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Lanai’s hydroponic greenhouse farm ready for commercial harvest

By Dennis Oda

Jan. 4, 2020

Maui

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Video by Dennis Oda / doda@staradvertiser.com
Technology billionaire Larry Ellison developed a pioneering hydroponic greenhouse farm on Lanai. Some vegetables are ready for the first commercial harvest to initially serve Lanai.
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At Sensei Farms Lanai, they are growing different types of crops to see what grows best in their aquaponics environment.
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En Young, general manager of Sensei Farms Lanai, is surrounded by different types of crops the farm is trying to grow.
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En Young, general manager of Sensei Farms Lanai, slices some of the cucumbers and tomatoes that is grown in the farm's growing structures.
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En Young, general manager of Sensei Farms Lanai, and Molly Stanek, shows off tomatoes growing on a vertical trellis. By growing the tomatoes vertically, it maximizes the use of space by keeping the vines off the ground which minimizes foot traffic contamination, reduces diseases and ensures the plants are exposed to good amounts of sunlight and circulation.
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Molly Stanek, senior vice president of Sensei Farms Lanai, lifts up a plastic covering that fits over the water troughs to show the lettuces' root systems that grow in a nutrient rich water that is circulated throughout the closed system.
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Molly Stanek, senior vice president of Sensei Farms Lanai, lifts up a plastic covering that fits over the water troughs to show the lettuces' root systems that grow in a nutrient rich water that is circulated throughout the closed system.
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Pictured it eh upper row of the growing structures at Sensei Farms.
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Jezel Antioquia, operations associate, Gantt Charping, operations manager, and Jon Dillehay, a grower, look after a row of snack cucumbers that are growing vertically on a trellis.
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Jon Dillehay inspects a row of snack cucumbers that are growing vertically on a trellis.
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En Young, general manager of Sensei Farms Lanai, gives a tour of the new aquaponics farm they are building. Pictured is the loading dock to their cold storage facility.
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