Auburn University’s Agriculture Department converted a shipping container into a vertical farm to grow and produce food to serve to students. With these stations plants can grow vertically indoors without soil, getting their nutrition from water and light energy from powerful LEDs.
Right now they are growing 18 different types of lettuce but they are planning on growing other types of plants.
“We purchase this little plug that is preliminarily made of peatmoss and we put the seed in there, the seed germinates and inside the container, there are lights that help the little seedling start to grow they grow for about two weeks and then we put them in the vertical wall,” said Head of Horticulture, Desmond Layne.
The containers are equipped with their own climate control system which includes air that stays around 70 degrees.
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