Modular farms open doors to commercial-scale plant production
A variety of configurations allow the CubicFarm growing modules to be customized to the crop. This image shows spring greens in production. Source: CubicFarm Systems Corp. Set against a backdrop of snow-capped mountains, what looks like a Quonset hut sits amid blueberry fields in the Vancouver suburb of Pitt Meadows flanked by what appears to be a dozen shipping containers. But the arched structure is the command centre of a new kind of controlled-environment agriculture system, one that could make plant production more efficient and enhance local food security. Known as CubicFarm modules, t...
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