So let's start with the idea that
farming, is a revolutionary idea.
So the big difference between outdoor
farming and indoor farming is that in
outdoor farming you control nothing.
And in indoor farming, you control everything.
A vertical farm is nothing more than a
multi-story greenhouse.
It's not just a theoretical construct
anymore, people are building them.
The 'air' in AeroFarms relates to
aeroponics, the roots are getting
delivered nutrients via nozzle spraying them,
so we spray, we mist nutrition to the
root structure. And the cloth barriers
that nutrition, the leaves want carbon
dioxide, so we put in supplemental CO2
that hits the leaves.
And we deliver different spectrum of light
at different intensities, different
frequencies, to optimize plant growth.
Now these systems are 80 feet long, they're
five feet wide, it uses ninety-five
percent less water, it uses a fraction of
the fertilizer because it's so targeted and
it uses zero pesticides. One end of the side
is the beginning of the growing process
and then literally, just 12 to 16 days
later we have beautiful healthy produce
that's ready to be harvested and be able
to be enjoyed by the community.
The future of cities is the future of
sustainable activities that are totally
integrated, mixed-use buildings in which
people live and work in a building that
supplies food, for not just the people
that work and live in that building, but
also for people in the surrounding
neighborhoods.
Indoors farmers say, hmm I'm going to hook this up to my monitoring devices
and I'm going to grow lettuce, perfectly.
And they do.
We're able to speed up growth which gives us
approximately twenty two crop turns a year,
versus three in the field.
So you can continuously plant,
continuously harvest.
We as a species need to build farms in cities all over
the world.
So everyone has access to fresh,
wonderfully tasting, healthy, safe food.
If this idea continues to grow at the rate
it's growing now,
this will be a very different world ten
years from now, very very different world.
