Greenhouse and horticulture system

An automated horticulture crop growing system, comprising:

• a growing tray preparation station wherein a plurality of growing trays are pre-treated, filled with a growing bed and planted;
• and
• a growing tray displacing system for transferring planted growing trays from the growing tray preparation station to a horticulture crop growing facility;
• wherein:
• the horticulture crop growing facility comprises a closed structure with a controlled environment treating system, one or more growing tray inlet/outlet ports, and one or more horticulture crop growing modules;
• said horticulture crop growing module comprises:
• a plurality of parallelly disposed single-rowed growing towers, each of said plurality of parallelly disposed single-rowed growing towers configured to receive vertically supported growing trays and to vertically move said growing trays along and within said single-rowed growing tower for transferring them between tray locations therewithin;
• and
• a growing tray manipulation system comprising one or both of a top tray conveying system for loading or unloading growing trays from a top end of each growing tower, and a bottom tray conveying system for loading or unloading growing trays from a bottom end of each growing tower;
• and
• said growing tray manipulation system is configured for:
• receiving from said growing tray displacing system planted growing trays via the growing tray inlet/outlet port and loading them to allocated growing towers of said horticulture crop growing module;
• displacing the growing trays between the allocated growing towers to treating stations within the horticulture crop growing module;
• and
• unloading the growing trays by displacing them out of said horticulture crop growing facility through the growing tray inlet/outlet port.

A horticulture crop growing facility comprising:

• a closed structure with a controlled environment treating system and having one or more growing tray inlet/outlet ports, and one or more horticulture crop growing modules;
• and
• each horticulture crop growing module comprising:
• a plurality of parallelly disposed single-rowed growing towers, each of said plurality of single-rowed growing towers configured to receive an array of vertically supported growing trays and to vertically move said growing trays along said single-rowed growing tower;
• and
• a growing tray manipulation system comprising one or both of a top tray conveying system and a bottom tray conveying system, said growing tray manipulation system configured for receiving planted growing trays via the growing tray inlet/outlet port and loading them to allocated growing towers of said horticulture crop growing module, displacing the growing trays through treating stations within the horticulture crop growing module, and for displacing the growing trays out of said horticulture crop growing facility through the growing tray inlet/outlet port.