How A Company Fits Five Acres Of Farmland Into Shipping Containers
How A Company Fits Five Acres Of Farmland Into Shipping Containers
Sponsored by Hyatt // Local Roots is changing the farming game for the better by brining fresh produce to “food deserts.” This company builds farming pods out of shipping containers, creating an atmosphere that’s perfect for growing produce in a sustainable way.
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What if the location is off grid with no power and irrigation? I’m guessing a generator or solar power will provide power, but how about the irrigation? How much water does it consume daily, weekly? Thanks. I’m very interested. I have a 10 acre and plans to live off grid in a couple of years.
Great but this is chemical agriculture
Whats the name of this compeny?
Opposite of healthy food
It looks great but how much the lights,food and air conditioning cost?? What about cost of the trailer and modifying it? So, price of one head lettuce??
Why am I not seeing some numbers? What are the costs? Electricity bill seems a big part of all of this! What are other relevant factors, eg., growing where there’s limited sun will matter, growing food where there’s no/highly limited land (inner city), what else? I saw a bunch of healthy looking young folks and no numbers. I’m interested and I have $600K.
Chamthong ( Boil )
So how much does this cost to install in a 40 ft shipping container
How to make lettuce 5x more expensive than traditional methods grown in premium real estate.
Vertical farming as a concept sounds like people who have zero idea about farming trying to harvest investments. Energy consumption is sky high, not nearly as environmental friendly as they claim, and the crops they can grow are very limited.
I can see this bandwagon sinking in a few years.
Think about how many cannabis clones you could make
This would be fantastic to feed the poorest communities. Church yards and parking lots are empty 6 out7 days and could be used to grow food for the community, food banks and homeless. One 40 foot grow trailer located at every empty church yard all growing food – no one goes hungry, has to eat greens or veg that have more km’s than the average family car per week.
Cost per unit?
Are you saying you get 5 acres out of 1 40ft container? (Absolutely impossible) Or you have enough containers that would equal 5 acres.
Looks like it is only greens.
This is why its been theorized that a few dozen tall towers with levels of different vegetables, fruits, and livestock areas could serve cities directly in the future.
Palangshak ?
LESS TALK, and LETS see more action.TH
Here the truth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXXZ1GUmgcI
People have biologically self-cleaning well-balanced aquariums inside their houses in different shapes and sizes and that is the answer for a compact ancient chinampa/ancient waru-waaru/ancient South American elevated lands surrounded by interconnected canals as large as small rivers (IN MINIATURIZED VERSIONS/ancient Burma’s floating farms and islands (IN MINIATURIZED VERSIONS). Combining edible aquatic plants cultivation with fish culture and with bioremediation aquatic plant systems and Professor John Todd’s Living Machines systems you can create a self-contained, self-regulating, self-regenerating, self-maintaining, and self-recycling compact close-loop food chain cycle agricultural ecosystem biosphere system. The use of hybrid soil-hydroponics with rock dust powder and terra-preta carbon powder can dramatically increase crop yields by 2 to 5 times and accelerate crop growth maturation rates by 7 to 8 times and the terra-carbon powder will further increase yields by 8.8 times and maintain soil fertility of the soil component of the hybrid soil-hydroponic system by recyling all agricultural plant biomass wastes into the soil as mulch and/or humus or in the hydroponic rock dust water mixture and the key criticial element in making it all work is to use a particular vital component design of the WROCLOW HYDROPONIC SYSTEM which is the world’s first 20th century non-circulating hydroponic system. And all of this set up will be inside a well insulated greenhouse, artificial lighting provided by induction growth lights with an unlimited lifespan during a very long dark winter.
Use metrics!
In the name of incubator = how much are insulted ?
it’s just fucking Lettuce. Provide a video where you are producing actual food.
5 acres !!!! Yea right …. Why do most of these container farms lie about numbers
This is exciting. Good news will be to see the deployment ever more quickly of this type of system world wide for those most in need are not in the USA yet that is. And we will reap what good we give away, not what we keep for ourselves. That used to be known as the golden rule and it is truly the premier activity fueling comfort and happiness ! thanks so very much to all that help this endeavor !
Maybe one of the problems is importing massive amount of people into our ethnic homeland, while mass murdering unborn babies
The math don’t add up. How do you produce 5 acres worth in 40ft container? Be realistic. Instead you should sell % yield and not total yield.
First it was an acre, then two, now five in a box. Come on guys its been proven its more like half an acre in a 40 foot container, and this is with some of the most productive technology.
Sorry guys – looks good but aint really good inside. Those lettices and other greens need way more than water and chemicals. Soil is an essential ingredient to give truely healthy produce. Hydroponics does not supply it all
I see a lot of space above grocery stores.
Safer way to grow weed
Are you planning to bury these and farm underground? That’s about all it’s good for. Why not just have huge windows all along one wall and the roof? No grow light would be necessary.
1 Container can Filling a 🏡 🍛 is enough !
Sooooooo inspiring girl, you have no idea. Thank you
hi everyone ,if anyone else wants to discover aquaponic gardening system try Aqua Recovery Tactics (http://aqua.RecoveryTactics.com ) ? Ive heard some great things about it and my work buddy got amazing results with it.
Wouldn’t this produce be deficient in certain minerals farming this way?
Great Young Vision………Question: Can a Old Disabled Paratrooper like me ……get advice/Network to help me ,…bring one of these to S.E.Alaska
Michael
Can you ship me 4 of these containers to Trinidad
والله جيد
This here USA you have profound view of how humans with words have manipulated Blacks "colored" humans and continue to push aggressive agendas to navigate to one goal by any means of Exploitation!
Free Complimentary Salad Buffet with Dining？
that’s great keep it up
That lettuce looks fresh but is it nutritionally dense? To me it looked transparent like it doesn’t have enough chloroform within the leaf.
Looks frightening
You can literally just build greenhouses out there use the suns natural energy and do hydroponics on more than just leafy greens. This is dumb af.
how much vegetables in Rasa®™bowl of noodles？
that’s a bull shit
can i build it in germany we have lots Shipping Containers please send info and your price thanks okaieurope@t-online.de
No soil; no funghi or micro organisms, no earthworms. No sunshine; no nutrients. No chance, no way would I eat this stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-1tBWDHcQs How A Company Fits Five Acres Of Farmland Into Shipping Containers.
Local Roots is changing the farming game for the better by brining fresh produce to "food deserts." This company builds farming pods out of shipping containers, creating an atmosphere that’s perfect for growing produce in a sustainable way. BUT THEY FAILED TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT OF THE VULNERABILITY OF THE ENTIRE SYSTEM IN IT’S COMPLETE ENTIERTY!
They failed to take into account of using various forms of PASSIVE HYDROPONIC system and combining that with Professor John Todd’s "LIVING MACHINES PRINCIPLES" and permaculture system and using a hybrid soil-hydroponic miniaturized version of the chinampa system and Burma’s floating garden farm system combined in a synergistic and integrated way to be a self-contained and self-sustaining system using biological controls to maintain plant health plus rock dust and carbon powder treatment of soil into terra-preta. People eating crop plants planted on carbon powder treated terra-preta soil are not very sickly and rarely get sick or are never sick at all, the terra-preta soil with 16% to 25% soil is maintained by recycling all plant biomass back into it. http://www.css.cornell.edu/faculty/lehmann/research/terra%20preta/Flyer%20terra%20preta%20landuse%20strategy.pdf
this is never 5 acres