Environmentally Controlled Vertical Agriculture · Vertical Urban Farming FOOD FACTORY SELF...

“Living Produce”

Environmentally Controlled Vertical Agriculture

Vertical Farming – How it Started

• Roof Top Farms

Slopes and Undulations

• The First Sloped Roof :

•The Green Living Wall panels were the

development of a sloped green roof

application.

• 4 generations of changes

• Below is generation 1

Vertical Farming – Edible Walls

Cal Poly Tech California

Vertical Farming – How it Started

First Large Scale Edible Walls, Los Angeles


Mobile Edible Wall Unit

Tomato

Eggplant

Peppers

Cucumber

Squash

Zucchini

Herbs

Greens

Mobile Edible Walls

Designed to be mobile farms

Parking Lots

Schools, Abandon Buildings,

Roof Tops

First Large Scale Edible Walls, Los Angeles


Copyright 2009 Green Living Technologies & GLT Food Factory


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“GLTi Vertical Farms”

What is vertical Farming today?....


Part of the Community

Aesthetically Pleasant

What are GLTi’s Vertical Farms?

• Indoor vertical and roof top urban farms

• The advanced technology of GLTi Vertical/Edible Walls

• Utilizes Existing Urban Buildings Retro Fitted to Grow Food

• Strategies for Seasonally Expanded to Parking Areas and Roofs

• Maximizes Space with the Patented Vertical/Mobile Edible Walls

• Combines Organic Composting Technology with Vertical Growing

•Reducing Water and Energy Requirements

• Job Training and Placement

•Venues for “Hands-On” Green STEM ED

What it’s NOT…….

•Highly Mechanical or Specialty Equipment

•Unproven Conceptual ideas & Concepts

•Hydroponic


Vertical Farms can be implemented

almost anywhere with common

off the shelf materials.

Optional Full Spectrum LED Lights

Customizable Dimensions

A pioneer in “Zero Miles” from farm to table with indoor and outdoor edible walls for growing fresh

fruits and vegetables in urban environments. Food Production Facility have the following

Characteristics:

1. Take any open space and create a Food Production Facility – new or existing floor plans will be

custom configured to optimize production.

2. The Mobile Edible Wall will effectively triple the growing area versus a horizontal layout.




“Vertical Farm Orig Concept

Masdar City”

Research and Development

GLTi has successfully grown everything

from Potatoes, Leafy Greens, Root Crops,

Melons, Herbs, Tomatoes, Eggplant and

Much more.





“Potato harvest”

Advanced Growing Medias

Advanced media development using

compost in a semi solid form providing

perfect air to water ratios. No loose media

makes this a perfect application for

restaurants, grocery stores, café’s and more


Services: • Private Products / Contract Growing

• Herb / Produce Exchange programs

• “Farm-to-Fork”

• Wholesale to leading local Groceries

• Retail Sales and/or Restaurant Displays


Services & Products:

• Private Products / Contract Growing

Platinum Service:

Lease panels that are specific to your

request.

greens vertical farm grows and delivers your

produce, the panels are exclusive to you and

no other customers.

Panels are delivered still growing and alive.

You harvest as needed.

Customize delivery dates for specific events,

days or holidays.



• Herb / Produce Exchange Programs

Panels of produce are delivered on schedule

Spent / used panels are exchanged with

new ones with new fresh growth.

Can be installed in the kitchen or in the

dining area for display and moderate use.

Minimum 3 day exchange requirement.



• “Farm-to-Fork”

In house service ideal for café and / or

clients who want to grow onsite and bypass

the delivery service.

greens vertical farm services will include the

installation and maintenance of the in house

farm, replacing panels, replanting as

needed.

The panels are housed at the clients location

for ongoing display and use.

Suggested ideas: Grocery or Juice bars



• Retail or Restaurant Displays

Used as marketing pieces and minimal use.

Freestanding or wall mounted.

Can be used to attract attention, provide

novelty salad bar, herbs can be used to

“freshen up” a clients plate. Can also be

small mobile unit.

Provides a persona and stimulates the

senses of smell, touch and sight with an

incredible array of herbs and living edible

plants. Even though the chef may never use

them the patrons leave with a WOW

experience.


Delivery Service & Products: GLTi’s vertical farm will deliver living

produce exceeding a 5 star rating.

The highest quality means visually perfect

all the time every time.


Vertical Urban Farming INDUSTRIALIZED FOOD

PRODUCTION

Our inexpensive mass produced Food

relies heavily on Oil for

- Farm Equipment Fuel

- Herbicides, Pesticides, and Fertilizers

- Food Processing and refrigeration

- Food additives, vitamins and

preservatives

- Food Packaging

- Shipping of Food Products to Distribution

centers

- Trucking food to Stores, Restaurants,

Hospitals, Schools ect

- Consumers driving to stores to obtain

food.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN CHEAP OIL IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE???

Vertical Urban Farming INDUSTRIALIZED FOOD

PRODUCTION

On Average it takes 10 calories of energy to produce 1 calorie of food

For Grain Feed Beef it takes 35 calories to 1

For Iceberg lettuce shipped across the Atlantic 127 calories to 1

Vertical Urban Farming INDUSTRIAL FARMING ENVIRONMENTAL

IMPACT

One shopping basket of imported organic products could release as much CO2 into the atmosphere as an average 4 bedroom household does through cooking meals for over 8 months

Industrialized farming using oil based fertilizers have depleted most of our soil of essential micro-organisms and other minerals such that only 3-5 of the necessary 70 trace minerals for healthy crops are replaced WHAT IS THE IMPACT OF INDUSTRIALIZED FARMING?

Vertical Urban Farming LOCAL FOOD

Buying locally produced food is a critical step in reducing oil dependence and mitigating global warming As well as reduce greenhouse gas emissions CSA’s and COOP’s also create a sense of community and security around food sources. Buying Local Reconnects people to the source of their food, empowers them in taking control of their health, gives people a greater respect for their food, and provides them much greater nutritional content in their food.

Vertical Urban Farming ROOF TOP FARMING BENEFITS

HEALTH BENEFITS: - Fresh organic food in urban food deserts - Fosters healthy eating habits

ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS: - Stormwater runoff control - Improves water quality

LOCAL ECOMOMIC BENEFITS: - Stimulates Local Economies - Creates Green Jobs, attracts consumers

- Reconnection of people to their food - Improved nutrition, reduced disease

- Reduces Urban Heat Island effect - Reduces Air and water pollution - Saves Fossil Fuels by reduced Food Trucking

- Landlords could rent their roof space - Reduces building utility costs

Vertical Urban Farming SELF SUSTAINING FOOD FACTORY FLOW

DIAGRAM

Vertical Urban Farming FOOD FACTORY

SELF SUSTAINING VERTICAL FARMING FACILITY - Recycles all waste, composts and recovers heat - incorporates solar panels, vermiculture, bio conversion, aquaponics, geothermal, composting, anerobic digestors and other technologies.

Panels of produce are delivered on schedule

Spent / used panels are exchanged with

new ones with new fresh growth.

Can be installed in the kitchen or in the

dining area for display and moderate use.

Minimum 3 day exchange requirement.

Vertical Farming – Hydro vs Compost

The next environmental

threat…..Hydroponic

growers.

• Chemically infused water

needs to be disposed of

• Where do you think that

water goes?


No such thing as Organic

hydroponics

• hydroponic produce

produces big, watery fruit

that is very low in mineral

content.

• hydroponics is not

nutrient dense food


• No mineral solution can

ever take the place of

black, worm filled,

organic soil that is

carefully tended and

worked by the farmer

season after season.

• Or in the case of vertical

farming harvest after

harvest!

• Nitrogen fixing bacteria,

Microbes, fungi all

contribute to a symbiotic

relationship between the

pant and the nutrient

uptake


Organic Hydroponics Tests

Very Low Brix

• organic hydroponic produce is

relatively nutrition less can be

easily and quickly measured

with an instrument called a

refractometer

• The minerals in high brix

produce are readily and easily

assimilated when eaten

because they are in naturally

chelated form.


High Brix Lasts Longer

• High brix produce is resistant

to insects, disease and rot.

Have you ever noticed how

that box of organic hydroponic

strawberries from the store

looked so beautiful on the

shelf but a mere 2 days later,

the berries have developed

large spots of rot that have to

be cut away?

• Produce that rots quickly is

indicative of low nutrition, poor

quality fruit – organic or not!


Brix Chart Example:

Quality of Plant ------> Poor Average Good Exc

Broccoli (brix values) 6 8 10 12

Tomato (brix values) 4 6 8 12


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