Greenhouse Technician 1
On-site · Toronto
The technician is responsible for greenhouse maintenance, crop harvesting, and inventory management. They will also handle experiment maintenance and engineering tasks at pilot farms across the GTA.
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Lyrata Inc
Verified Job SourceCanadian agri-tech company commercializing SmartSoil, a 3D-printed patent-pending biodegradable and reusable grow-media
Toronto, Ontario
Biotechnology Research
1–10 people
About
Current indoor farming grow-media ("soil"), mainly rockwool, is incredibly energy intensive and polluting to produce and recycle making almost as polluting as cement, one of the world’s most carbon intensive materials [1]. Lyrata has created SmartSoil, a grow-media technology with better performance than grodan and is up to 65 times less carbon intensive to produce and recycle [1]. Lyrata has proven this technology by producing crops at scale at their own SmartSoil based farms in the GTA supplying the University of Toronto [2] and Michelin-Star Don Alfonso [3] since 2023. 1. https://youtu.be/SMt_TQqZwOU?si=P1xTgkI70ao7vSoS 2. https://x.com/UofTNews/status/1734619557644378424 3. https://news.engineering.utoronto.ca/with-new-installations-at-casa-loma-and-u-of-t-scarborough-lyrata-offers-fresh-solutions-for-sustainable-urban-farming/
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Greenhouse Technician
On-site · Toronto
The technician is responsible for greenhouse maintenance, crop harvesting, and inventory management. They will also handle experiment maintenance and engineering tasks at pilot farms across the GTA.