Today’s episode continues our new special series “What Plants Crave from Technology.” In this new series, Dr. Sabeh will be interviewing equipment suppliers, manufacturers, and developers about the unique technological needs for growing crops indoors and greenhouses. We are continuing our conversation with last week’s guest Dan Dettmers, Application Engineer with Quest Climate. Dan Dettmers joined Quest 4 years ago with a 20+ year background in food/pharma processing, industrial refrigeration and HVAC infrastructure design. For 15 of those years Dan moonlighted at his own hop farm, the other m ..read more

Today’s episode continues our new special series “What Plants Crave from Technology.” In this new series, Dr. Sabeh will be interviewing equipment suppliers, manufacturers, and developers about the unique technological needs for growing crops indoors and greenhouses. To help launch this new series, Dr. Sabeh invited friend and colleague Chris Higgins, President and co-founder of Hort Americas, to talk CEA tech, the needs, the challenges, and the evolution over the past 20 or so years. Many in the industry know or have seen Chris at events and conferences, where he’s often moderating a panel, s ..read more

Today’s podcast kicks off 2023 and introduces our new special series “What Plants Crave from Technology.” In this new series, Dr. Sabeh will be interviewing equipment suppliers, manufacturers, and developers about the unique technological needs for growing crops indoors and greenhouses. To help launch this new series, Dr. Sabeh invited friend and colleague Chris Higgins, President and co-founder of Hort Americas, to talk CEA tech, the needs, the challenges, and the evolution over the past 20 or so years. Many in the industry know or have seen Chris at events and conferences, where he’s often m ..read more

This episode is special! It’s the second part of our “What Plants Crave” series, where Dr. Sabeh speaks with growers, researchers, and other experts in other engineers, growers, and manufacturers who work in controlled environment agriculture, to get their insights about the direction of the industry, and of course, what exactly it is that plants crave. This week’s episode features Chris Chapdelaine and Andrew Alfred of Pharmacann. Chris is Director of Control Systems and Andrew is Director of Cultivation Research and Development. This interview is our 50th episode, and it was important to us ..read more

This episode is special! It’s a part of our “What Plants Crave” series, where Dr. Sabeh speaks with growers, researchers, and other experts in other engineers, growers, and manufacturers who work in controlled environment agriculture, to get their insights about the direction of the industry, and of course, what exactly it is that plants crave. This week’s episode features Chris Chapdelaine and Andrew Alfred of Pharmacann. Chris is Director of Control Systems and Andrew is Director of Cultivation Research and Development. This interview is our 50th episode, and it was important to us to sit do ..read more

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Dr. Nadia (A.K.A. “Dr. Greenhouse”) is President and Founder of Dr. Greenhouse, Inc., an agricultural and mechanical engineering firm that specializes in the design of HVAC systems for indoor plant environments. This series of podcasts she hosts invites listeners to sit in on informative, fun conversations Dr. Sabeh has with industry professionals working in environmental sciences, agriculture, and cannabis. The first series covers the impact of COVID-19 on different industries in different parts of North America. John Chandler is a cultivation consultant with over 10 years of designing and ma ..read more

Dr. Nadia (A.K.A. “Dr. Greenhouse”) is President and Founder of Dr. Greenhouse, Inc., an agricultural and mechanical engineering firm that specializes in the design of HVAC systems for indoor plant environments. This series of podcasts she hosts invites listeners to sit in on informative, fun conversations Dr. Sabeh has with industry professionals working in environmental sciences, agriculture, and cannabis. The first series covers the impact of COVID-19 on different industries in different parts of North America. Dr. Mark Lefsrud is an Associate Professor at McGill University and leads the Bi ..read more

This episode is part of our “What Plants Crave” series, where Dr. Sabeh speaks with growers, researchers, and other experts in other engineers, growers, and manufacturers who work in controlled environment agriculture, to get their insights about the direction of the industry, and of course, what exactly it is that plants crave. This week’s episode features Jesce Horton, CEO of Lowd Premium Cannabis. Jesce founded LOWD after experiencing successes in medical cannabis cultivation, where he began growing medical cannabis in his home for two elderly patients who were suffering with cancer, pain a ..read more