HOME TOWN FARMS®.. Vertical Organic Urban Farming

[plain2growJim]

Keep up the good work! I have added your channel to my own hydroponics channel, HydroSock Hydroponics. Hydroponics, aeroponics, microfarming, and vertical farming are all farming techniques that will ensure people around the world have food and jobs.

[staranjela]

really informative and interesting

[jessyjessy4]

really informative and interesting

[samjenkinssam]

good work here

[ericajjful]

some really good stuff here

[ppzzzz0]

I am in. How do I go about opening up one in nj

[lupischuckle]

At around 2:20 of the video you show covers of newspaper articles (apparently) written by the NY Time and the LA Times. Where are these articles? I have not been able to scrounge them up. It's obvious that the images shown here are not the actual articles, but since you included the names of real newspapers, I assumed you based them on real articles. Am I wrong? Or did you falsify these to add some panache to your otherwise decent video?

[HomeTownFarms]

@lupischuckle These are NOT made up articles, they are based on real articles written by these papers. Here is the link to the LA Times article that it is based on latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op­-roberts-grier16-2008jun16,0,7­615018.story. I am trying to find the link to the NY Times article that it was based on.

[HomeTownFarms]

@HomeTownFarms If the link above to the news article does not work you can go to Home Town Farms twitter account and see it there. I just tweet it because these comment boxes do not allow you to put in full web addresses so I wanted to give you multiple ways of seeing the article

[oriocoookie]

@HomeTownFarms so lets say i am sold and want to use your methods out eastern europe ... can you provide financials / profitability / feasibility numbers? and how do we get in contact?

[manwhatupduck]

Right on!!!! Peace Out. MWUD

[jsostheim]

Just a question: how are you resoning that the produce is organic if it grow using hydroponics which is height of inorganic gardening?

[HomeTownFarms]

@jsostheim We are using certifed organic coconut fiber as the growing medium and all of the fertilizers are natural and accepted by the certifying agency. Even the seeds for starting the plants are certified organic. We use our own proprietary natural blends of fertilizers that we have developed over many years.

[LilyISay]

@jsostheim hydroponics does not have to be 'inorganic'. It can be a highly wasteful system or a highly efficient one depending on how it is managed. Of course, the less energy you use to move the water around, the better, but very good systems can be made using only one pump or none at all if you have the manpower. Growing mediums do not have to be manufactured-coco fiber, as these people use, is an excellent repurposed waste product that is pH neutral and very stable.

[jsostheim]

@LilyISay I appreciate your explanation. Up until now I've only seen hydroponics as inorganic, but you've made a little breach into the natural world. I'm a child of God and as such you'll have a hard time convincing me that God given soil with all the organisms that come with it and lots of TLC isn't the very TOP of the line. I appreciate that home town farms is trying to make something that was the epitome of inorganic, somewhat more natural and definetely better than lots of junk out there

[HomeTownFarms]

@jsostheim We grow using Hydro-Organic growing systems. This allows the plant's roots to draw their nutrients from a living eco-system thriving in organic compost . No synthetic or petroleum based chemicals are used.

[yauc56871]

@HomeTownFarms "Observing the framework of organic farming based on its foundation of sound management of soil biology and ecology, it becomes clear that systems of crop production that eliminate soil from the system, such as hydroponics or aeroponics, can not be considered as examples of acceptable organic farming practices."

[yauc56871]

@yauc56871 Hydroponics, the production of plants in nutrient rich solutions or moist inert material, or aeroponics, a variation in which plant roots are suspended in air and continually misted with nutrient

solution, have their place in production agriculture, but certainly cannot be classified as certified organic growing methods due to their exclusion of the soil-plant ecology intrinsic to organic farming systems and USDA/NOP regulations governing them."

[HomeTownFarms]

@yauc56871 All most all Hydroponic and Aeroponics farmers do not grow organically because the living eco-system causes organic material and Legnin to clog the water tubs and therefore it becomes more costly to maintain but you can grow organically in Hydroponic and Aeroponics. We grow using Hydro-Organic growing systems. This allows the plant's roots to draw their nutrients from a living eco-system thriving in organic compost . No synthetic or petroleum based chemicals are used.

[HomeTownFarms]

@yauc56871 We grow using Hydro-Organic growing systems. This allows the plant's roots to draw their nutrients from a living eco-system thriving in organic compost . No synthetic or petroleum based chemicals are used. As my partner would say we feed the organisms in the living eco-system and they feed the plants.

[yauc56871]

@HomeTownFarms I understand, but is your system certified organic by an inspector from the USDA organic program? I see lots of people using the term organic because materials used are, but to use the term, the inspection should be done and a certificate issued. If this is the case, I would love to be directed to more literature on it because I think the process is cool.

[PhxGreenHomeConcepts]

Nice work

[kalif3000]

If the food produced is cheaper than the food transported around the world, for real, than is see now reason why this concept will establish itself as standard in food production. I like!

Keep the prices low and the future is yours!

[HomeTownFarms]

That is our goal, to share the savings with the consumer:))

[zellerz1216]

amazing idea. at first i was skeptical, but this is amazing. good work!

[HomeTownFarms]

Thanks! Please help spread the word via email, Facebook or Twitter. This is the only way that everyone will be able to afford or even get locally grown, vine ripened, organic produce that is healthier for you, saves natural resources and saves money.

[camiec]

This Is awsome, I want in!!

[HomeTownFarms]

You can go to our web site and it will provide contact information for us.

[jksatte]

How do we get information on a franchise. This seems exactly what I have been looking for.

[HomeTownFarms]

Please go to our Home Town Farms web site and click on Contact menu button on the top right of the page.

[satellitetune]

I liked your video very much.

[gwk4657]

I liked your video very much.

[TheWholefoodfarmacy]

I liked your video very much.

[evawaybrannan]

How much space is required for one of these?

[mcastro619]

All of the systems used here are hydroponic. Some are vertical tower systems (not shown here) and dutch trellis systems. The entire model is vertically integrated from growing to market

[shova213]

Now that is a progressive future. One were we teach our children in schools how we as a civilization, learnt how to grow food in urban areas improving the environment

[FishyMoe]

is this hydro grown?

[mcastro619]

@FishyMoe Yes it is all hydro grown using organic fertilizers

[cramlow1]

Is this really vertical farming? it seems more like a top-down hydroponic system, but there is nothing particularly vertical about it. Great video and good luck

[alexis22r]

i think should marry a farmer . very interesting video

[HomeTownFarms]

Yes. we use only proven growing systems that have proven track records. 

[HomeTownFarms]

As many items that we can produce local and sell local the better off we all are:))

[riteshMantamrakar]

interesting. any mathematics to show how much will be saving compared to traditional farming?

[jedesignz]

Really liked your video and the idea. We need things like this to sprout up all over.

[HomeTownFarms]

We agree!!

[mipoleon]

franchise?

[HomeTownFarms]

Yes we will be franchising.

[rubycreek]

I hope that you are willing to work with local organic farmers, instead of adding to the long list of people who are already not helping.

[HomeTownFarms]

We are a big fan and supporter of local farmers. We are counting on local farmers to help offer a complete line of local products to our customers, including those that we will not be growing in our greenhouse.

[HomeTownFarms]

We specialize in growing vegetables and berries in the city, so we do not grow oranges. We can grow vegetables and berries in cold climates by using green houses.

[turgore]

can you grow oranges in a cold climate ?

[RCvolunteer1978]

@turgore Yes you could grow any type of plant and/or animal if you provide the correct climates inside the growing space It was done in a small scale during WW11 in England But Most people do not remember it

But It also has been done in Skylab in the 1970s What need more people willing get off their back side and get involved Gardening of any type gets much more Healthier benefices then Mass production Companies

[Jboogie19]

Between this (vertical farming), permaculture, and rainwater harvesting, the future looks beyond promising. Just gotta get more projects established and communicate what works with anyone willing to act.

[SecularResponse]

Love

[filmdudeguy]

Awesome is right!!! This is the future!!! If not... we won't have one!! Keep up the great work! Homerun Brother!

[FXCAMERON]

Awesome. How come we aren't already doing this everywhere. There are vacant lots in my city used for nothing for years.

[astrialkil]

@FXCAMERON Because YOU personally haven't built or paid for them... these farms don't grow on trees. YOU have to take care of YOUR city! If you wont or cant then who could? Some nameless rich guy isn't going to cut it. rich guys are usually doing something already. When a rich guy builds such a place, then their money is tied up for 10-20 years. They cant do anything for that amount of time.