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HOMEFARM

BRINGS

FARMING

INDOORS

Grow healthy, pesticide-free

leafy greens all year round

L aunched in 2017, Homefarm was established to of arable, outdoor land, and it can enable farming to be

bring small-scale indoor farming to mainstream
done all year round, without interruption or the need for
consumers and commercial markets, through
pesticides.”
the development and dissemination of rapidly
deployable, fully automated food farming systems. It has been eight years since this unique idea was first
conceived. Business registration followed, and then
It stems from a simple idea. No more popping into the shops marketing. Today Homefarm offers a variety of products,
to buy salad greens, herbs and microgreens. Instead, you each with its own yield capacity and customer in mind.
simply open the door of your Homefarm unit (similar in size
to a microwave oven), trim off leaves from your homegrown, The Homefarm Appliance is suitable for domestic kitchens
pesticide-free leafy greens, chop them up and serve. And it’s and is a fully automated indoor garden capable of growing
healthier and more environmentally friendly! organic, pesticide-free, leafy produce all year round. With
a 1kg yield per month, Homefarm is the first product of its
When he founded Homefarm, Michael Currin believed kind able to grow enough produce to cater to its user’s need
there was an opportunity to offer easy-to-use and visually for fresh leafy greens. You can look forward to a continuous
attractive indoor farming systems for home use to the supply of herbs daily, or 20 lettuce heads or 24 trays of
consumer market. Initially addressing the needs of urban microgreens per month. Prices for this unit start at R8 499.
households with the Homefarm Appliance, the business has
expanded its reach and product range by offering indoor The Homefarm Commercial System is a compact, fully
farming systems to consumers in peri-urban environments automated indoor farm that can grow a wide variety of up
and to businesses via the Homefarm Commercial Unit. to 48 edible crop plants at a time. The Commercial Systems
are vertical farms and take up as little as one square metre
GREAT IDEAS of floor space. They enable businesses, ranging from
“The idea came to me when I was studying for my Masters of restaurants, lodges and corporate cafeterias to food retailers,
Design in the UK in 2014. I was researching ways to provide to offer their customers the freshest produce possible, whilst
more people with access to highly nutritious and healthy saving on food miles, packaging and refrigeration. While the
foods and to enable more people to grow it themselves small unit has a yield of 5kg per month, the large unit can
and become more self-sustainable,” says Currin. “The idea yield up to 15kg. This system is available to purchase or rent.
of Homefarm was born, but the business only got going
in 2018. It was found that indoor farming was an efficient The Homefarm Nano is the latest garden to join the
way to grow more of the foods we eat closer to where we Homefarm family, putting fully automated indoor farming
consume them. Indoor farming can be done despite lack at your fingertips for only R3 899. It has been designed for

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