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, the indoor food-grade stainless steel growing chambers that flank the central work area can produce 6,240 heads of lettuce onsite every three weeks, as well as other produce, herbs, and microgreens. A conveyor cycles more than 250 growing trays along a patented undulating path in as little as 90 minutes, receiving light and nutrient-rich water along the way. Each module consumes approximately 1
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Langley-based CubicFarms will use the new money to continue research and development in optimizing machine yields, automation, and functionality; expand crop varieties; and take its technology solution products to market. These patented technologies are developed at their research and development facility in Pitt Meadows.
One farming machine they have developed is the CubicFarms vertical agricultural system for the year-round growing of leafy greens and other crops indoors, which significantly reduces the costly physical labour and energy that is currently associated with the indoor faming industry.
Another farming solution is the HydroGreen system for growing nutritious livestock feed, involving a unique process to sprout grains, such as barley and wheat, in a controlled environment with minimal use of land, labour, and water, and without fertilizer and chemicals. This system is fully automated to complete all growing functions, including seeding, watering, lighting, harvesting,