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getting very into vertical farms & automated agtech🥬

Opollo Farms is the world’s 1st fully automated vertical farming system: they use robots + AI + hydroponics to rapidly grow plants in dense, indoor, modular cube like structures

In Arizona you can already find their leafy greens (brand Willo) in whole foods!

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More from them: https://www.onepointone.com/

im a professional agtech developer (software not hardware) and home enthusiast! let's party!

Full-stack digital product consultant @ BoundCorp.net

i consult for some major CA cannabis greenhouses on software providing yield optimization, labor management, growth cycle tracking, soil and tissue spectrometer testing! it's all enterprise grade, nothing really public facing, but i have learned a lot!

Ah this is awesome! The software side is very intriguing, if you have any recommended readings/reference projects would love to learn more!

decided to share my learnings on aeroponics towers so far

blog.borodutch.com/everything-ive-learned-about-aeroponics-so-far

you might like this article i saw on here yesterday about someone who has made their own mini vertical farm at home

/scribble inminiapp scribbling and nft minting

you might like this article i saw on here yesterday about someone who has made their own mini vertical farm at home
https://farcaster.xyz/farcasteradmin.eth/0x2febdfb9

Due to a changing climate even the massive outdoor lettuce industry there is in danger, you have main water sources like the Colorado river facing droughts. Indoor vertical farming is trying to address these threats through technology. I’m hopeful for a future where existing and new tech farming systems can work together

SolarPunk 🌞 Certified Permaculturist 🌿 growing /wildyield 🐝

___ % less Ca

___ % more nitrates

Perhaps @mooneymillions can chime in re how systems have improved over the years to avoid excessive nitrates and lower Ca levels that imo plagued early hydro production.

The less water use is * vs depends on where it’s produced.

Think for many places glass house is superior to indoor on big scale.  See https://www.littleleaffarms.com as an example of a potentially successful operation

Dumb AF IMO to buy indoor lettuce grown in a state known for its outdoor lettuce cultivation 😅 these need to be located in cities, not where nature does a good job of it on its own.

Giving 70 million years back to humanity, via Clayton Farms🥗(YC W19). I run lots of ultramarathons. Current #1 ranked Fantasy Top player in Tactics.

Yeah, your model seems super efficient. 🔥

Cheers! I wish them success, but it’s a heckuva time for ROI when growing for distribution and CPG, and not directly for people.

Don't ignore @mooneymillions who runs a successful bidness based on this concept.