Canada’s Farm Show kicked off Day 2 with more tools and tricks for people to grow their own food at home. For Rick Langille, growing food comes with an easy-to-use growing system operated from a person’s phone.
Langille is the founder and CEO of Harvest Today, a company that promotes indoor agriculture for year-round growing. “It’s amazing; we are finding people that want good, healthy food,” Langille said.
Harvest Today’s product, The Harvest Wall, has six small grow pots per tile with vertical irrigation channels down the backside. Each tile can be stacked one by one and side by side to make 120 tiles growing 720 plants.
Langille said the best part of his product is that it is incredibly easy to fit into small areas. It makes it simple for people to have smaller operations going on in their house, and kids can get involved in the gardening.
The hydroponic system uses vertical irrigation channels. The flow of water drips down onto the plants in the holsters into a tray below, then to the flood rail to the plants and back again.
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