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- My name's Travis Hines.
I'm the Manufacturing Coordinator here at Bright Agrotech,
and I'm also the Project Coordinator
for for this Farm Wall Laramie Project.
What we did today was set up this staging area right here,
and we're not quite ready to put up our walls downtown,
the Farm Walls themselves.
We wanted to make some room in the farm inside
by bringing these towers outside.
It's also really good to have this staging area
because it allows us to harden the plants.
If we bring the plants out
into full sun and full heat too fast
they will wilt and they will wear down
because they're not used to the intensity of the sun.
So that's why we have these shades comin' up here,
so that we can just give 'em a half sunlight
or just a couple hours of sunlight
and then that way we can harden 'em up
so they can get used to having a full day o' sunlight.
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So a coupla days ago I came down here and did this install.
We put in the trellises here on both sides
and then we mounted the top and the bottom gutters.
Today was a real smooth day, real smooth day.
With the install we had just a little bit of issues
with the brick, and we had one of our,
one of our screws stripped out.
But that wasn't a big deal.
So today I just came in, I fixed that,
scooted it over a little bit, re-drilled it,
and I think she's sturdy.
So the first thing that we had to do
because we had a little bit of issues last year
with security of the gutters onto the wall,
and so I decided to build a new bracket for it,
which you can see right here.
Just a metal strap that I bent up, cleaned up a little bit,
that way we could secure it to the wall real nicely,
and it has lot's of strength.
No worries about it.
So what we did is just went ahead and cleaned it up,
fancied it up with these fascia boards here,
and the suite brackets that we built.
And what I'm most proud of here
I think is this trellis system.
And the really cool plan for this
is that we're gonna take the tomatoes here
and we're gonna start to run 'em over the trellis
and pull 'em over and then start twistin' 'em
and windin' 'em across.
And then so hopefully all these cherry tomatoes
are gonna start runnin' out here,
and then that way we'll have a cascade of cherry tomatoes.
And I'm really stoked about that.
And so it was really easy once we had the design set up,
to come in and put it in.
All we had to do was drill the holes
and bolt it right up.
So that wasn't a big deal, really,
but what it did mean was
three or four guys, three or four hours,
and three ladders.
And we got 'er done!
Here we've got the cherry tomato,
which obviously I told you about.
Really excited about.
We have the parsley here.
This is a spearmint,
apple mint.
We had a Red Salanova lettuce,
a Green Salanova lettuce,
a rainbow, oh yeah!
Rainbow Swiss chard comin' up here,
with all of it's really cool colors.
Pretty colors here.
We've got basil, nasturtiums,
these are really cool.
These are gonna flower out in some really pretty flowers
that are also edible, and we're excited about that.
For garnishes mostly.
This one right here is probably my favorite on the wall.
And this is a Francesca broccoli,
which I've never grown before, but what it is
it's a lime-green broccoli that has a hexahedral spin to it,
and it's gonna be some really alien looking produce,
and it's gonna be awesome.
Comin' back to the Swiss chard here,
little bit more basil,
and then the cherry tomatoes again.
So obviously the next thing is to,
over the next coupla days I gotta make sure
that the wicking strips are in the proper position
and that they're getting the water that they need
to maintain the plant life.
That's really important, those wicking strips are huge!
And after that we're gonna watch it grow.
Let it grow, let it be beautiful,
let it provide some food.
And then we're gonna feed the people.
We're gonna start takin' it to the Food Pantry
and the Soup Kitchen and Feeding Laramie Valley.
And then we're also gonna start distributing it
to some of the restaurants in town that are interested,
in the basil, in the mint.
Hopefully you guys that are local will be able to come down
to the local restaurant and get a Mint Mojito
with mint that came right off the wall here.