Consulting
Agricultural and hydroponic consulting that starts with the numbers
Future Farms SA has designed, built and handed over farms in the Karoo, the Northern Cape desert and on Johannesburg rooftops. We bring that build experience to your project before the first structure goes up.
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Feasibility studies
Before you spend on steel, we model the crop, the yield, the water, the labour and the market so you know whether the numbers work.
Farm design & layout
Full layouts for tunnels, greenhouses, nursery space, packhouse flow, irrigation and water storage.
System selection
NFT, drip, gravel or a hybrid — we specify the growing system that suits your crop, climate and skill level.
Crop programmes
Planting schedules, nutrient recipes, EC and pH targets and harvest cycles tailored to your market.
Existing farm audits
Underperforming farm? We diagnose the system, water, nutrition and management and give you a fix list.
Project management
We manage the build end to end, including third-party contractors, so you get one point of accountability.
Practical advice from people who build farms
A lot of hydroponic advice in South Africa comes from people who have never had to make a system work through a Highveld hailstorm or a Northern Cape summer. Our recommendations come out of farms that are running today — including the R&D facilities we operate ourselves in Ndabeni and Germiston, where we test lighting, nutrient and crop programmes before recommending them.
We will tell you honestly if a project does not stack up. That is usually cheaper for you than a tunnel that never pays for itself.
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