Eat fresh vegetables every day? LED shows up in the container

What are containers used for?

While the cost of Baiyiqianyi large-scale food imports from different countries by sea transport in Hong Kong, the other side is placed on the top of a tall building for idle to provide local production of vegetables in winter.

76000 dollars from the sale, you can become a professional city farmer, which is a new business in 2010 by Jon Friedman and Brad McNamara in Boston - Freight Farms. The two one read a read of environmental science, industrial design, had opened a environmental engineering consulting firm, in a greenhouse roof construction project they suddenly burst out of a container of inspiration, so there will be a Freight Farms.

Each container is a vertical row of plants in the nutrient solution, the plant can reach up to 4500 high density planting environment. The control circuit by Goods are available in all varieties. containers in drip irrigation system, water pump, LED light source, temperature control system, even equipped with a 4G hot spot, lets the farmer through mobile phone app to monitor the growth condition, the soil acidity and a series of data.

Your farm is upstairs, your agriculture is on the clouds.

This is not to your elderly parents to promote balcony vegetables retirement, Freight Farm users are for the restaurant suppliers, middlemen for wholesale and the container owner contact, let the harvest ingredients reach those who emphasize the use of local raw materials of the restaurant. More customers including Tasty Burger hamburger chain and the Marriott Courtyard Hotel.

These vegetables can guarantee the container regardless of outside various difficulties and hardships of healthy growth, its stability has become a willing to choose their causes. In the war ravaged snow in Boston in winter, you can at least go upstairs to cut some fresh vegetables with salad bowl.

Because of its flexibility and the characteristics of the solution culture of rapid growth, the farmers can according to the rooftop restaurant needs for customized production of quantitative ingredients -- say about this past winter, mustard is quite popular, the container also increases the amount of mustard plant.

Currently Freight Farms has sold 25 containers, although the number is not much, but has aroused the interest of investors. By the end of last year they got the same capital from Boston (Spark Capital) close to $four million in investment.

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