How to start hydroponics setup?

January 19th, 2016

How to build a setup similarly like that of Freight Farms and/or Cropbox? I am getting a shipping container for $2000 and its of the same size that Freight Farm uses. How can I get the rest of the components used in a shipping container farm and from where? Need help in commercially building it and how to increase my sales?

Glenn McCreedy Co-founder and CEO of Inara

January 19th, 2016

The University of Arizona in Tucson Arizona has the Controlled Environment Agriculture Center, a world leader in the field. They run seminars and workshops that are highly recommended. They are an excellent source of information of the kind you are seeking. You can find them at http://ceac.arizona.edu/ Check out the Greenhouse Crop Production & Engineering Short Course scheduled for March 20-25, 2016 You'll get tons of info and help for your venture.

Luiz Filho International Business Development at Geave Tecnologia Ltda

January 19th, 2016

On that...having the container box is the easy part. Everything you saw on the internet on both guys has to be build from scratch. There is a good piece of software to manage all in and outs and you need good people for that

Tushar Shetty

January 19th, 2016

Any more details that you can shed as to what components are used in those containers and where to source them from? Plus any manuals as to how to assemble them?

Jeffrey Landau Urban Agriculture Consultant

January 19th, 2016

Hi Tushar,

If you're looking for professional help establishing a vertical farm/urban farm, I work for a consulting group called Blue Planet Consulting.

If you are interested in our services you should fill out this survey - http://goo.gl/forms/ZwcDS3ExFn

I would also suggest checking out this blog, Agritecture. It offers a lot of insight into the industry and could help you find other companies and products related to urban agriculture and vertical farming.

Tushar Shetty

January 20th, 2016

Thanks a lot for all the help.

Aleks Mistratov Brigade

January 20th, 2016

I recommend getting in touch with Local Roots Farms out of LA. (localrootsfarms.com).

They're doing amazing things with shipping containers and AgTech.

Jeffrey Landau Urban Agriculture Consultant

January 20th, 2016

Local Roots is great! They're hiring! Check out their careers page - http://www.localrootsfarms.com/careers/

And back to the Freight Farms question - They use Bright Agrotech's ZipGrow Towers inside their containers. Very cool stuff! https://brightagrotech.com/

Hope this helps!

Alex Derish Agricultural Technology Consultant

January 21st, 2016

Currently working on such a project out of Bethlehem, PA. Please feel free to ping me with any questions!

How to start hydroponics setup?

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