You can also source such greens through CSA-like memberships such as Willo.īut it’s only been in the past few years that these massive farms have become available to the general public on a smaller scale. Today, companies such as Gotham Greens, Bowery Farming, AeroFarms, Forward Greens and Upward Farms use some type of indoor vertical technology-based farm to grow produce that appears on supermarket shelves. They were seeking to answer one of the world’s biggest problems: how to feed a growing worldwide population, especially with more people centered around cities, and how to produce that food more efficiently and sustainably. The idea of vertical indoor farms was popularized by Columbia University professor and microbiologist Dickson Despommier and his students in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Indoor smart gardens have operated on a large scale for decades. Some, like Rolle, are using intelligent indoor gardens, like Gardyn, Lettuce Grow or Click and Grow, among other systems to grow food in living rooms, kitchens and even tiny studio apartments. But not all of those people are growing food outdoors.
Sixteen million people picked up gardening during the pandemic, and according to the National Gardening Association, 67 percent were either growing or planning to grow vegetables, herbs and fruits in 2021. “Gardyn allows you to pick a fresh salad whenever you’re ready,” says Rolle, who started using the device in June. Then she discovered Gardyn, a smart indoor hydroponic garden that allows home gardeners to grow up to 30 kinds of vegetables and salad greens inside year-round. The busy doctor loved salads, but she hadn’t had any luck growing lettuce or other salad components in her outdoor container garden, and because of her schedule, she never ended up using all of the greens she bought before they went bad.
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