Our technology

Mistponics + Polyculture + NACAR

Three things, working together. Each exists elsewhere in some form; the combination is ours, and it is what makes it possible to grow a wide variety of specialty produce, at small scale, in climates where that produce normally has to be flown in.

See what it grows

A basil plant held up with its whole white root ball intact

Mistponics

Roots in mist, not in water or soil

A stainless nozzle fogs the root zone at 10–60 microns. Roots sit in air, take up exactly what they are given, and never stand in water — which is why the same tower grows a delicate herb and a fruiting crop, and why the system uses about 5 litres per plant instead of 100–150 in soil.

See the Grow-POD tower

Artist impression: one growing hall with Grow-POD towers, hydroponic tables and misting under an arched film roof — Many crops, one system — artist impression. An artist's impression of a system we build — not a photograph of this installation.

Polyculture

50+ crops in one system, at the same time

Conventional vertical farming grows one crop in one channel, because one crop is easier to control. We combine the growing method each crop prefers — mist, hydroponic, aeroponic with substrate — inside a single ecosystem, with a nursery in front and a harvest plan behind it. That is what lets a small footprint carry a whole specialty list rather than a pallet of lettuce.

How polyculture works

NACAR

The nutrition that makes the mix possible

Crops with different appetites cannot share one nutrient line on N-P-K alone. NACAR is our own natural full-spectrum biostimulant — minerals, trace elements and amino acids plants recognise — so a basil and a pepper can drink from the same system and both taste like they should. Grown without pesticides.

Inside NACAR

Watch it grow

From empty towers to the chef's board, in one minute.

Planting, growth and harvest in one Urban Ponics greenhouse, then straight to the kitchen.

Why it matters

No one else sells polyculture systems. No one else uses NACAR.

Which is why this is not a hydroponics installation with a different logo on it.

What the combination gives you

Special produce, grown where it is eaten

A wide variety, not a monoculture

Herbs, leaves, edible flowers, Asian greens, microgreens and fruiting crops from one installation.

At small scale

A tower behind a bar, a rooftop greenhouse, a greenhouse by the kitchen — sized to the property, not to a distribution centre.

In difficult climates

Desert heat, island humidity, northern winters. 11 countries and 5 continents so far.

Without the import chain

The produce that is expensive, hard to source or never arrives fresh is the produce this grows best.

Tending a Grow-POD wall inside a greenhouse

Designed for the site

The same technology, shaped to the climate

A greenhouse in 50 °C desert heat and one on the Irish Atlantic coast are not the same building. These are two we have built — a shaded house in Dubai and an earth-sheltered walipini in Ireland. The structure changes completely with the site; the growing system inside it does not.