Grow Food Anywhere Without Soil and 95% Less Water | PARAGRAPHIC
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- The science of aeroponics opens the door for people everywhere to take control of their food supply and grow their own fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs at home.
Vertical farming with Tower Gardens has been around for years but many people still tend to think of farming as needing organic soil and acres and acres of land. If you rethink farming, you can actually grow a variety of plants without any soil and 95% less water.
Going vertical also requires 90% less space, so you only need a tenth of what you would traditionally need. That means growing your favorite fruits, vegetables, and herbs outdoors as well as indoors with efficient LED grow lamps. This tower to table mindset will shift the way you view farming, gardening, and how you buy produce.
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Look beyond the impression.
This is an amazing facility. Solving some of the world problems with food production to support a local community. I hope this becomes more common around the world.
Yes! It's amazing to think of how many more places around the world are able to grow their own fresh produce with this methodology. Whether they are large commercial farms or people growing in their own homes.
77 gal plastic barrel - $50
Fountain pump (800GPH) - $40
Miscellaneous components/tools -$50
Borrow a drill -free
Seeds - $1
Total= $141 ish
1 Tower Garden= $700
Setup. Repairs. Etc.
5 hours vs 5 minutes.
Grandma isnt going to buy a silicone gun for fixing leaks
I have two tower gardens and it incredible to eat from
I have two gardens and they are incredible to eat from. No plast or lights or water pump like this is the only down side of a garden. how is your corn, beans, rice, carrot, yam and potato crop because my is fantastic ;)
We had a tower garden assembly given to us a few years ago. We had no idea what to do with it. A month ago, we decided to give it a try, so my husband cleaned out the leftover roots that had been in it since we got it. We went to True Garden in Mesa, and learned a few things, and picked up a timer and the nutrients and tother things we had been told we needed. We started the water and nutrients, and set up the timer. After 3 days, we picked up the seedlings. Wow...planting in a tower is so easy! Yesterday afternoon, we went out to harvest a few things, and honestly, some things we weren't sure of...what IS this? So we snipped of some of everything except the obvious tomatoes or cucumbers, and made a huge salad! We'd never had micro greens before...All I can say is that in less than a month, we are having the best salad we've ever had...and didn't even have tomatoes yet! We looked at each other, and said...this tastes...not just good, but full, whole and, well, healthy! We loved every bite! Now we are getting excited! This is so rewarding to actually have edible produce, that is healthy so very fast! I wish I had more tower gardens!
Louise, Mesa, AZ
This place is so cool. Love seeing all those leafy greens growing so easily!
I remember go to epcot center and going to the land attraction it was one of my favorite attractions so inspiring thank you for keeping the idea alive. :)
The developer of Tower Garden is Tim Blank. He has a horticulture degree from Valencia College and career as Chief Horticulturist for the Land Hydroponic Greenhouses at Walt Disney World Company.
that guy calmly explaining the problems of todays agriculture was so nice to listen to
I have two and am getting a third. I still grow in the dirt, but enjoy tower gardening all year around.
Would you recommend it to someone new to growing?
@@sentry404. its pricey. You could make your own
I took home some parsley for my mom to make Tabouleh and honestly it was the most flavorful parsley I’ve ever had. Cant wait for this to be the standard of agriculture.
The flavor is unbelievable!
@anzarazz maybe i have.
Thanks for your videos paragraphic, they are very inspirational. I am going to try this tower method with some giant bamboo instead of the white plastic.
A disadvantage to bamboo is that it doesn't handle water well.
But I too hope that there is a better solution than the white plastic.
But maybe we can make them using recycled material?
I am interested in knowing how not having the microbiome of the soil affects the nutrition the plant has to offer you? As well as where the minerals you are using to feed the plants come from, and if they are damaging the communities and environment they are getting them from?!
I am truly interested in knowing, I support the technology and want to love it but also want to know the true impacts.
Google it it literally took me seconds to find
Most commercial fertilizer is waste products of other industries
@@sweetness6048 good for you, I am sure a lot of people hadn't realized this so thanks for point it out. But sometimes when people interact in the comments, others can learn something NEW, because in order to search for information in Google you have to know the exact keywords and the specific info you are searching for. I have found a lot of info in comments over the years that I didn't find in a Google search, or I wasn't aware of. Also I have provided others with information as well.
Me too
Whenever they said "plants don't need soil, they need what is in the soil"; I knew this wasn't anything more than the same incomplete-disney-world idea I had as a kid...
SMH... ...if there weren't soil here on the planet plants never would've come along. Plants do need the nutrients found in soil; plants also need the living interaction in their ecosystems. These folks have designed the Matrix for veg 🙄🙄🙄💔
Great Video! Like your style. I love my tower. I got it from Troy and have been absolutely obsessed!
Thank you!
Man"s returning to the forest....where its always been freely available! About time....
You guys are doing wonderful work.Pl keep it up.
I just hope that this will become a bigger trend and hydroponic structures will become more commercially available/cheaper
Lol im learning more from this channel than from school
This is not Aeroponics - This Is NFT aka Vertical Hydroponics - Vertical farming is the smart farming future so well done on the tower design .......
Watching you from Zimbabwe
The ideas is excellent accept when you consider the biodiversity of the earth 🌏
Which includes the symbiotic relationships of microbiology, carbon sequestration, building habitats for the natural world to flourish.
Plus you have to pay for electricity unless solar powered running pumps not to mention the nutrition you need to feed to the plants !
Its amazing because you cannot patent nature 🌈❤️🙏🏼
" building habitats for the natural world to flourish. ". The nutrition is just egg shells and banana peels and i don't think the point is to copy nature but to conserve it. I have a friend that does vertical farming and his business is flourishing just like the plants.
I think this method is better for commercial farmers. Not for average people.
We love it so much !
I learned how to germate seeds in my 5th grade bioligy class and always said using just water and minerals using a method similar to this was the way to grow food or at least foods that just have roots. we used to have a tomato garden when I was young and nothing taste better then fresh pestiside free tomatoes!!if everyone in the county did this we would have MORE THEN ENOUGH to feed our country!!!
Greeting from Greek Cyprus :) amazing discovery ! :) thanks
5:28 Yes the water evapourates... then it comes back down to earth again as rain.
"Why isn't everyone doing this."
Um, because it's almost $1000. Then need to purchase the plant food and this and that.
Agreed. Absurd starting point.
Basic hydroponics are way cheaper. These videos are produced really well, but they're definitely more advertisements than they are informative.
It's expensive but you only pay it once. Then you only need to fertilize. It may be expensive to buy it as a normal person, but as a company it saves a lot of space/work and it's worth it
Ok, nice points but the underline is ultimately selling tower(s),mineral solution(s) to feed the plants/vegetation, and seedlings… NON-GMO?
Actually not that expensive. That is a turnkey product. I built a tower garden myself and spent less than $200 to start. Did I have hiccups? Yep, but it is doable on a budget.
I love this. My wife and I just bought our own Gardyn to grow 30 plants. My only question is, how is the plant food culminated. Where does it come from? How is it done? What's the environmental impact to get that food?
The developer of Tower Garden is Tim Blank. He has a horticulture degree from Valencia College and career as Chief Horticulturist for the Land Hydroponic Greenhouses at Walt Disney World Company. Tim invented a first of its kind, one-size-fits-all hydroponic mineral blend that allows for a wide range of fruits and vegetables to successfully grow in Tower Garden. Tower Garden® Mineral Blend is a proprietary blend of inorganic earth and sea minerals. The environmental impact of growing your own food is huge! Carbon footprint is minimal. Plus, knowing where your food comes from & being able to grow pesticide free...can't get any better than that!
Prices are insane. No. I'll build my own.
was just about to come and comment that lol
Yall Krazy! These are not expensive, at least not for me, I have a beautiful home dont want any diy burnt hole in my space! I have 4 of them and they look stunning!
@@hicksa1 you can actually make some pretty good DIY versions. if you have a 3d printer you can print the tower sections or even go to your local plumbing store, all you need then is a pump and a resiviour. this isnt a new thing, but the guy has made it into a great commercial product, I think their main issue is the size of the thing, I bet most of the cost is in the delivery.
Read up on the use of pvc plastic for this. It is frowned upon highly. I don’t want to talk ugly. Just go on UA-cam and online and look at this. You are supposed to use clay or ceramic type towers. The p v c is not healthy for people at all. The plastic breaks down in the sun and weather and with constant use.
Holla at me if you wanna sell one
Sold. Gonna get one to try out but may switch to this system if that trial works! Good vid!
Very amazing. For sure it is healthy. Really space saving!
Absolutely amazing! True Garden is the epitome of exemplary vertical farming! 🌱💚The Tower Garden is so versatile! Great video!
It’s remarkable to see so much growing in a place that would otherwise just be urban desert. Arizona is not known as “ideal” growing conditions but it proves how valuable these methods are in a world of regions where traditional agriculture is impractical or even impossible.
Nobody going to talk about the energy cost for the lights if you happen to not live in a desert?
You can sell the plants if you want money but you can get very very eco friendly lamps that can be poerred by 1 or 2 solar panels or a car battery for over a week without recharging and all in all its very worth it :)
Awesomeness 👍❤🌱
Epcot!!! I remember doing a tour and learning about their farming technique to grow the food for their restaurants. Thought it was so cool.
Brilliant idea just need to remortgage my house to get one
If you look up 'DIY Hydroponics' you can get some great home solutions that are much cheaper :)
I love that the guy is just walking around picking things and eating them. Its like Willy Wonka but with greens lol
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se está poniendo fino filipino, a cada torre le pega un bocao
Thank Monsanto and a divided society
Gonna order one myself.
Just AMAZING!!
This place is awesome! I have been there a couple of times. I need to buy one of their towers already.
Anytime you are ready! h-g7.towergarden.com/shop
A REAL DOCTOR
those basic plastic pillars are crazy expensive
Tower Garden does offer 12 monthly installments and growing your own produce it doesn't take long to pay for itself.
We're not running out of places to grow food. If we stopped growing corn, wheat, and soy as animal feed then that would free up 99% of the land to grow food for ourselves.
Cringe
Do you understand that the percentage that you put there is not really accurate.
i lowkey want to set a few of these up in my apartment XD
You can make them with pvc pipes and some plastic bins and some pumps just look up some solutions like 'DIY Hydroponics' and you can make some rlly easy at home without a kit
Take a look at cattle farming that's where the water flows
It’s a very nice idea. I would like to have one in my kitchen/living room and one will fit nicely on my balcony but at 1000$ per unit, it’s over my budget.
You should be able to replicate this yourself. There's nothing ground breaking here. Search for DIY hydroponics or DIY vertical farming perhaps.
Fantastic video!!
Thank you! Many more to come
I'm trying to decide whether I have been watching a rabbit in a manskin or a man who has a rabbit as his spirit animal.
Sounds good but the biggest problem is the initial cost and the problem of power usage. Solar power in a desert would probably be best, but if you want a battery then that will increase the initial cost even more. All this initial cost is only worth it if you will make enough money out of this.
tldr: too high initial cost, takes too long to earn enough money to pay for itself
this channel is too underrated
I'm gonna try this on a smaller scale. Maybe 6' tall just to make harvesting easier.
I want one!
Towers can be purchased at rxformulations.towergarden.com
Email us when you have made your purchase and we will send you a coupon so you can fill your tower for the first time with seedlings from us for FREE!
the crops that need water aren't those.
it's soy, corn, potatoes and beats. Those are the ones creating the irrigation problems.
Is beneficial micro climate fungi not necessary for nutrition value of plants? How does pollination happen in this type of growing environment? If more people use this method, it will use quite a bit less water which is good for humanity as a whole. Another question is what affect will it have on the environment and beneficial ecosystems if more people grow with this method? I am seeking out a less environment taxing way to garden and just have questions.
Reminds me of a Plant Data Center
WHERE ARE THEY???? Put the link here!!!!
Wow Nice !
Thanks!
How can I get in touch with true gardens for questions about commercial projects in the caribbean
where is your website ? I like your set up
Smart people!!!
Plants get minerals from the soil. We need these minerals. The plants can't get the minerals unless you add them to the water. The trick to nutritional plants is the water content.
....fucking sold. Amazing product, plain and simple.
Nice
thank you for showing us this 🤙🤙
Brass tacks, it's plastic, metal, and a pond pump that they'll sell for thousands per unit. This is not for the people that need it. Healthy produce is priced out of reach for most of America, which is why Walmart is the monster of a brand it is and not Whole Foods.
I don't know if you go back answer new question to old episodes, but I am hopeful you might. My question is are you worried about the plastic breaking down and getting into the food?
These systems were designed with that in mind. We are deeply concerned about the long term effects our environment and products have on our bodies. The plastic used doesn't leach and we maintain and monitor it for wear.
The Tower are made from high-quality, USDA-approved, UV-stabilized, food-grade plastic. I have had mine 10 years with no issues.
Very interesting.
I want to know what's in these nutrients.
Crush egg shell grass and banana skins 👌
rxformulations.towergarden.com/shop/mineral-blend
Ingredients
• Mineral Blend A
• Total Nitrogen (N) - 2.0%
• Calcium (Ca) - 1.0%
• Chelated Iron (Fe) - 0.05%
• Derived from: Calcium Nitrate, Iron Sodium EDTA
• Mineral Blend B
• Available Phosphate (P2O5) - 1.0%
• Soluble Potash (K2O) - 3.0%
• Magnesium (Mg) - 0.5%
• Sulfur (S) - 3.0%
• Boron (B) - 0.01%
• Copper (Cu) - 0.001%
• Manganese (Mn) - 0.01%
• Molybdenum (Mo) - 0.0005%
• Zinc (Zn) - 0.005%
• Derived from: Potassium Nitrate, Potassium Sulfate, Magnesium Sulfate, Boric Acid, Copper Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Sodium Molybdate, Zinc Sulfate, Phosphoric Acid
@@TrueGarden Thank u
Very interested in the topic. Very turned off by the Try-Hard editing.
Great video!
were the towers already tested with a fish culture in the bottom water tank, which then would provide the nutrients to the plants?
How about putting towers over a pool of fish waste water?
Aquaponics is another great method of sustainable growing. Each form of urban farming has a place and environment that works best for it. We found this to be the most practical and sustainable system for our environment. But we have worked with some great people in various forms of modern urban farming and support them all.
So you save on water and spend way more on infrastructure and maintenance. Plant native plants in soil.
How about cost?
Can you grow garlic??
Can you plant year round?
Outdoors depending on your temperatures but in a greenhouse, year round growing is possible.
The only issue left - sun. Give me enough sunlight in northern regions - ill grow you sweetest berry in any can.
Hydroponic veggies are devoid of nutrients. Most of the plants derive their nutrition from their root system developing in nutrient dense soil. Today’s problems with growing veggies in soil is the soil layer used for farming is no longer nutrient dense. So, you chew on that broccoli or kale, but it gives you close to no calcium or vitamins. Nice marketing with hydroponics, but ultimately, I want my veggies grown the better way.
Where can I buy one of these tall towers? And how much does it cost?
Is there a commercial version for this
We are not loosing ground to grow good food. Our government is paying our farmers to not grow food.
smart guys
There s alot of place to grow food.
Can I grow potatoes, cauliflower, cabbages, beetroot and carrots with this method.
At $80US per month for 12 months the return needs to be significant.
If we are all going to live on salad greens and herbs, this is great. But without the ability to grow root vegetables and legumes, we aren't leaving the ground.
Scott, you are absolutely right. This isn't a replacement for all farming, but it is a viable solution for urban areas, deserts, and any place where traditional growing methods aren't realistic. It also reduces the travel of many types of produce over long distances.
I’m using the Aero Garden and the Tower Garden, but I feel that the nutrients provided to put into the water is not sufficient. Help?
rxformulations.towergarden.com/shop/mineral-blend
Ingredients
• Mineral Blend A
• Total Nitrogen (N) - 2.0%
• Calcium (Ca) - 1.0%
• Chelated Iron (Fe) - 0.05%
• Derived from: Calcium Nitrate, Iron Sodium EDTA
• Mineral Blend B
• Available Phosphate (P2O5) - 1.0%
• Soluble Potash (K2O) - 3.0%
• Magnesium (Mg) - 0.5%
• Sulfur (S) - 3.0%
• Boron (B) - 0.01%
• Copper (Cu) - 0.001%
• Manganese (Mn) - 0.01%
• Molybdenum (Mo) - 0.0005%
• Zinc (Zn) - 0.005%
• Derived from: Potassium Nitrate, Potassium Sulfate, Magnesium Sulfate, Boric Acid, Copper Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Sodium Molybdate, Zinc Sulfate, Phosphoric Acid
Plants love fertile soil
I've been wanting to do this for years. I would love to grow for my family & my community. How to find funding to help get started? 🤔
I do know there are grant monies out there. Trying to search your city, county & state for grants using cue words such as USDA and sustainability.
Get a job and save the money, at least that is how the rest of us do what we want ;)
lol try growing food in the winter without paying 100's in electricity bills
From New york
so what nutes are you using in this system? im guessing salt based
The seeds are 100% Organic, The coco-coir is 100% organic. The mineral based solution is considered natural (made up of natural earth & sea minerals) it cannot be certified because it is mineral.
rxformulations.towergarden.com/shop/mineral-blend
Ingredients
• Mineral Blend A
• Total Nitrogen (N) - 2.0%
• Calcium (Ca) - 1.0%
• Chelated Iron (Fe) - 0.05%
• Derived from: Calcium Nitrate, Iron Sodium EDTA
• Mineral Blend B
• Available Phosphate (P2O5) - 1.0%
• Soluble Potash (K2O) - 3.0%
• Magnesium (Mg) - 0.5%
• Sulfur (S) - 3.0%
• Boron (B) - 0.01%
• Copper (Cu) - 0.001%
• Manganese (Mn) - 0.01%
• Molybdenum (Mo) - 0.0005%
• Zinc (Zn) - 0.005%
• Derived from: Potassium Nitrate, Potassium Sulfate, Magnesium Sulfate, Boric Acid, Copper Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Sodium Molybdate, Zinc Sulfate, Phosphoric Acid
primary water
And nutrients we call Mineral Blend.
"Tower Garden® Mineral Blend is a proprietary blend of inorganic earth and sea minerals. Our company sources the highest quality minerals available. Since minerals are excavated from deep within the earth, they exist in a form and location that is uncontaminated by modern pollutants.
Our Mineral Blend is registered in every state that we sell Tower Garden® and is tested by those governing bodies to meet their registration guidelines. We do not provide vendor information to the public, as these are proprietary relationships. Our company is committed to sourcing the highest quality and most environmentally responsible and sustainable materials available for all of our products. We work with vendors and suppliers who have the same commitment. "
How do I buy a tower?
So its the same system like NFT?? but vertical?
Yes
What is cost like is it profitable?
Where does d water comes from
You place the water inside and it keeps moving from down to up to down. It's the same water going in circles.
This puts me in the mind of how Allah describes Jannah.
Plastic towers with water pumps and grow lights?
Anyone know what the song/instrumental is called in the first 50 seconds of this video
How do you maintain the towers? is it intensive? (cleaning/maintenance)
I would be concerned over fungus issues.
Humidity I guess must be controlled.
Bulk pricing for commercial designs?