In addition to being super cool, living green walls can bring a whole host of benefits (https://brightagrotech.com/farm-walls/).
In this video, Dr. Nate Storey of Bright Agrotech discusses the newest use of ZipGrow towers – a living, food producing green wall that’s easy and cost-effective to assemble, maintained and ultimately cover the unused vertical space around you whether in an office, home, fence or side of a building.
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have you considered painting the west wall black and adding a sheet of clear (plexiglass, glass, greenhouse plastic, etc.) material with a few inches gap between the two as solar heat collection? with the snow/ sun/ reflection rate it should work well! also I was wondering about the hydroponic greenhouse …the gravel is grayish? if you added a layer of white quartz landscaping fill it would refract even more light to the plants, and …(perhaps) the water collection troughs at the bottom of the towers…..if you added a 45 degree turn into the walk way and another 45 as to go between the towers in the middle/bottom of them you could add a horizontal column of plants (most likely a thin leaf/ shade loving plant (anise maybe) between all the towers, (so for say….every 10 towers you could have 9 extra horizontal columns… increasing productivity? I realize walking between would be a little difficult though.
I don't understand … the barley will die in winter ? you leave them on ? won't the nutrient solution freeze ? I mean 20 or 30 below 0 …. but then it won't be green anymore ;o)
How is this looking now? Did it work out as well as you had hoped? Did you harvest anything from it?
I seen no green wall
Where is this in the world?
Thanks, been checking them out.
Hey Ty, you can pick up some ZipGrow towers for a green wall at zipgrow(dot)com!
Where can a guy get some towers like that? I'm really interested in doing that kind of setup, though I never even thought of insulating from the wind. Pretty cool!
Us too! It's shaded for half the day, as it's on the West side of the building, but we still expect it to grow in pretty thick.
Can't wait to see how it grows in.
Yes, I ran barley towers a long time back just to see what kind of filtration I would get out of them- they grew extremely well, and I've been itching to do barley ever since. I did do a six row though last time, and this is a two row, but I don't think there will be any difference in growth. It prefers the cool season, but will grow well just about anywhere. If you're going to grow in a warmer climate, check out some of the heirloom var.s from the tropics avail. online
Have you actually grown it out for grain in the towers before? How long does that take and what kind of season is appropriate for it? (our hot/cool wet/dry seasons are kinda upside down/inside out for growing most grains other than perhaps rice but I would like to test ways to grow some fodder for our birds.)
Well, you guys can certainly claim the first Aquaponic Green wall meant to help insulate against windchill.
Heating greenhouses can be a massive undertaking- check out our video on our heating system.
I stand corrected. I guess we have the second aquaponic greenwall in the world. I'll let Chris know. . . he's going to be brokenhearted.