Verb Farms
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Start up and social enterprise

We are currently designing and building vertical farm technology to be used for the indoor farming of lettuce, kale, and herbs.  Our designs will reduce electricity use and allow for upgrades to robotic farming. Our aim is to become a social enterprise inspiring and educating our people into agritech, especially our tamariki, our children.
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We are currently fundraising for our project.
https://www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/6799-vertical-farming-a-collaborative-science-experiment

​Contact us if you would like to be one of the first to join us on this journey.

Vertical Farming

As populations grow and demand for housing increases, our agricultural areas are under pressure. In addition traditional methods of farming use large amounts of water and can cause problems with agricultural run off. Vertical farming provides a solution that uses artificial lighting and heating to allow vertical rows of plants to thrive throughout the year no matter what the weather. These farms have been shown to use 90% less water and land space.

Social Enterprise in Agritech Education

Creating a vertical farm with inovative technology is just the first part of our project. We are already working on ideas with tertiary organisations for agritech STEM kits for schools to inspire our tamariki, our children into tech and agriculture. We also want to educate and inspire adults to see that agricultural jobs can be modern and inovative.

Growing Technology

A combination of new lighting methods, dehumidifiers, climate control, automated nutrient control and growing software can reduce man hours and plant loss. ​We are currently doing research to see if we can create a plugin adapter to save up to 30% of the electrical cost of the grow lighting needed. As part of our research plan, we are experimenting with new trainable robotics so you can have a robot arm which will help you with basic tasks and allow you to run your farm remotely 90% of the time. Artiminds is partnering with us in this solution.

Vertical farming can save land and water use while providing locally based businesses and employment. 

All the Tools You Need to Succeed

Verb farms is currently a small research unit. We are keen to collaborate with high schools and iwi to discuss ways that this project can be used in the future to increase skills and self employed businesses.

Our container research will be done with leafy greens such as lettuce, spinach and herbs.