Products: Farming Systems
At Greensulate, we transform barren spaces and empty plots into thriving ecosystems, employing natural farming practices that help them thrive.
Here’s the main elements we consider when helping you realize the full potential of your space.
Plants need light for photosynthesis, a process that turns solar energy into sustenance. Options here include natural light, controlled lighting, or a combination of both. Natural means sunlight, while controlled involves a system of lights preprogrammed and directed by the needs of the plant or crop.
Customized LED lighting helps plants grow up to two and half times faster, with 40% less power, 80% less food waste and 99% less water usage than outdoor fields.
Medium, describing where the plants’ roots grow, can be split into two distinct areas:
Soil: Made up of organic matter that supplies nutrients to the plants.
Soil-less: Different from traditional soil because it serves as a structural system for the plant’s roots. It is made of natural material such as volcanic rock or coconut fiber, mediums that hold different bacteria and fungi than soil.
Space indicates where the plants grow, the direction and in which formation they are grown. The location, formation, and the air quality available, collectively have a significant effect on productivity.
Exterior: Outdoors farming in grade or installed on rooftops. Interior: Indoors growing utilizing any type of medium, water or lighting conditions. Vertical systems: Increase yields while using less space. These systems are generally stacked or grown perpendicular to the ground. They can be integrated into existing structures or installed stand-alone. Traditional: Crops yielded on flat land.
The way plants receive water can affect their yield and growing capabilities. There are two distinct systems available:
Hydroponic: Plants grow at a faster rate than soil grown plants. Roots are either exposed while suspended in air or in a soilless media, where plants are fed water mixed with nutrient solution.
Aeroponic: Similar to hydroponic systems as they feed roots directly with a nutrient solution mixed with water. In Aeroponic systems, however, the roots are exposed and exist in a constantly moist environment.
Both systems reduce water, pesticides and fertilizer usage.
Plants need light for photosynthesis, a process that turns solar energy into sustenance. Options here include natural light, controlled lighting, or a combination of both. Natural means sunlight, while controlled involves a system of lights preprogrammed and directed by the needs of the plant or crop.
Customized LED lighting helps plants grow up to two and half times faster, with 40% less power, 80% less food waste and 99% less water usage than outdoor fields.
Products: Green Roofs
Green roofs help facilitate the reimagining and revitalizing of post-industrial landscapes. These living roof systems are engineered to improve the quality of our environment, building infrastructure and lives.
Each roof consists of:
Greensulate has long been at the forefront of green roof technology. Our team has the expertise to ensure that your design and installation needs will be completely satisfied.
Choose your green roof from three categories:
Extensive Roofs:
Lightweight, low-maintenance, cost efficient, good for large areas with maximum benefits. A simpler option with a growing medium of six inches or less, these are the easiest to install and typically are planted with sedum trays or mats due to limited space for deep roots.
Intensive Roofs:
With increased soil depth, these roofs can accomodate pretty much any planting schedule under the condition that the roof can handle the load capacity. From tree beds to agriculture production, these roofs often include a multitude of amenities and provide space where people can interact with natural surroundings.
Hybrid Roofs: (semi-intensive):
By utilizing the best of both green roof types, a hybrid roof can have widely varied soil depths and can also incorporate gathering spaces. This offers versatility for differing roof needs and the ability to design with value in mind.
Whichever route you decide to take, there are a long list of benefits to implementing a green roof.
Benefits include:
- The accumulation of LEED Points
- Increased property values
- Increased solar efficiency
- Extended roof life and increased building resiliency
- Reductions in building energy usage of up to 75%
- The attraction of natural wildlife such as birds & bees
- Increased insulation
- Better storm water management
Products: Greenhouses
In a controlled indoor environment you can extend your growing season, grow a wider variety of plants beyond the climate’s limitations, and closely monitor plant development.
At Greensulate, we can design, install and manage a range of greenhouses that vary in type and size, depending on the budget, geographic location and goals attached to each phase.
From soil to hydroponic, to vertical or traditional, our team of professionals create customized made to measure greenhouses for both hobby and commercial growers on ground or upon rooftops.
We implement living system design, be it vintage, standard or commercial, optimizing growing conditions specific to your plants' needs.
Therapeutically, greenhouses also offer significant rewards. Surrounded by plants in a closed environment, they provide a tranquil respite from the pressures of the outside world.
The influence of Greenhouses on mental wellbeing are taken advantage of by educational institutions and corporations alike!
Benefits of “going greenhouse” include:
- Environmentally conscious growing
- Extended growing season for all produce with increased yields
- Increased solar efficiency
- Grow anything: Tropicals, exotics, more
- Pesticide free protection
- Biomimicry capabilities
- Increased insulation
- Reduced entropy and water loss
Products: Living Walls
Living green walls are the vertical equivalent of a green roof.
By bringing nature into urban settings, they drastically improve air quality and like green roofs, are a major tool in reducing the urban heat island effect, which in turn reduces energy consumption.
Livings Walls help make cities cooler and quieter through shading and the absorption of sound by plants.
They also help mitigate loss of biodiversity due to the effect of urbanization, and bring a healthy dose of much-needed tranquility to nature-challenged landscapes.
Benefits include:
- Improved energy efficiency
- Structural support
- Better air quality
- Noise reduction
- Increase biodiversity
- Elevated environment
Living Walls also offer the opportunity for urban agriculture, such as vertical gardens of small fruits, vegetables, and herbs, and can support a number of water recycling systems.
Our experts work with a Living Wall system called Vertexx, developed and patented by Green Wall Ventures. Collectively we will help you design and install the Living Wall that works best for you.
