Living Produce. Environmentally Controlled Vertical Agriculture

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

Vertical Farming How it Started Cal Poly Tech California

Vertical Farming Edible Walls First Large Scale Edible Walls, Los Angeles

Mobile Edible Wall Unit

Vertical Farming Edible Walls

Mobile Edible Walls Designed to be mobile farms Parking Lots Schools, Abandon Buildings, Roof Tops Tomato Eggplant Peppers Cucumber Squash Zucchini Herbs Greens

Vertical Farming Edible Walls First Large Scale Edible Walls, Los Angeles

Vertical Farming Edible Walls What is vertical Farming today?...

Part of the Community

Aesthetically Pleasant

Vertical Farming Edible Walls 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 Farming Edible Walls

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 Farming Edible Walls

Vertical Farming Edible Walls Research and Development GLTi has successfully grown everything from Potatoes, Leafy Greens, Root Crops, Melons, Herbs, Tomatoes, Eggplant and Much more.

Vertical Farming Edible Walls 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

Vertical Farming Edible Walls Services: Private Products / Contract Growing Herb / Produce Exchange programs Farm-to-Fork Wholesale to leading local Groceries Retail Sales and/or Restaurant Displays

Vertical Farming Edible Walls 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.

Vertical Farming Edible Walls Services & Products: 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.

Vertical Farming Edible Walls Services & Products: 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

Vertical Farming Edible Walls Services & Products: 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.

Vertical Farming Edible Walls 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 Farming Edible Walls

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???

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 INDUSTRIALIZED FOOD PRODUCTION

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 WHAT IS THE IMPACT OF INDUSTRIALIZED FARMING? 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 Vertical Urban Farming INDUSTRIAL FARMING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

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 LOCAL FOOD

HEALTH BENEFITS: - Fresh organic food in urban food deserts - Fosters healthy eating habits - Reconnection of people to their food - Improved nutrition, reduced disease ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS: - Stormwater runoff control - Improves water quality - Reduces Urban Heat Island effect - Reduces Air and water pollution - Saves Fossil Fuels by reduced Food Trucking LOCAL ECOMOMIC BENEFITS: - Stimulates Local Economies - Creates Green Jobs, attracts consumers - Landlords could rent their roof space - Reduces building utility costs Vertical Urban Farming ROOF TOP FARMING BENEFITS

Vertical Urban Farming SELF SUSTAINING FOOD FACTORY FLOW

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. Vertical Urban Farming FOOD FACTORY

Vertical Farming Hydro vs Compost 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?

Vertical Farming Hydro vs Compost 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

Vertical Farming Hydro vs Compost 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

Vertical Farming Hydro vs Compost 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.

Vertical Farming Hydro vs Compost 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!

Vertical Farming Hydro vs Compost Brix Chart Example: Quality of Plant ------> Poor Average Good Exc Broccoli (brix values) 6 8 10 12 Tomato (brix values) 4 6 8 12