Efficient Greenhouse Vegetable Production

摘要

Darrell Joseph uses his experience from the semiconductor industry to operate his greenhouse vegetable facility more efficiently. Darrell Joseph, owner of Bella Verdi Farms, in Austin, Texas, is seldom satisfied with the way he grows his lettuce, microgreens and herb crops. Since starting the business in 2004, he has been on a constant mission to find ways to increase production in his 13,000-square-foot Crider Americas greenhouse and the 1,000 square feet of indoor controlled-environment space he operates. "I always try to be more efficient," Joseph says. "Right now we are growing the same amount of microgreens in 4,000 square feet of space that we used to grow in 9,000 square feet. That's just a matter of learning and figuring out how to do morewith less. We took the existing greenhouse space and converted it into something that is more efficient."