economically and environmentally unsustainable. It already has a tiny minority of super rich owners. In the capitalist game, they have already won that game of Monopoly. And the system will run off course and take most of humanity down with it if we don't talk about what really matters: System change.
Start local. The WEF aren't in your local town are they? So, read as much as you can and learn as much as you can about systems, science and Natural Law. If the '-isms' are distracting you, don't let them. Keep looking at the facts and figures until you understand the root problem and then you can work on viable solutions, such as building up local self-sustainable communities with co-ops that people choose to engage in and benefit from by creating abundance of basic needs for all who want it. That's a practical, possible solution. Worrying about the WEF is not.
Love this video and will start this on my new farm! Moving in a couple weeks! So excited!! ❤️❤️❤️
Troy: "I am a Pharmacist"
Reporter: " Troy is a Pharmacist"
Hahah she was pretty useless. I think he could have just talked to the camera.
yeah shes quite the lump of coal.
I stopped watching exactly at this point because of this, combined with her previously useless narration of describing that it is a bunch of veggies growing on towers, while showing us the video where we can deduce that ourselves.
She is typical youtube trash journalism.
We are the Borg lol 😀😀
I love being able to see this kind of farming, but I feel like she just seemed to be more interested in the aesthetic of the place than the science and methodology behind the plants. And like other people have said, she didn't seem to be on the same wavelength as the guy, and thus didn't really ask many important questions. I think she should have been more informed before going. However, he was really interesting.
Bra.. it's a red headed female what'd you expect?
The fact that the guy mentioned using coconut husk as the soil for the plant had my wheels turning.
@Awenda This system is a hydroponic system. The vertical columns are a much more efficient way to manage and distribute nutrient-rich water. These indoor systems are designed for year-round growing. In this system, it's optimised for leafy greens and herbs.
Commercial hydroponic systems are capable of producing enough produce that can feed well beyond 100 people a day. The crops you mentioned (potatoes, corn, cabbage, broccoli) can't be grown in a vertical system. However, there are many other methods growing methods for hydroponics.
This video just does a woeful job in explaining anything. It's solely the presenter's fault for being more interested in the looks rather than the functionality.
Awenda what’s your evidence?
@@Shady36 He specifically says it's not soil, it's coconut husk, when she calls it soil.
When you look at the embodied energy of any product, one of, if not the largest component is the energy to transport the item to your door. If these farms popped up locally, and cold be competitive on price, this would be good for people's health and for the environment.
"the vegetables we saw at true garden were just growing, right there."
Thank you for this amazing insight 😐. Good lord could they have picked a worse person to report on this.
W
I thought the same thing. She sounds snotty talking to him too
You are so right. Just horrible.
Ya, totally ruined an otherwise great concept. Really unfortunate and very annoying to watch.
Blonde vibe
troy: im a licensed pharmacist
interviewer: troy is a licensed pharmacist
me: troy is a licensed pharmacist?
It's true.
@@5minuteswiththefarmacist548 I think what keno castro meant was that the interviewer was just unnecessarily repeating what you said.
Yes, my sarcasm didn’t translate well via text.
@@5minuteswiththefarmacist548 hahaha
I think Troy might be a licensed pharmacist but I'm not sure...
An intelligent man who saw a need in his community and acted on it! The world in a good place if there continues to be people like Troy 💚
That’s so true. Such projects usually have a team, funds and investors who help and support them. So they all contribute to making our world a better place🌱
First saw one of these towers in instagram, feel in love with the green colours 😂
Never done a day of farming or even looked after a plant but I wanna have a greenhouse full of these just to look at that stunning green of nature 😅
I appreciate that They found someone who clearly had never visited a farm or garden before. Her genuine surprise and interest was fun to watch.
Indeed, it was like she had never been out of the house.
Totally, like she didn't even read about it bofore getting there
Bruh, she has no idea what's going on. Instead of asking anything important, she focuses on how good it looks
That's all a woman ever focuses on,how it looks..lol
King
Most, not all. Sweeping generalizations are usually not constructive.
@@philipking8475 that's what she said!
It's the most realistic tbh.
"it's getting all these nutrient.......... substances" made me want to blow my brains out lol
Could've done more with some intellectual questions and less "oMg tHiS iS sOo prEttY"
🙄 so useful comment 😅 🤍
@@lookup5610 I like that ! Thank you 💗
Is it a Jewish song ?
@Mahder Aklilu ok thank you !
🤣🤣🤣👍😎💞
God bless her she was funny
I really like the development of agriculture in the future which makes agriculture no longer underestimated and this video has discussed the fact that with just a little land and water you can produce good vegetables (vertical farming). thanks for the video!!!
These sorts of vertical farms are invaluable for reducing the field space required for plants that perform well in hydroponic and aquaponic setups and freeing up space for crops that do not do well in or can not be grown in hydroponic environments.
Bill gates approves
@@nephilimshammer9567 you will own nothing and you will be happy. :^)
this can also stop deforestation for farm land.
@@thekingpin7193 True as well or allow farms to produce tree crops with net carbon negative impacts.
Destiny Identification direction
Well lets all appreciate, that she tried her best to shed light on an awesome topic.
True! ;) Aeroponics-the technology Tower Garden uses-is the process of growing plants in an air or mist environment, without the use of soil. It is the most effective and efficient way to provide plants with the necessary nutrients, hydration and oxygen.
Towers can be purchased at rxformulations.towergarden.com
Email us @info@truegarden.com when you have made your purchase and we will send you a coupon so you can fill your tower for the first time with seedlings from us for FREE! Thank You!
- Admin
Her "best" wasn't very good, though.
nurse here. when I talk to most other nurses about food nutrition they look at me like I have 3 arms. this guy speaks everything I talk of. "meds are bandaids". "everyone's micronutrition is off". great guy, keep spreading the good work.
best of 3 in one! 90% less land, 90% more food and healthier food. true engineer of farming right here! thank you for sharing.
10000% more electricity
@@user-tp4fr4ij1p We can generate clean power easier than we can make more land.
Utilizing all forms of farming and making them all work in harmony seems to be the most sufficient way. Keeping progression to newer and better ways of doing things should he the main focus
"Dirt flavor...?" What parts have you been eating?
The roots i guess 😂
@@xavierdunn7087 BURN 😂
Perhaps you are too young to ever experience eating leafy greens and biting on some dirt.
Actually salad that's been grown in soil tastes different from salad that's been grown in water, and if your palette is fine enough you can even know the different types of soil the salad was grown in... I personally hate the taste of hydroponic salad and actually get stomach aches from it
@@joannot6706 na just rinse our veges and such
This is a perfect example for what infotainment does with an interesting topic that would be worth exploring the details of.
And how it produces an audience of ignorami just educated enough to feel strongly about a topic but too naive to understand that everything has pros and cons.
Just like with most obscure tech, aeroponics s cool but it's highly situational, and people who watch infotainment without using their brains will overlook that every time.
@@rockspoon6528 You are wise.
In this case, I’m going with bimbotainment. Her voice and presentation are horrible. And that dress is for a night out or a wedding, not an interview.
Thank you for making this video! I am planning to make a similar setup that can produce fresh vegetables year round for my family to eat.
when i discovered a few years ago that plants dont need soil when they get the nutrients through the water i was completley blown away
Where do you think the nutrients come from... this is like claiming the dictionary is a novel thing because it has the most unique words in it of any book.
@@rockspoon6528 chill man he’s just being honest. There’s nothing wrong with not knowing something
@@samshaw1443 You've completely missed the point.
@@rockspoon6528 can you explain?
@@samshaw1443 The conclusion that "plants don't need soil" is only valid if you don't bother to take into account where the nutrient slurries come from which are used in aeroponics, where the water comes from that's used, where the electricity comes from that pumps the water... aeroponics uses MORE soil than any other growing method, and also more fossil fuels.
Also, there isn't "nothing wrong with not knowing something", that's a platitude. There's a lot wrong with not knowing certain things, and even more with failing to make the most blatantly obvious connections when presented with all the necessary information.
"It's so crazy how what you put in your body affects everything..." - Why does it amaze people that what you put in your body affects you?
Apparently even our president doesn't even understand this fact. Lysol injections.. my god lol
Not people, just the interviewer
@@michaelsotomayor5001 only he *never* said that.
He was trolling birx (or whatever she's called)
Lot of vaccines have "detergent"like chemicals in, think he was making subtle points about the f'd up profit driven big pharma industry.
It's a worldwide filter called windbag test (Me, 2021)
This man has such a huge variety of growth here that I would love to visit this place someday to try it!
" Now I know what my bouquet is going to be for my wedding! "
Not only are aeroponics useful for farming, they're beautiful to look at!
This should teach everyone. Before you do an interview, you have to educate yourself about the interviewee and the topic so you can gather substantial data. Finding a nice feature entry isn't enough!!!!
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The beauty of this is that we can have these farms in our cities so that the transportation cost is cheaper as well. Almost half of our vegetable prices consists of high transportation costs for bringing these from rural areas into urban areas.
Yes and in suburban places or on the country side we could have perma culture gardens to provide living space for animals and grow food
You likely don't make food cheaper by growing it in the cities. Expensive land costs.
@@miyabe_k195 czcams.com/video/Z0z1G6sgtQ4/video.html
Dense cities are inherently unsustainable. It's idiotic to put a band-aid on someone's amputated limb.
@@miyabe_k195 Not all environments are suitable for farming, let alone being able to produce year round by controlling temperature and light cycles.
How cool. Planning to farming my yard and stumbled on this video. Thanks much!!
Thinking to do the same - grow many with this hydroponics system, and plant in the garden what it can't grow - carrots, asparagus, celery, pumpkin, etc.!
Stable and dependable electricity supply is paramount for these. One power outage from a thunderstorm caused me to loose all my plants.
I also lost all my plants due to a pump failure while I was asleep. If a pump failure happens while you are asleep couple of hours will kill your plants. Some sort of alarm system is needed to alert you to a problem with the water cycling.
You better have a backup pump for each tower.
White towers let enough light in to let algae to grow
I painted mine black to end this algae growth problem.
I'd like to see this turned into a documentary where details about the financial aspects and details about the nutrition solution are explored. This is Space Age agriculture. I can see obvious advantages but would like to see the scale up cost in the documentary. Thank you for the video.
add a fish pond below ... the fish feed on algae ... they poop in the water ... the water feeds the plants the plants clean the water ... and back to the fish it goes ... there you now have your garden and a fish pond with dinner growing in it along with your garden ... heck add a worm bed compost fish feeder and now you also grow worms to feed the fish and break down your garden trash again putting nutrients back into the water ... and so on ... as for cost ... how much does it cost for a 12 inch diameter section of drain pipe and say 16 feet of 2inch abs ... and some adhesive ... and tubing and a pump ... and of course a room with good light you can put it ... and a tub for the fish ... and now you have a fish feeding pond and garden that also supplies your meat and fresh veg as needed ...
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aquaponics ... is where you combine the garden and the fish huggle culture is where you close the loop even further by including the bits needed to compost down the waste materials back into useful nutrients for the system ... from adding may fly larva to worms to ducks and chickens ... etc ... you can make a complete self supporting garden that will supply meat veg and even eggs in small scale ... or if made into a major deal can provide cow feed and increase garden production by a HUGE amount ...
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all in all for basic system you can build it for under $1,000 bucks .... and use it for years ... so how many veg would it have to produce to pay for itself ... if you grew 120 plants of iceberg lettuce and each head cost 2bucks at the store ... then 500 plants or 5 grow sessions of lettuce would pay for the complete setup ... every plant after that is FREE except for the time to tend them ...
@@0623kaboom men, a 4 towers hidroponic sistem, can be as expensive as 500 bucks... and with a high of 1.80 mts tall, you can easily put about 12 to 24 plant set EACH, and the only real expensive thing would be liquid nutrients.
But about the other things you put... are basically unviable, at least the worm bed
Plenty plans to build a giant vertical farm near every major city
czcams.com/video/v6vp3iaGFTU/video.html
When you hire your journalists from instagram yoga pages lol.
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Lol
😀😀😀 my thoughts
True
so annoying and seems to not care about the topic at all. clearly not listening
My mind is BLOWN!!! This is AWESOME
Brilliant innovation.Congratulations.Hope you will give others an insight into your work and we can try to follow your method, though we do not have dearth for water.
This is like when you leave it to the last moment to write your essay
I love him. He teach me a lot. I was trying to use coconut husk for my plant and he just did it. Thanks a lot.
I just watched David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet & we all need to learn how to do this. Thank you very inspiring 🙏 🥰💖
That basil looks amazing!! The leaves are huge
I'm just glad he didn't start waving shiny keys in her face.
i dont get it?
@Loop Person She looks like a total stoner.
What the hell, "there's no dirt flavor". She doesn't wash her vegetables.
gotta get that B12😤😤😤
Christopher Smith she has no idea what she’s talking about 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's why it's organic lol.
this video is publicity for fools marketing only :), I know the flavour from my grandmother garden and the flavor of this kind of products. There are man laboratory studies to put us in guard. Open your eyes people.
@@marianciprian6000 wow
This is fantastic news. Awesome and amazing.
I am thinking of doing this myself. Love the video
was doing this years ago , stacking on long fences with capillary action water on the vertical , growing in ponds no watering no slugs etc and no plastics used
I'm all of a sudden excited about living my life, and it's in middle of quarantine. So I guess this must be fun!
Thanks for sharing this
Why does she talk like a toddler?
“Ya it’s weird cuz like that’s not a lot of soil, cuz like normally it’s like miles and miles of soil, ya”
I can't stand her way of talking she sounds like she's 15, vocal fry ugh!
A great example of the great american education system.
she's enough to turn you off of the human race
@Rebecca Conn ya ok
@Rebecca Conn whats a widdle?
Innovative way to farm in a limited land environment. Nice! 👨🏻🌾👨🏻🌾
It's idiotic. We should just re-invest in railroads to make transporting from vastly more efficient terrestrial farms cheaper and more sustainable.
"spent a whole check at whole foods"
felt that one
This isn't new. My dad was growing tomatoes in his greenhouse hydroponically in the 70's.
this is aeroponics though...it's slightly different.
And in coconut shells without any dirt? Doubt it.
@@Vixinaful no just different product back then. So...
Hell the Aztecs were doing this
@Cosmonauteable just going by what the guy in the video said. I don't know anything about farming or truly care haha
This girl had no idea what she was stepping into.... it would’ve been nice if you would’ve done a bit of research before hand 🤦♂️
why ?
To know what questions to ask
Please make her voice go away.
Or they could have sent someone who had experience with farming or even gardening.
She sounds ignorant
Saw your comment so i visit back. I find this awe-inspiring You've just gave me an idea for my next content. Stay Safe new friend!
So many plants cannot grow this way but, I love the vertical concept.
I really like the idea of indoor and vertical farming. I think it would be useful for Canadian farms. We have a pretty short growing season so we wouldn’t have to rely on foreign markets so much. Thinks like vegetables, fruit, and berries are expensive the farther north you go and it’s not unusual to see mould in berries by the time they get up to where I live. It’s September 10th and we’re getting frost warnings at night but the afternoons are unbearably hot. So it would be nice if farms around where I live used indoor farming over the winter to plant crops we normally have to import. It would cut down drastically on the amount of nonrenewable resources used to get us just a few strawberries. There are places in the territories you only get in by flying, places that pay $5 for a head of lettuce, they really need access to this sort of thing. I know at least one community created a year round green house but I wish it was more common. Places with droughts, short growing seasons, or a lot of people to feed but not a lot of land could really use this kind of system. I hope governments pay closer attention to these sort of solutions and alternatives and see if that’s something they can encourage or work with bring to their own communities
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girl: now i know what my bouquet is gonna be for my wedding~~
me: ughh
Lol i felt that ughh 😂😂😂😂
Some people are so awkward lol
And…when we look at the modern state of this effort, we find these businesses failing in droves. But this was a wonderfully breathless piece!
Imagine a ten story facility dedicated to that type of farming
Presumably located on the tenth floor?
This feels a little like an ad and that makes me skeptical of everything
It’s not just the reporter didn’t report and was more just interested in the subject aka horrible reporter 😂
B_ SIDE I fuck wit wu tang as well but I don’t think it’s an ad 😂
It makes you skeptical because the reporter failed at being skeptical due to not knowing a damn thing about the subject matter. So she did the only thing she could resort to, and make it look like some sort of ad. Easy.
it was an ad. Literally everything on all mainstream media is advertising and/or propaganda.
You're right, there's a bit too much of "oh gosh, that's crazy" to it. But it's not as if it was difficult to do my own research - ecosia, wikipedia, or: try it out for yourself.
Without weeds and insects, I wonder how these plants deal with fungal pests. And: since there's no dirt at all, the nutrient solution would have to contain dozens of different minerals.
"that dirt flavor" is probably the bacteria we are missing in our modern gut
Or minerals that we actually need from soil.
This is a great effort for modern farming but you’re right. The soil gives us our microbiome which is extremely important. The host is misinformed and only has part of the story.
Can’t do it better than nature
AngelaMerici12 the minerals are supplied by the nutrient solution
Our microbiome is first inherited from our mother as we pass through the birth canal into the world. We have a culture as soon as we are born.
Probiotics can come from fermented foods regardless of where they are grown.
Prebiotics come mostly from vegetables, legumes etc.
Nice one, Subscribed. Please keep'em comin...
This is goals 🙌🏾
“Let thy food be thy medicine.” - Hippocrates
How this plastic food can be medicine?
@@mp3hipnozy Plants grow from air.
Plastic impacts the plant less than a metal pipe would.
The plastic in those tubes has a much lower degradation rate than agricultural grade plastics. Make no mistake though, as this becomes more popular you're going to see a "merchants of doubt" style backlash from the agrochemical industry.
This is great , no pesticides and soils that's now days has become garbage. Totally awesome work in the tower of power plants 👍🏻
@@MartinMenge You can easily consume plastic bags.
"this whole thing was 26 days?"
"Yes"
"Myyyylanta!"
This is amazing, particularly for city dwellers like myself.
vertikal farming with natural lighting is what makes this place perfect
Ok, now for the burning question: Where are the nutrients coming from, to make the nutrient dense solution (both macro and micro)?
Soylent green.
The fertilizer
From the solution in the water.
Probably water soluble synthetic fertilizer
Probably have fish tanks in the back and they recycle the water.
i working on my module on vertical farming this video has lot of information what i needed thanks for the informative video!!
I have nieces, that are pretty as the mountains and the trees... Never underestimate the reuse of pallets; a vertical Garden in a very small place !!!
Thank you for making this video!
"He went through school in a very modern and medical way...."
@washington gibz
Exploratory surgery for exams
@washington gibz thank you for your contributions Bill Cosby
The video starts with him saying he's a pharmacist and 10 seconds *edit: went back and re watched. It's actually 6 seconds* later the "journalist" repeats it.
@@SilentSalad I guess she went to school in a very modern and journalistic way
It's always funny when the dumbing something down for a general audience, happens by someone not smart enough. So funny it's sad. I'm laughing my tears off.
I'm shocked she didn't say " like oh my god there's like almost no water".
Jorge Jimenez 😂😂😂
Bruh, this cookie cutter chic is played out already, huh.. like OMG Becky, like seriously, there's frickin no water? Like OMG, it's like magic, it's like... Do they make any other kind of chic, 🤣🤣🤣
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@@haizi7179 czcams.com/video/Z0z1G6sgtQ4/video.html
this is an extortionary faciality. Nice job, for a report from a social media perspective, you did well. Bringing this to another demographic is important in a style that us relatable. Maybe this will help bring this fresh growing to the cities and the apartment residents that desire veg all year round that they can grow.
I'm obsessed with my TG!
"Completely fresh" * looks at B roll of literal plants growing * No friggin way!? Wow very insightful.
I did not see any fruits or vegetables only plants with leafs.
Most Fruiting plants are too large for the design intent on those towers. There don't appear to be any points to tie up or support heavy fruits and the planting nodes are too close together. Larger plants would over compete with one another and cause an efficiency loss.
I work for another hydroponic business that is growing and beginning to prototype vertical gardens. You are helping me think :)
@@brittocallaghan alright.
Those leaves are vegetables.
Some fruit plants come from trees, which require quite a lot more of work, nutrients, and some are weak to environment (which is why fruit exportation is expensive). The leafy greens are vegetables tho, and their requirements are idoneous for this system to work.
@@janek49 i know but only lettuce or plants like stevia or mint.
Finally, someone has solved the problem of farming being too affordable.
Actually, this kind of farming could become cheaper since it uses less space, doesn't have to deal with bugs, uses less water, fertilizer and no pesticide
@@mathieurenaud8864 except it uses massive amounts of electricity and labor
@@jessevanhorn3726 This farming is more labor intensive if not automated (wich is very costly), but the electricity is not that big a problem if you have solar pannels or you live somewhere with good hydroelectricity. The solar pannel technology is becoming cheaper and more efficient. Getting crops year round is not something to overlook
@sprock vertical farms use grow lights because they're stacked too tightly to use sunlight like a greenhouse. Also they need a lot of electricity for the climate control, irrigation, and harvesting equipment. Harvesting in vertical farms either requires a lot more human labor (because it's awkward and different from traditional farming) or is heavily automated, which requires a lot of electricity.
LOL! If you mean tractors and large acres, that's expensive as shit ! Heck how much you paying for land alone? Not cheap ...nope! Plus all that pesticide. Yuck!
This right here's cheap as fuck! And you have GOOD food, not that shit that you normally consider food ...
This is suited to the small space garden or farming, it should be practicing by other farmer in order for them to produce a lot of vegetables. This is one of the best practice road in the sustainable ways🤗🤗
She clearly doesnt understand what is goind on
"it tastes better because you're not getting that dirt flavour" Well, I'm done boys.
He is insane.
Lmao
This is incredible honestly
I love this. Thank you.
This is absolutely epic! Great video, looking forward to using hydroponics for my market garden business
“And just using the law of physics”
Girl: ya
“What goes up, comes down right?”
Girl: ya...
The farming method is captivating, full of interesting lessons to be learned...The narration maybe a little bit not jiving with the actual video footage interview but somehow...well, the plants are good...
I can't wait to get my own little tower🌱
How is your farm tower working out?
Every house needs a greenhouse like this one. It brings Local Shopping to a whole new level!
I'm not sure every house, has the space or money to do this
@@bryan0x05 Notice, that I did not say 'should have'. I said 'needs'.
Love how this guy make you think you can't grow anything without his product. He knows there's a range from skeptics to sheep.
What are you talking about?
He literally showed everything you need to remake what he did.
It's so easy
Wow this is pretty amazing.
I do not understand why any one would give this a thumbs down. What's not to like?
Tower Garden aeroponic technology is considered to be the best vertical farming solution when it comes to water-savings, space-savings, energy efficiency, crop-yields, and nutrient density of the crops. A scientific comparative study conducted by the University of Mississippi tested and compared over 160 different crops grown on Tower Garden aeroponic systems versus the best equivalent soil-based farming produce. The results are staggering to say the least. The crop yield is 35% to 50% superior to soil-based farming. In all cases, Tower Garden aeroponic systems have an average ranging from 30% to 65% nutrient density increase. The means you are getting a superior crop quality and quantity. Visit the Beyond Organic section of www.agrotonomy.com to read the entire scientific comparative study.
Aside from using up to 95% less water than other conventional growing methods, Tower Garden aeroponic systems are ideal in terms of space-savings since you can grow up 52 plants per square meter and up to 250,000 full-size plants per acre.
Agrotonomy Thank you for this detailed explanation. This scientific comparative study was exactly what I was looking for! Your website is highly informational!
Impressive scientific comparative study
The proof is in the pudding!
Very interesting ! I want to set up my greenhouse using tower garden!
Wow, that’s amazing, How do the plants have more nutrient density ? Is that because of the nutrient solution that is used ?
That girl be like, "OMG you can literally grow plants without soil, like literally"
🤣🤣🤣
I had a small hydroponic grower I tried. It worked excellent, and it grew way faster than the other things I had growing for about a year. The issue for me was it also grew mold 😖 which was beyond depressing, but I love this concept so much.
Because the water & nutrients are continually circulating, mold is not an issue.
@@TrueGarden What you have going on here is what I aspire to have. You’re an inspiration, and this is truly beautiful.
@@skyeangel07 💗
I need to change my diet so this is really great for me. I'd like to get the list of materials u used and instructions to make this
I SO wanna do this. In a tiny apartment, would LOVE to be able to go out and pick something fresh for meals on a regular basis
I have an Aerogarden at home that works quite well, but can get pricey ☹ Google vertical hydroponic systems. Found one on Alibaba for $161-170. The hard part is the nutrients.
Do It!
Then share with your friends family and apartment mates!
Spread the Love! 💚
I could see these on a balcony for sure!
I wish we had a balcony... We have a doorstep, and the blessing of a corner outside that normally would have had a bush but ours didn't for some reason. We've got stuff in there already for gardening, thanks to my Mom sending us raised garden beds. One is my hubby's, one is mine, (to choose what to grow in it. Both were actually for him. Oops 😅)
So I wouldn't have anywhere to put anything else right now. And the nutrients would be a problem... 😟 as much as I'd love to share, our neighbors aren't particularly friendly 😑 so what room we have is already taken, and I kinda want to get my family sustainable before trying to spread it out 🤷♀️
This is such an amazing idea , probably the best way to grow our vegetables
It isn't. Use your head to figure out why.
I was wondering how Troy sourced the nutrients for the plants. Some farms also have fish farming alongside and the nutrients are from fish excreta in waters before they are renewed.