Hydroponic U-Pick Vertical Farm in Florida

Creating a place where people can get fresh – really fresh – produce

By Jessica Clark
First Coast News
Nov 29, 2011

Excerpt:

“Really the goal was to create more of an attraction to the market,” Alexon explained.

So after a lot of research he built a one-acre hydroponic u-pick farm that grows about four acres of fruit, vegetables and herbs.

The plants are grown in small pots that are stacked on top of one another, and that means there’s more to harvest than if the plants were grown in the ground.

“It’s all vertical. It’s a spin environment where people can pick easily,” Alexon said, spinning a post full of potted strawberry plants.

And in those vertical buckets, there’s more than just big red strawberries.

Read the complete article here.

Also see “Vertical Food Gardens in the Urban Core” here.

The Farm here.