Hi this is Nate Storey from Bright Agrotech and today we're going to talk about what is
a ZipGrow Tower and why we use them.
So this is a ZipGrow Tower.
It's a special design that's really different from every other tower design on the market.
It's a single-face tower design that uses a housing right here and special media that
we have inside of here to grow plants in aquaponics systems or hydroponics systems.
Now the nice thing about these towers is that they're really flexible and that you can stack
one in front of the other and get really great production, even when the towers are massed.
So to grow using these towers, we incorporate plugs between a folded strip of media that's
pulled into the tower.
The plugs stick out of the very front and they grow there just like this.
And, um, they grow quite well.
To irrigate them, the water basically is dribbled in the top of the tower and it trickles down
through the media, through the plant roots, we keep redworms in there and we have all
sorts of other bacteria in there.
And they basically just metabolize the waste and help those plants absorb all of the waste
nutrients from our system.
So by growing this way, we're able to double or triple what we can do horizontally, and
typically double what we can do with other tower
system designs.