Indoor vertical farming conserves 95% of water over traditional farming
FarmMotion is startup that plans to utilize new and innovative technology make vertical farming reality in local communities. Using robotic technology to conserve water, will provide year-round, homegrown produce.
Imagine plants draping high of shelves, vegetables flourishing under efficient LED lights powered by solar panels, fresh produce growing in compact, climate-controlled room – that vertical farm.
It sound unconventional, but it future of agriculture. Vertical farming conserves 95 percent of water and reduces land usage by 90 percent. It small footprint allow vertical farm to reside within local communities instead of distant farmlands, increasing access to fresh homegrown produce, and reducing transportation costs.
Indoor vertical farms are perfect for climates like Minnesota because the productive year round.
Agriculture Revolution
Modern agriculture is wasteful and inefficient. It pours water on fields, flushing topsoil and fertilizer into our lakes and rivers. We are straining environment, and vertical farms are the solution. By accurately providing water to the plant’s roots, and only consuming what is necessary, vertical farms eliminate the wastes.
Of most inefficient parts the food system is distance your meal travels from farm your plate. Imagine driving to farm your tomatoes are grown. An vertical farm highly compact nature allows it strategically located food is consumed and not in far off field. By being integral part of community, your tomatoes grown just down the street.
Vertical farms also address food deserts directly. Inherently scalable, the exist in almost any available space, from backyard to office in skyscraper.
Why do we need to change the way we farm?
Modern agriculture as changed more in last two generations that previous 1,200 years. At picking produce to vacuuming up hundreds of bushels of corn minute, in automation agriculture is sustains communities. Their next step is utilize vertical farms to grow exactly what your community, and FarmMotion wants to automates process, that truly tailor the growing experience to meet your exact produce requirements.
Indoor vertical farming wastes virtually no water. All the water consumed by virtual farm literally leaves the farm in the form of the produce itself. Traditional irrigation is nearly 20 times less water efficient.
An indoor vertical farm’s greatest asset is produce can harvested year round, and achieve faster time from sprout to maturation traditional farm, the growing season may only 6-7 months of year.
Because the farm is indoors, cold winters, droughts, and pests, are no longer issue, the plants is light.