FoodHub and GrowLab: High-Tech concepts for modern horticulture

The FoodHub is a volume and quality triggered, highly automated and 100% sustainable producer of vegetables with produce focused on the top segment of Fresh and
Convenience Food for the Russian, Arabian, European and Asian markets. The focus of its marketing is on the positive health effects of vegetables and fish as health food and the effect of vitamins and minerals on gaining a healthy way of living. The Food Hub Project strives to a zero Carbon Footprint.

The FoodHub can produce most of its crops all year round due to a Controlled Atmosphere Greenhouse System, adapted to specific local circumstances, which is unique in the world. The Food Hub Project will offer sustainable products, which not only should not contaminate the environment but also protect it and even liquidate existing environmental damages.
Communication with the market should put stress on quality and environmental aspects, which should be supported by relevant certification. Efforts to expand and diversify vegetable production and consumption require the development of country-specific, multi-sector policies and programs that address issues of both supply and demand.

The GrowLab is a climate controlled closed room in which the perfect growing environment can be created. The Livingstone concept is based on the use of semi-closed packaging which can be seen as a mini-greenhouse which preserves the perfect growing conditions without having to be in contact with the plants. In the packaging, the crops are grown in a multi-layer system under LED lights. The Livingstone concept is fully automated to prevent losses by diseases or mistakes in environmental management.
Because of the semi-closed containers, a minimum of water and fertilizers is required,

Using the GrowLab makes it possible to produce special varieties of seedlings of the highest possible quality with the lowest risks and costs all year round. The market
for high-quality seedlings is substantial all over the world. Tissue Culture, the most successful way of micro-propagation is the growing of plant cells on specially designed medium (gel or liquid). In the medium, cells will form a cluster of not-organized cells that differentiate into small plants. It is used for vegetable and tree multiplication to produce virus-free plants. There are no genetic modifications introduced, so plants propagated with Tissue Culture are not Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO).
Common methods of propagation are labour-intensive, low in productivity and seasonal.