Green Sense Farms

Not too long ago I was at a symposium presented by Bayer Crop Sciences and they had a technology session that blew me away. There was all of this talk about technology in combines, tractors, drones, software, irrigation… It was mind-boggling. One of the most interesting things that I heard came from the President of the country’s largest indoor, commercial, vertical farm which uses LED grow lights to replace the sun. Here is Green Sense Farms owner Robert Colangelo describing the system he uses in his indoor farm to replace the sun. “ It gives our rooms a very characteristically pink appearance because we use red and blue lights which provide the wavelengths that the plants really need to promote photosynthesis. It allows us to use less electricity and those lights burn very cool. You just mentioned in a meeting that you pulsed the light and there is some wavelength that tells the plant to photosynthesize. Well we don’t do that yet but that is where I see the future of LED lights, is being able to computer control the lights so that you can change the wavelength and the color of the light and also the pulse of the light. But we are far from that, I hope we would be able to do that in the next five years.