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| Our newest farm is being graded so that plants may move from propagation through all the growing pads by a gravity conveyor system similar to what big warehouses use to move thousands of packages. We are adding water retention ponds to remediate both incoming and outgoing water flows using filtering plants which we will also propagate to use on other large scale water remediation projects. Our Enviromental scientist Katie McKone, of Castor Logic LLC, has designed a system that will remove Atrazine runoff from a adjacent Soybean field using native grasses and Poplar trees to filter the water. We have planted thousands of evergreen trees for our first year's crop and will be planting our decidious trees this winter. |
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| 2 story solar heated warehouse and second floor greenhouse maintains a day temperature of 68 deg. on a 30 deg. day with no additional heat source. Our design concept of the inflatable roof steel building is a first for Atlas Metal Buildings and will save us $ every winter day. A concrete floor with heat tubes stores the heat gain from the day and releases it at night. In the summer cool air from under the floor will be assisted by an evaporative mist cooling system. We have located our potting machines into this building which will give us a comfortable year round indoor work environment for our potting crew. The second Mezzanine floor will be used for propagation and has a plant elevator to lift cart loads of propagation trays to the upper level. An outside second floor garage door allows a loader to dump mix through the door into a mixer without having to enter the building. |
| Using an existing stand of young Sycamore's is part of our site plan.We have planned our buildings, roads and planting beds around the trees and spaded about 30 that were in the way of construction. |
| By installing retaining walls to step down the grade we minimize our earth moving, facilitate drainage, and give us the slope to gravity convey our plants from pad to pad. Every facet of this project is designed to showcase new agricutural construction ideas, new organic plant growing methods, and new nursery production methods to lessen labor costs, increase production, and be more sustainable in our use of resources. Our goal of growing Organic food and landscape plants hinges on our abilities to be good stewards of our land. |
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