Living Greens Farm expands grow room for vertical plane aeroponic farming
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.
Living Greens Farm, a Faribault, Minn.-based vertical, indoor aeroponic farm that provides fresh salads, microgreens and herbs year-round, is set to become what is said to be the largest vertical plane aeroponic farm in the world. That’s because Living Greens Farm is opening a third grow room, bringing its farming operation to 60,000 square feet.
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. 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. Overall, Living Greens Farms’ system uses 200 times less land and 95% less water than traditional growing methods.