A cultivation floor system has a floor on which plant containers are to be placed. The system includes a watertight basin and a water-permeable structure in the basin, which structure has a permeable top cloth which forms the top side of the floor on which plant containers are placed. The structure includes one or more water-retaining layers. A watering installation supplies water so that water is available for the plants in the plant containers. A perforated film is placed between the permeable top cloth on the one hand and the one or more water-retaining layers on the other hand, which perforated film is made of impermeable film material which is provided with distributed perforations in such a manner that the film reduces the free evaporation surface for water from the one or more water-retaining layers.

The present disclosure relates to a module and system for indoor farming. In some embodiments, an indoor farming module includes a container compartment divided into a grow zone and a control zone, wherein a grow zone comprises a chassis with a plurality of horizontal and vertical frame members configured to support a plurality of carts each carrying a tray with a plurality of plants and wherein the control zone includes an air blowing unit integrated so as to direct air between a drop ceiling and a structural ceiling of the indoor farming module and an air conditioning unit configured to condition an atmosphere in the grow zone by producing cool dry air that is blown into a plenum space located between the drop ceiling and a structural ceiling.

A plant cultivation apparatus comprising a cultivation box which has a hollow rhizosphere portion for hanging a root of a cultivation plant, wherein: the cultivation box is constructed by detachably combining an upper panel and a lower panel; a bottom wall of the lower panel is provided with a waste liquid port and a trough-shaped gutter is detachably installed below the bottom wall of the lower panel over an entire length in a length direction; the upper panel is provided with nozzle-mounting holes at intervals in the length direction; a nozzle for spraying nutrient solution is inserted into each of the nozzle-mounting holes and hung in the rhizosphere portion; the upper panel is provided with planting holes for the cultivation plant; and a root of the cultivation plant is inserted into the planting hole and hung in the rhizosphere portion, to which the nutrient solution is sprayed from the nozzle.

The present invention relates to facilities for cultivating plants, said facilities essentially consisting of a combination of a conventional greenhouse and a shelf that is preferably automatically operable. In this respect, particularly advantageous combinatorial effects are achieved which drastically increase the degree of volume utilization of greenhouses and simultaneously considerably reduce staff costs for cultivating plants as well as for the harvest. The degree of volume utilization is increased in that, instead of floor planting or plant tables that are usually provided in greenhouses, a shelf system that is arranged relatively densely to comes into use. Said shelf system comprises a plurality of longitudinal and transverse rows as well as a plurality of planes. Moreover, the supporting frame of the shelf system itself may be used as the supporting structure for the greenhouse.

The invention is a customizable, slidable shelving and support apparati and system for supporting, storing and accessing horticultural and agricultural specimens within growing spaces, allowing growers to utilize the maximum amount of their linear horizontal and vertical grow space and service specific areas of the garden enterprise while also allowing for maximum workspace through the use of a table and track system that provides stackable options of multiple grow layers. A method of using this slidable shelving and support apparati and system is also included.

The present invention comprises a multilevel structure made up of several components that fit together to form a rectangular frame that can be combined with other such multilevel frame structures to form a desired size of greenhouse that can either be free standing, attached to the wall/fence or pegged to the ground. Additionally, the greenhouse offers a light intensity controller in the form of an externally provided or directly attached refractor/reflecting/magnifying lens/that can increase, reduce or change the amount of light. Furthermore, the greenhouse has the ability to run water tubing and electrical wires through its frame structure that allows humidity control, lighting and heating of the environment within, for hydroponic, aeroponic and conventional earth farming.

A system for growing plants, the system may include a substrate having one or more weakened areas or openings: one or more grow portions coupled to the substrate and situated at the one or more weakened areas or openings and having at least one seed or plant; and/or a fluid distribution portion coupled to the substrate and configured to provide fluid to the one or more grow portions. The system may further include a method of operation including one or more acts of: obtaining a weather forecast for a future time period; determining whether rain is expected during the future time period; and preventing, terminating, or restricting an irrigation cycle when it is determined that rain is expected during the fare time period. The restricting may restrict a flow of liquid during the irrigation cycle or shorten the irrigation interval.

An agricultural apparatus (1) that provides a system of vessels (2) arranged vertically for growing plants that allows crops to be grown in confined areas and in geographic areas where crops cannot normally be grown on various planet surfaces.

The present invention relates to a plant factory, which provides the following effects. The mesh-shaped floor is formed through the layer division support frame in the cultivation chamber, and the floor is divided into the cultivation layers having a multi-layered structure of two or more layers, thereby minimizing input resources and maximizing space and energy utilization efficiencies. In addition, a horizontal airflow is generally formed in each of the cultivation layers divided by the cultivation chamber air circulation supply unit, and an interlayer circulation airflow is formed between the respective cultivation layers divided by the mesh-shaped floor through the interlayer air circulation unit, and the cultivation table air supply unit creates a planting layer vertical descending air flow divided inside the cultivation table, which evenly improves the airflow rate regardless of the place in the cultivation chamber, reducing the deviation in temperature and carbon dioxide (CO.sub.2) concentration, and the net photosynthetic rate and plant may increase productivity by increasing the speed of growth.

A vertical farming system comprising: a plant storage frame including a plurality of horizontal guiding members; a plurality of plant receiving trays received on a corresponding horizontal guiding member for receiving a plurality of plants, the plant receiving trays being disposed adjacent each other and being laterally movable along the horizontal guiding members towards and away from an open front end of the storage frame, the plant receiving trays being connectable to each other such that movement of one of the plant receiving trays in a lateral direction moves the remaining plant receiving trays in the same lateral direction, the plant receiving trays being detachable from each other to allow each plant receiving tray to be removed from the storage frame through the open front end to be tended individually from the other plant receiving trays.