With the opening of a new grow room, Living Greens Farm, a vertical, indoor aeroponic farm that provides year-round fresh salads, microgreens and herbs, is set to become one of the largest vertical plane aeroponic farms in the world, on February 22, 2019. This brings their farming operation to 60,000 square feet.
While aeroponics has been around for decades, Living Greens Farm claims to have discovered a way to transition and improve this technology for commercial production. Aeroponics is the practice of suspending a plant’s roots in the air and spraying them with a nutrient-rich solution, instead of burying them in soil. According to the company, Living Greens Farms’ patented vertical plane design allows one acre to produce the equivalent of hundreds of conventional acres.
"A high-tech computer system manages the plants growing conditions for variables such as light, temperature, humidity and CO2 to grow year-round produce. Overall, Living Greens Farms’ system uses 200 times less land and 95 percent less water than traditional growing methods", the team with the company explains. Further, they point out that "While other vertical aeroponic farms are larger in square footage, Living Greens Farms’ vertical plane design is the first of its kind and is more efficient than other aeroponic growing methods which decreases labor by up to 60 percent".
“Thanks to our patented growing technology, within one year our new farm will save 24 million gallons of water and several hundred thousand miles of shipping – saving over 35,000 gallons of diesel and nearly a million pounds of CO2 emissions," says Dana Anderson, Chairman and CEO of Living Greens Farm.
Living Greens Farm states that its new grow room will allow an expansion of their consumer product line into new states including Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota by February 2019.
For more information:
Living Greens Farm
1512 30th Street NW
952-226-2644
livinggreensfarm.com