The hangar is a fundamental part of Vineland’s infrastructure that enables our unique ability to rapidly design, fabricate, and test prototype technologies. As our workshop and lab space, the hangar is home to a number of robotics, vision, and sensor assets as well as fabrication facilities for 3D printing, metal, and electronics. We also have dedicated benchtop setups for calibrating and commissioning various vision sensors capturing data in colour, 3D, and multispectral bands, as well as testing robotic manipulator systems in controlled settings.

Vineland’s Soil and Substrate Laboratory brings over a decade of expertise across orchards, greenhouses, roadsides, and green roofs. Specializing in growing media quality and soil health, the lab is among the few in Canada equipped to analyze water movement and root zone availability using advanced tools like the KSat Meter, Hyprop2, and WP4C Dewpoint. Its Soil Health Reports provide actionable insights, hydrological, chemical, physical, and biological, to help clients improve soil vitality and performance.

Vineland’s TreeCulture Research Park is a pioneering facility—the first in Canada—advancing urban forestry through large-scale, semi-controlled experiments. Covering 1.75 acres, it features 36 modular compartments (4.5 x 4.5 m, 1 m deep) with custom soil blends and independent drainage. Each unit is fitted with advanced sensors tracking temperature, moisture, pH, oxygen, and water availability. Post-trial, soil and roots are analyzed to understand tree-soil interactions. The park is expanding to 80 compartments to boost research capacity.

Vineland’s Victoria Avenue Research Farm is where innovation meets the field. Our farm provides the ideal environment to grow and study a wide variety of crops, helping researchers uncover better ways to care for plants, improve yields, and support the horticulture industry. It’s a place where science and real-world growing come together to create practical solutions for growers and communities.

The Consumer Sensory lab is a controlled environment designed for evaluating human senses such as taste, smell, touch, sight, and hearing. We have 10 individual booths equipped with lighting, double hatch doors, and their individual computers. At Vineland, we routinely leverage this capacity to develop lexicons (definitions for how to describe a product) and apply those to understanding the drivers of consumer liking in produce and food packaging.

The Food Technology Lab is a food-grade facility designed for preparing and analyzing food products and ingredients for evaluation by trained sensory panels or consumers. The space features stainless steel countertops and a wide range of kitchen- and lab-scale equipment. Food preparation equipment includes a commercial convection oven, fluidized bed dryer, vacuum oven, ultra centrifugal mill, and standard kitchen tools such as blenders, induction burners, juicers, and vegetable choppers. For analysis, the lab is equipped with instruments including a texture analyzer, water activity meter, and refractometer (for Brix measurement).