Strawberry production by indoor hydroponic farming in Northern Canada

“种植者”已经证明了利用水培和LED技术的垂直农业系统是一种高效、经济地生产食物的手段，特别是在由于永久冻土而无法获得土壤的北部地区，以及由于供应链长而易腐食品成本高的地区。在粮食不安全地区的许多社区，草莓是居民的最爱，零售商认为草莓特别难以采购，种植者认为草莓难以进行商业规模种植。具体来说，草莓很难从种子中培育出来，而结果的植株通常是由“胚芽”培育出来的，也就是从成熟植株的根茎（水平茎）中营养地生长出新的植株的过程。有很多现成的草莓苗供应商，但所有供应商都销售在土壤中种植的草莓苗，这一过程很有可能将植物病原体引入无菌水培系统，并对整个室内农场构成风险。这是一个为我们的北方客户提供草莓选择的机会，我们正在提议进一步研究开发室内水培草莓生产方法。

The Growcer has proven vertical farming systems utilizing hydroponic and LED technology as a highly efficient means of**producing food affordably, particularly in northern regions where soil is not available due to permafrost and where perishables are**costly due to long supply chains. Strawberries are a food cited by many communities in food insecure areas as a favourite of**residents, by retailers as particularly difficult to source, and by growers as difficult to cultivate at a commercial scale. Specifically,**strawberries are hard to cultivate from seed and fruiting plants are most often created from "runners", or the process of having new**plants develop vegetatively from the rhizomes (horizontal stems) of mature plants. There are many suppliers of ready-to-grow**strawberry runners but all suppliers sell runners cultivated in soil, a process that carries a high potential for the introduction of plant**pathogens to a sterile hydroponics system and risk to the entire indoor farm. Therein lies an opportunity to offer options for**strawberries to our northern customers, and we are proposing further research to develop methods for indoor hydroponic**strawberry production.