A grower checking rows of young lettuce under bright white growing lights

Grown in a mist, not in the dirt.

Sunny Greens Farm is designed around aeroponics: plants grown indoors, with their roots fed by a fine mist instead of soil. Here is how the farm is meant to work.

Concept image. Our facility is in the planning phase.

The roots hang in the air.

Aeroponics grows a plant in a fine mist of water and nutrients, with no soil at all. The roots are fed directly, in measured amounts, and nothing else reaches them.

How an aeroponic growing chamber works Light shines from above onto plants held in a tray. Their roots hang below the tray in a closed chamber, where a fine mist feeds them. Water the roots don't use is collected at the bottom and reused. 1 2 3 4 5
  1. Light. LED panels tuned to each crop, in place of the weather.
  2. Leaves. Clean, filtered air around every plant.
  3. Roots. They hang free inside a closed chamber, with no soil to carry anything over.
  4. Mist. A fine mist of water and plant nutrients feeds the roots directly.
  5. Water. What the roots don't take is designed to be collected and reused.

Is a plant grown indoors still natural?

It's a fair question. The seed is unaltered and the plant is what it was meant to be. The building has one job: keep out what doesn't belong, so the plant doesn't need protecting with chemicals.

  • Designed to grow all year, whatever the weather outside.
  • Designed to reuse the water the roots don't take.
  • Designed to keep pests out, so the plan is to use no pesticides at all.

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