'New-style farmers' can grow 4 tons of agricultural products a year without sunlight

If this form of farming is further developed, we can absolutely bring them out into space.

Farm right in the heart of the city

Silverstein is a crop specialist from Freight Farms, the company that created the L eafy Green Machine (the name of the model above) - mainly, the company will transport containers that are full of equipment and facilities. Hydroponic plants can produce from 2 to 4 tons of agricultural products a year, in any form of climate or location. Silverstein said: "You can put it in the parking lot or sidewalk, so you don't need to choose where there is good land." The shortage of agricultural land is the difficulty of urban people who want to grow their own agricultural products, but now all problems will be solved.

Inside the Leafy Green model.

According to MIT Tech Review, the best thing about this machine is that it can grow climate-sensitive plants in cold environments, such as snow in Boston, and Silverstein is aiming further: Planting crops outer space. Freight Farms worked with NASA to find a way to get the Leafy Green Machine into space. Silverstein said: "We have looked at methods to speed up the growing time and ways to reconstruct inputs and seeds over time, because input is an important factor for real growth. objects in space ". She also added: "I think it's really an interesting and challenging job. Not only with space but also making the company's farming system more complete and sustainable. ".

Generation of "new-style farmers"

Silverstein is part of a group of young people with a high level of education who consider agriculture to be a special industry group in the world. According to the US Department of Agriculture, the number of farmers from 25-34 years old has increased by 2.2% since 2007-2012, this is the second growth in the last century of this particular sector. Among those young farmers, 69% are those who have a university degree. Silverstein said: "I have learned about business and environmental policy, so I think that agricultural and food development is one of the most practical ways to minimize environmental problems."

Jaime Silverstein and his crops.

Contribute to life development

When at the desk, Silverstein was a customer service staff member, and otherwise analyzed the data from Farm Freight test setups. For the rest of the time, she was always excited to transplant the seedlings to test how to get the best salad and spicy bunches from Freight Farms Leafy Green apparatus. As a crop specialist and a farmer, scientist, and a serious desk worker, this is really a model for the enthusiasm that young people need to reach.

Spending all my time on the machine was the result, but the results were not satisfactory - some trees were dead - for Silverstein, this was the hardest part of the job. She said: "They think I should do it differently, or these crops don't guarantee quality. So I want to make them better."