Urban Barns Foods says it’s the future of agriculture. The company is growing food indoors, with an emphasis on efficiency and volume.
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In this video, Dr. Nate answers some fundamental questions about indoor growing.
Indoor farming is a new farming approach that utilizes volume in unconventional spaces. It’s powered by new technology and benefits both farmers and consumers.
*Benefits of indoor farming to farmers*
High density production
Economic production
Controlled production
Consistent production
Unique branding
*Benefits to consumers*
Food that reaches the fringes
Food with higher quality
Food from farmers you know
Will indoor ag replace field agriculture?
Only for certain crops, and not all at once. The total market share will be eroded, but field agriculture will never be completely replaced.
What is unique about an indoor farm?
Indoor farmers think about production space as a volume rather than square footage. This changes the form of growing equipment from single plane to multiple plane, and then to vertical plane for maximum volume use. This means that more and more, indoor farming will equate to vertical farming.
Why is the world using indoor farming?
Different places are starting indoor farming from different motivations, most of which depend on the markets and the resources that they have. For example:
Japan has unique resources in the form of government subsidies, underutilized semiconductor and microchip facilities.
US indoor farmers are powered mostly by markets with high demands and value for local produce.
China is motivated by food safety concerns and demand for safe produce.
In addition to all this, indoor farming is a wild west industry- a small space that’s expanding quickly, with tons of opportunities… especially for people wanting to get in on the ground level.
What can you do for the indoor farming industry?
Buy local
Start a farm
Help an indoor farmer
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Timestamps/What’s Covered:
00:18 What is indoor farming?
03:03 Goals for indoor farming
03:50 Benefitys of indoor farming
05:14 What role it plays in the industry
06:45 Current status of indoor farming
08:05 The future of indoor farming
09:08 Why does indoor farming matter?
13:35 Get involved
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cant wait whole foods is partnering up with urban barns they are already selling produce in the whole foods in Montreal
What's lurking in your lettuce?
Of course, Canada and other countries will show the U.S. the way! The U.S. is too tied up with Monsanto, GMO foods, and big corporation control over our food supply.
Are the nutritional contents on par with the plants produced by our current methods?
Stupid fkn monkeys – lettuce is NOT food. … Eh!
How is the nutrition compared to organically or "traditionally" grown?
This is the future, and not a moment too soon.
Brilliant and necessary- securing a livable future !
The only issue may be the genetic diversity if the plants… If they are all the same, they are at greater risk of disease wiping it all out
There is no such thing as GMO lettuce. This is just making people fear their food for no good reason. Poor irresponsibly produced video.
We need to split up the city into small groups…. grow for ourselves
And then the chef puts unsustainable, polluting, resource depleting chicken breast on the salad.
Amazing.
Do they have to be non-GMO? Why limit it's potential that way?
So what kind of waste does it produce and what are the power requirements? Also is it cheaper than current agricultural practices and can it be used to grow things like potatoes, apples, cannola or wheat? So far you have only shown it growing products for a salad.
Really appreciate all the info. Question.. Should I consider doing vertical farm out of a shipping container?
hi brother!
do you have your supply in india…..?
When setting up an urban commercial grow………how do you get around zoning laws in the city?
Is there an email address or contact number where you can be reached ?
Not as caffeinated in this one huh? ;)
2D supplemental lighting is well known. For the 3D pyramid (like) structure you show, what techniques to folks you to make sure the leaves are getting a consistent DLI?
If only we could get billions of dollars of subsidies into this sort of enterprise, rather than in arms or oil.
can you please mention website tool for planning indoor farming?
Could you explain how these multi layer shelves with plants work? More specifically the lighting, and the distance to the crop, does that distance get smaller if the plant grows or do the shelves move appart to maintain the distance so your crops will not burn? or are the lights dimmed?
You guys provide so much vital information. It's been a lot of help and hopefully by this time next year. I'll have a full commercial indoor farm
Please don't stop making videos!!!