The Future of Farming, Part 1: Controlling the Environment Few earthly ag tech environments — at least in the United States — come more controlled than the Houweling’s Tomatoes Ultra-Clima greenhouse facility in Camarillo, Calif., where the company produces a broad range of tomatoes and cucumbers grown hydroponically under glass across 125 acres.Houweling’s is a family-owned company that operates a total 175.5 acres of high-tech hydroponic greenhouses in Delta, British Columbia, and Camarillo, where it runs California’s preeminent large-scale, energy-neutral vegetable greenhouse.Houweling’s collaborated with the Dutch company KUBO in the development and construction of the US$53.25 million Ultra-Clima greenhouse, a 23-ft.-tall, closed, pressurized, tempered-glass greenhouse structure designed specifically for use in hot and arid climates. Among its features are optimized humidity and temperature control, light-enhancing design, diminished pest pressure, higher CO2 levels inside the greenhouse, greater air buffer due to building height, and minimal water and nutrients usage through recirculation.In 2012, Houweling’s Tomatoes installed a GE combined heat and power greenhouse project that captures CO2 for use in plant fertilization. The heat-and-power cogeneration system captures traditionally wasted heat, water and CO2 for use within the greenhouse. The system — which provides 8.7 MW of electrical power and 10.6 MW of… Read full this story
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