Stories of Uncontained Innovation: Heron Farms
Heron Farms is the world's first saltwater vertical farm, using our world's most abundant resource, seawater.
AmplifiedAg is proud to power Heron Farms operations. From controlling the unique environmental elements and growth process of salt-tolerant plants and seed-to-sale tracking Heron Farms’ signature Sea Beans product, to supporting the company’s R&D efforts in freshwater recapture and indoor-to-outdoor scalability.
“We’ve been farming with freshwater, we humans, for 10,000 years, and the 2% of the water on the planet that’s fresh that we’ve been using to do that is shrinking,” says Heron Farms founder, Sam Norton.
“Learning how to tap into that 98% is going to be a big challenge for the next few centuries. And we’re not going to solve it, but we’re going to kind of try to help and AmplifiedAg loves being involved in that same mission to tap into such an abundant growing resource.
Heron Farms utilizes AmplifiedAg’s fertigation system, suite of environmental sensors and IoT Control Board, and AmpEDGE farm management software application. “These are things that we can’t operate a farm without and we can’t expect our customers to get a product which can’t be traced all the way back to the seed.
AmplifiedAg allows us to trace, to manipulate the environment, and to th