CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT AGRICULTURE
ACTS Freedom Farms of America offers an excellent opportunity for veterans to use their unique skills, discipline, teamwork, passion, and sense of service
Veterans possess the unique skills and character needed to create strong agricultural communities, and food production offers purpose, opportunity, and physical and psychological benefits to those veterans. Conversely, hundreds of veterans with no agriculture background who, upon returning from service, see opportunity in farming and decide to embark on a new career path in agriculture. Farming and growing techniques embrace advanced Controlled Environment Agriculture technologies that not only save energy, but also maximize the use of land while significantly improving quality and productivity.
ACTS Freedom Farms of America offers an excellent opportunity for veterans to use their unique skills, discipline, teamwork, passion, and sense of service to positively influence their resident micro-farm community while creating a successful live-work environment for themselves and their families.
CROP MANAGEMENT
ACTS Freedom Farms of America understands that the main principles of sustainable farming is crop and land management. Crop management includes general guides on disease, weed, pest, and nutrient & soil management information. Controlled environment agriculture, and specifically vertical hydroponics implemented by ACTS Freedom Farms of America makes the most of all available space and provides easier methods for well-managed growing media.
Well-managed growing media optimizes conditions for crop growth, and maintains appropriate nutrient and organic matter levels that together provide consistent and sustainable growing and productive crops. Using such techniques, ACTS Freedom Farms of America fresh produce is available year-round for local and regional consumption while avoiding many of the problems inherent in growing food crops in drought-and-disease-prone fields.
ACTS Freedom Farms of America controlled environment agriculture focuses on crops with fast turns and/or short growing periods, such as leafy greens, herbs, and others that are never being more than six weeks from harvest.
Greens also have consistent demand and typically bring good revenue. Other crops may include; beans, cucumbers, melons, peas, squash, tomatoes, and various types of berries. Root and tuber crops such as carrots, radishes, onions, etc. may be grown at lower tiers in vertical growing systems, thus utilizing space above the soil to allow for additional plants to be placed at the higher tiers.
