Water's Journey: Inside a hydroponic container farm

Added on 09 April 2024

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Water's Journey: Inside a hydroponic container farm

These grow trays hold plants in the holes on the top of the tray. Below, nutrient solution can flow, providing nourishment to all the plants in the system. Courtesy of Pure Greens Container Farms

Water savings is one of the biggest benefits of growing crops inside a hydroponic container farm. While we’ve written about how growing with hydroponic methods can cut water usage, we haven’t described how water flows through the system, or explained the details of how hydroponics can achieve stellar water savings.

In this blog, Pure Green we’ll describe the journey that water takes through a hydroponic system like ours, from the second it enters the unit to the minute it exits.