Tower Garden – Aeroponic Tower Farms
Tennessee Urban Farm, in partnership with Tower Farms, is here to assist you with planning, design, and construction consulting of your aeroponic Commercial Farm. A commercial farm can be established at ground level, on rooftops, in hotels and resorts, for restaurants, cafeterias in schools and universities. They can also be in green houses and indoor spaces with grow lights. They work almost anywhere you can imagine a farm.
Tower Garden Aeroponic Technology
The Tower Garden® product is a patented vertical aeroponic technology. It has been designed for decades of use! The Tower Garden is made from food grade plastic (PVC) and free of harmful components commonly found in today’s agriculture grade plastics. The PVC is completely opaque, which keeps all the sunlight out (inhibiting algae growth) and is several times thicker than almost all hydroponic products available in the market. It is also UV stabilized for outdoor protection. Most white plastics degrade quickly over time, due to the UV radiation tending to break down from inside out. However, not with the Tower Garden.
The Tower Garden® has a 20-gallon reservoir at its base. This reservoir stores the water with the Aeroponic Power-Gro ionic mineral nutrient solution. Inside the reservoir is a small, low wattage submersible pump which draws the nutrient solution up through the center all the way to the top of the Tower Garden® (see illustration, note that the Tower in the animation is about half as tall as a commercial tower). From there the water with the nutrient solution drips through a special device at the top of the tower that evenly cascades the solution over the plant roots. As it travels down the tower, the nutrient solution feeds the plants’ roots and becomes highly oxygenated as it travels back down to the reservoir. This process is continually repeated, providing nutrients, water and fresh oxygen to the roots of the plants. The continuum is managed with timers. The seedling plants for the Tower Garden® are started in natural rock wool fiber seedling cubes. After they germinate, the cubes are exposed to full light for a week or two and then placed in the plant ports of the Tower as hardy seedlings. Due to the design of the Tower Garden® system, the plants grow faster than they would in soil and need to be harvested often. The towers can be lined up in double rows, which can create from 120,000 to 250,000 plants per acre.
Project Consulting
Tennessee Urban Farm is a Commercial Tower Farm established in 2016. Located in Springfield, Tennessee, we produce local, living produce available year round. We also grow and provide seedlings for the Tower Garden® and ship them all over the United States. In addition, we offer workshops on aeroponic growing and harvesting. We have the expertise to guide the client through the technical aspects of planning and implementing a commercial Tower Garden Farm, whether outside or inside, on a rooftop or in a greenhouse, we will consult and guide through the process and get you down the path of owning your own Tower Farm! With Tower Garden, you can grow virtually anywhere, and we want to help you do just that!
Dan Hitch is the Technical Support Leader for TNUF and is here to support your technical questions for Commercial Tower Farming.
Note: Tennessee Urban Farm is authorized to work with JP distributors and Tower Gardeners that have a commercial Tower Garden farm lead. We have the expertise to guide the client through the technical aspects of planning and implementing a commercial Tower Garden farm. If you are a JP Representative you will now receive a 10% commission on the Tower Garden portion of the completed farm project. Please contact us for more information as we are excited to work with you and/or your client to build commercial Tower Garden Farms. Contact Mona Hitch 615-429-mona (6662).
A Few of our Tower Farm Clients
Retreat Farm 100+ Towers: Grows fresh produce for use at Holistic Wellness Retreat Facilities across the U.S.
Holistic Farm: 12 Towers – grows produce to aid in helping patients in a Holistic Medical Practice.
Church: 12 Towers – started as a farmers market to sell to the community. The children in the church manage the growing operation and put together a business plan each year, grow the produce, market to locals and sell the produce.
Urban Farm: 50 Towers – Grows for local community where they place orders and also contract grows for local restaurants.
AG Class at School: 10 towers funded by TVA grant to have students learn to grow, sell food to the community, budget and make a business plan.
Urban Farm: 25 Towers – grows and sells produce to local community and consistently sells out. Hoping to add Towers soon.
Aeroponic Workshops
Sign up for a workshop on aeroponic farming. We offer workshops where you can learn how to grow fresh, clean food utilizing the Tower Garden vertical farming technology. We will teach you how to grow in both the FLEX and the HOME units. You will learn how to grow seedlings, transfer to Tower Garden, grow and harvest the produce. For commercial farmers we can provide a custom workshop just for your needs.
Learn More About Tower Farms
Complete our inquiry form if you have additional questions or would like to discuss starting a Commercial Tower Farm.