Jason L Green

US Patent:

20180042192, Feb 15, 2018

Filed:

Aug 29, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/689035

Inventors:

- Brooklyn NY, US
Nico HAWLEY-WELD - New York NY, US
Matt LAROSA - New York NY, US
Rachael KLEPNER - New York NY, US
Aftab ALAM - New York NY, US
Ben SILVERMAN - New York NY, US
Jason GREEN - New York NY, US

International Classification:

A01G 31/06
A01K 63/04
A01G 31/04
A01G 7/04

Abstract:

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.

Author:

Jason Green

ISBN #:

0595417299