Harry Duran

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1,087 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard 20 Apr

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Vertical Farming Podcast: CEOs & Founders in AgTech and CEA · 174: The Hidden Power of Steam in Indoor Farming with Soil Steam's Hans Kristian Westrum · 29 Aug 2025 podcast

Smart.

Yeah.

All these different markets that you didn't envision when you started So I'm curious when they came to you with the substrate issue, how much did you know about the world of indoor farming?

Yeah.

What was the biggest surprise or aha for you, like as you started to see, you know, going to Holland, obviously the pioneers in greenhouse technology, you know, and a lot of people in the indoor farming space, especially vertical farms, you know, are are learning a hard lesson that maybe we should pay attention to what the pioneers and greenhouses have been doing.

So what were you learning when you on those first visits?

That's so fascinating.

I mean, obviously coming into this when I started the show, this there's a lot that I was just learning from the conversations and just learning how this issue with substrates is now a challenge because you know, you just assume that if they're purchasing something that it's gonna be clean, that it's gonna be sanitized, but it what what you discovered and what I'm learning as well is that's not the case.

And I think doing it even before first use and

So you were at Driscoll's, which is obviously one of the biggest, if not the biggest, strawberry producer here.

It's interesting to see that they were having this challenges as well.

Yeah, but

Yeah.

And so you've done tests already 'cause I saw that you've got some posts on the site that you've shown how

You're encouraging farmers not to reuse the substrates because now with this technology, I think in the past there was probably a concern with all the pathogens.

And there's again, it's so interesting to learn, but the pathogens you mentioned there are Pythium and Fusarium.

Could you talk a little bit I'm sure it's a part of an education process for you too, but can you talk a little bit about the specific pathogens that, you know, people may not be aware of?

Well

I'm curious on the soil side, how do you find that balance?

Because there are nutrients or spores and you know, mycelium that's helpful for soil, right?

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