Dan VOLPE,Nico HAWLEY-WELD,Matt LAROSA,Rachael KLEPNER,Aftab ALAM,Ben SILVERMAN,Jason GREEN
申请号：
US15689035
公开号：
US20180042192A1
申请日:
2017.08.29
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2018
代理人:
摘要：
A vertically-stacked growing system includes vertical beams and horizontal shelves respectively arranged on different vertical levels, Each horizontal shelf has a length and a width, and includes horizontal structural supports coupled to at least some of the vertical beams, decking coupled to the horizontal structural supports, and multiple walls to form a shallow pond when the horizontal shelf contains a plant nutrient water culture, thereby constituting a growing layer of the growing system. The walls include two side walls along the length and two end walls along the width. Each horizontal shelf further includes a loading and/or unloading apparatus to facilitate loading and/or unloading of a plurality of rafts into and/or out of the shallow pond, via the two end walls, wherein respective rafts of the plurality of rafts include a plurality of germinated plants. At least a first horizontal shelf further comprises a raft conveyance system to move at least a first raft of the plurality of rafts through a first shallow pond contained in the first horizontal shelf.
