Food Tube R & D Machine

40-Foot Container

• 12 metre container insulated with stainless steel liner
• Four sliding doors
• Four double glazed windows
• Built to international shipping standards
• Fully fitted with a composite racking system, consisting of 28 lineal rails
• 518 seed trays
• Seven water pressure controls
• Posts
• Roof support for racking system
• Two x Ultra Violet lights
• Air ducting system  

Requirements

• Area approximately 17 metre x 8 metres with a firm base (concrete is ideal)
• Water supply
-Power Supply

   Tomorrow’s garden - growing crops for human consumption

The sky is the limit when it comes to growing crops for human consumption in the Trans-World Foods system.

Made
to suit growers' specific requirements, our system will enable
producers to grow a variety of salad crops, vegetables or flowers in a
controlled eco-friendly environment, eliminating the need for herbicides
and pesticides.

Our system offers a secure and profitable
growing solution to cultivating high quality, nutritious produce by
reducing both food miles and distribution costs and ensuring a fresh
food supply that is closer to consumers.

Below are some of the crops of commercial interest.

 

Cabbage

You can grow green, red and curly-leafed Savoy varieties. Start
seeds in service module six weeks before planting time. Set plants 15 to
24 inches apart in rows spaced 2 to 4 feet apart. Harvest 50 to 100
days after setting out plants, 90 to 140 days after sowing

 

Lettuce

Leaf, butterhead, romaine (cos) and crisphead (also known as
'iceberg") lettuces are all suited to this system. Start seeds in flats
in the service module four weeks before planting time. Set out
transplants of crisphead lettuce in rows spaced 1½ to 2 feet apart with
seedlings 12 to 14 inches apart. Set out transplants of other lettuces
in rows spaced 1 to 2 feet apart with seedlings 6 to 8 inches apart.
Harvest leaf lettuces 40 to 50 days after sowing, butterhead and romaine
in 65 to 85 days, crisphead in 80 to 90 days.

 

Spinach

Spinach grows quickly into flower if the weather gets too warm or
the days too long so a controlled environment is a must. For best
results, sow seeds in the service module. Set out transplants in rows 1
to 2½ feet apart, with seedlings 3-4 inches apart. Harvest 40 to 50 days
after sowing.

 

Mushrooms

There are over 20 mushroom species commercially cultivated in around
60 countries including the popular Shitake, Portobello and Enoki. These
mushrooms could be grown all year round regardless of climatic
conditions.
Tomorrow's garden - growing crops for human consumption

 

Sprouts

Sprouts are rich in digestible energy, vitamins, minerals, amino
acids, proteins, beneficial enzymes and phytochemicals. Sprouts of
commercial interest include alfalfa and clover sprouts, sunflower
sprouts, buckwheat sprouts, rye sprouts and wheat including kamut and
spelt.

 

Cut flowers

A variety of cut flowers can be grown within our system. One variety that has good commercial value is the Tulip.
Before
Tulips will sprout and produce flowers, they need a chilling period to
simulate winter. You can simulate winter by placing the bulbs in the
service modules dedicated over wintering enclosure. Once the chilled
transplants are ready, they are brought into the growing module. The
environment is controlled to provide the correct length stems and
flowering period. As the bulbs grow the module adapts to the needs of
the plant and brings you harvests of beautiful flowers on a regular
basis.

 

Benefits of growing crops for human consumption

• No crop failures due to droughts, floods, pests, etc.
• Grown organically with no herbicides and pesticides
• Eliminate agricultural runoff, which is a major source of pollution.

• Allow farmland to be returned to the natural landscape,
restoring ecosystem functions