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.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 13, 2021
Publication date:
January 13, 2022
Applicant:
Upward Enterprises Inc.
Inventors:
Dan Volpe, Nico Hawley-Weld, Matt Larosa, Rachael Klepner, Aftab Alam, Ben Silverman, Jason Green
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.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 29, 2017
Date of Patent:
September 14, 2021
Assignee:
Upward Enterprises Inc.
Inventors:
Dan Volpe, Nico Hawley-Weld, Matt Larosa, Rachael Klepner, Aftab Alam, Ben Silverman, Jason Green