The ZipFarm™
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- Опубліковано 29 жов 2015
- The ZipFarm™ is defining how food is grown in cities and other harsh growing environments. Learn more: zipgrow.com/zipfarm/
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I really like the idea of small scale working as well!
Pretty neat
nicely done!
I love you Dr.Nate &Mr.Sean❤️👍🏽🤘🏽
I absolutely love this song
congratulations on your success! I subscribed to your channel about 3 years ago and am so impressed how you have evolved. Hats off friends!
Thanks for being such a long-time subscriber, +Mike4spirit. We love having passionate folks like in our community. You're the bomb!
Love this system and think that it will be perfect for my greenhouse. Going to have to keep watching your videos :)
We look forward to you being in our community, Chad!
Awesome idea . I love it . Next level thinking
Someday, this will replace traditional farming
I never knew I needed the added expenses of developed real estate, electricity and specialised hardware to profitably grow veges.
wooooow..... amazing creativity and really inspiring...simply loved it..thanks for the video
Hi there, congratulations, there is such an incredible evolution compared to the first videos uploaded !
I have a question : at 01:03, you connect two pipes with quick connectors. But where do you find such flexible pipes ? The polyethylene pipes I am using are much more rigid and it makes everything a bit more complicated.
Cheers from France,
what are the types of ventilation applianced you used in this video?
Hi! Can you tell me what lights are used for this set up?
Good to go, but what happen to the introduction webinar? Never got the link for it.
can this whole system be available.. at some scale.. at Walmart? (since it would be a pre-existing market base).
Ok I have to admit this is very impressive ... well done guys....
Thanks +GreenEvolutions!
This is perfect, I only wish this was all automatized with little to almost no human supervision. Than it would be the most brilliant thing ever!
Right now the nutrient dosing, lighting, environmental controls (e.g. humidity, co2, temperature, etc.) are all/can be all automated. Maybe someday the planting and harvesting will be too, but right now people still like interacting with the food they're producing for their local communities!
This is going to be big!
We think so too, +gadgetmantwincities!
This is a seriously good video. Well done for getting such a great system to market.
Daves Faves have you seen Art Garden Aeroponics?
Art Garden
Yes, you’re channel was one of the first to inspire me, but my interest moved from hydroponics to aquaponics, and from what I’ve read, aquaponics and aeroponics don’t mix well as the spray nozzles get blocked with fish poo.
Daves Faves We developed Aeroponics that’s does work with Aquaponics. We have hundreds of growers utilizing Aquaponics ;) Would you like to hear more? Contact us at: ArtGardenLLC@gmail.com
do we need to flush the spinach before harvesting while growing hydroponically in zip grow tower?
No :D
way cool!!!
The irrigation system looks nice. new product? cant find it on your website though.
Hey there - yes you can find it in the link in the description, or just visit: zipfarm.co/
Is it possible to get this in Europe?
I would love to grow my edible flowers with this system? It would be perfect for harvesting and would save me a lot of space..
Hey +MrVegetableGarden - Totally - we are growing some nasturtiums in our ZipFarms right now. They grow like crazy! Have you been in touch with our empowerment team yet?
Hello, I'm active duty in the Navy, and wondering how sustainable this would be for 1 person as a hobby.
Also, wondering the initial cost for setup on a small scale.
Considering a highly self sustaining shipping container farm with a small version of what you have in here.
Thanks!
Hi Dick, if you're looking into a containerized farm, we'd recommend going with something built from the ground up to grow food. Something like the Modular Farm is a great option for having space to perform farm operations and enough room to control your environment effectively while using the appropriate amount of light. modularfarms.co/
I wish I could work for your company.
i love this system i wish do this
Thanks for watching, Ali!
☺ welcome
I cried!
Hi! my respect and best wishes! What is the reason ZG trunks installed at the angle?
Hi Anar, this has to do with reducing potential leaks. A slight angle will help to keep the water flowing down the back of the tower and not out the front.
Hi! Thanks! It means crops below are bit closer to light than upper ones.
Cool Music!
+Dan Roy Thanks, Dan!
what the tittle of music, wanna download , thanks
please give me the tittle of music ,, very nice :D
How many heads of kale or lettuce can you plant at a time?
Hi Shola, great question! In our standard "full bundle" ZipFarm we can fit between 6000-8000 heads at a time. That's in a 1000 square foot room with 450 towers. If we're growing a denser variety we can squeeze a few more in, it all depends how you want to grow and what rotation you're looking at.
Another thing to keep in mind is that we never plant the entire farm at once; instead we stagger our plantings so that we can have consistent weekly harvests, and you do not end up with a mass of produce all at one time that cannot be processed/distributed.
Its look cool. But production wise i think you can get even better with some improvement. I had my own in Malaysia. Aeroponic but not dripping, wist instead. Every tower that I have can produce 60 crops at the same time with 8ft tower. I havest all my crop for every 25 days start from germinating. And its equipted with IoT system. Aeroponic ft aquaculture. Good luck man.
Besides leafy greens what about tomatoes
i work on a zipgrow company. trust me they cleaned before the camera started.. alot ;)
interesting - what is it really like?
can you provide me full info about this system please i want to know
I actually got misty-eyed seeing this clip...and I wasn't near any hydroponics
What about light distance? Doesn't it need to be closer to the plants?
Nope. Our lights are are typically about 28" from the face of the towers but much closer to the canopy as the plants grow out.
Since LEDs are much cooler, can't you pack them tighter to get more racks in a given space? Are they movable?
Is your greenhouses set up for year round production? And another question. When nate is shown in a greenhouse it is always a hoop house. Do you have much taller greenhouses?
Yes you can! That's the beauty of the water-cooled tech.
Hi Chris - yes the greenhouse shown in our videos was setup for year round production. We had a wood-burning stove to keep it going in the winter months. Yes, taller greenhouses with sidewalls are also a great option for vertical towers. Many of our farmers these days are using sidewall greenhouses for their own production. Totally depends on the budget of the farmer!
I really want to work with your team.
price?
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Very good technology however it seems 2/3 of the grow space is wasted.
Hello, after having seen your video, we are interested in contacting you to comment on a new project that we have patented, and that is related to this system of yours. Please, tell us an email to which we can write to you. Greetings, Sulema.
Hello! I want to do this in a 40 feet shipping container. How many towers do I need to get the most out of let's say 320 square feet of a total of 400 square feet? Can you please quote me for the towers to fit? The frame I can do it my self before insulating the container. My mail is Saeed@vtelematics.net.
Also, why do you need plugs? Can't you just grow in soil then wash the plants and replanting them in the towers held by the sponge? It just bothers me that extra cost to buy those plugs and throw them after every few weeks. Thanks.
Hi Saeed, before you go down the shipping container route, please watch this video first: ua-cam.com/video/pfVusG9whQg/v-deo.html - Shipping containers have a lot of constraints you may not be fully aware of yet.
You can definitely start seeds in soil and transplant. That's a great option. The plugs just help the soil from washing away into your system and clogging drippers. Hope that helps!
Bright Agrotech thanks for the reply. Grate videos with useful information. I have watched the video on the link you provided. It looks like this is a very risky thing to invest on especially when you try to inject 85,000$ to buy a ready made unit at one go.
Perhaps someone would wonder why I thought for a shipping container. It's simply about heat, expensive lands and the maintenance involved in green houses. Here we do face temperatures of around 14 degC in the winter to 47 or even 50+ degC in summer. If we go for a green house, they are cheap. We got a quote for one that will cover 400m2 customized as per my request for only13000$ semi automated and maybe possible to make it fully automated when you can plug it with something like the auto grow unit. It will come with a cooling wall and both, blowing and suction fans to accommodate the area. That's quite great for that price but cooling of this type is really not so efficient to grow things like high quality lattice, I believe so.
Not sure but I have visited some testing green houses managed by the ministry of agriculture and I was disappointed. Cooling walls had sand accumulated and plants in them weren't happy. Am not a farmer but I could tell. In the other controlled green house, hey had three rows all in hydroponic bucket setup. The temperature inside was purposely made to be harsh but each row of plants had a separate sump. Sump 1 had no cooler to cool the roots, sump 2 had a cooler at X1 degC and sump 3 had also a cooler at X2 degC. Row one with sump 1 had showed very tired plants and so on. Not sure what they are trying to prove but still believing that they won't be able to get rid of the green houses and direct sun light issues even with root cooling techniques though it sounds cheaper to run one cooling unit cooling a sump for the whole system.
Back to the talk about the cargo containers, I would only need a 2.5 Tone air conditioner to cool an area of 400 Sqrft. For the same area in a green house, I think I would need more air conditioning with lots of energy consumption to keep up with the temperature requirements. The fan and cool wall technique is not that practical in the long run and I believe it won't provide enough cooling for the leaves I am thinking of. The specification says that the system can bring down to temps from 8 to 12 degrees only. So if you are at 47 degC, you will still not be able to grow high quality lattice. If you have any advise, much appreciated on the heat part. I believe you and your team must have researched the hottest areas in USA. Texas would much resemble the climate here.
As you said, production in weight per certain period of time is the key. This makes sense. I am still thinking on the containers since hey have proved to grow plants. Unlike the green houses in places like here would be a terrible approach. Maybe we should try to make design that will allow a number of shipping containers to be linked to one another and share similar cooling and control equipments. Let's say we purchase 3 containers and attach them then open them between the walls in a certain way keeping in mind the design that will allow expansion of other containers in future. We would require less than 3 air conditioning units. Doing so, we will have saved to buy automation system for every container since we will have only one sump and one controller unit for dosing and other things, looped all around.
1. New un insulated container 4000$, used for 2500$. We can insulate it here and throw in it a domestic AC. Insulation cost shouldn't be more than a few hundreds.
2. New insulated container 20,000$, used for 5300$ with cooling system installed.
3. Dosing system for let's say 2500$
4. Water proof grow LED for 40$/ piece
5. Cost for grow towers.
Do you believe this idea would make some difference and worthy to go for?
Saeed Thani , love the details and your thought process. What system have you finally decided?
Your LED's suck. You could get after more grow room with LED lights that are as thin as a pencil. The rest is cool =D
not true. i work with hydroponics and zipgrow. its the color of the light you need to change if you experience trouble. they work really well and save energi.
So much power consumption.. we are producing plants not gold.. looks good but economically?
I think the signal (information) to noise (marketing) has really dropped on your latest videos. If you want to make money making food buy into ADM/MONSANTO/BASF/BAYER
If you are seeking food autonomy you have to reject anything "marketed".
Hi there, Perma. Thanks for the comment, although we're a little confused by the sentiment. Yes, this is very clearly a marketing video - "marketing" defined in the very basic terms of telling people about what our company does/offers. We totally understand there's a lot of negative sentiment about bad "marketing" out there and rightly so. Most of what passes for "marketing" these days is a lot of junk and very manipulative and generally something we try to stay away from. That said, we do need to sell products in order to stay alive as a company. Marketing videos like this allows us to share what our product can do for prospective farmers so we're not ashamed to talk about our products if that's what you're getting at. We're proud of what our products can do and how they can/are helping farmers around the world grow better food for their local markets. The sales from these products help us fund this channel and also our development of new, innovative products to continue making farming more accessible to those who want to pursue vertical farming. Hope that makes sense.