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LettUs Grow Ltd.
About
The future of farming?
By 2050 we’ll have 2 billion more mouths to feed. This will need to be done with less farmland, degraded soil and in an unstable climate. Indoor farming offers a climate-resilient solution to grow fresh produce consistently and sustainably but until now it’s struggled to get off the ground…
What are you going to do about it?
LettUs Grow has developed innovative software and hardware solutions that combine efficient aeroponic technology with data collection, automation and operational insights for the indoor farming sector. These systems can grow fresh produce without soil, all-year-round and in any environment – from cities to deserts – with minimal impact on the planet.
Crops grown with our aeroponic systems can develop up to twice as fast than with hydroponics. This is based on comparing crop productivity in our own systems with yields made publicly available by directly comparable hydroponic systems.
Aeroponics also uses no soil or pesticides & uses up to 95% less water than outdoor farming.
Our core product DROP & GROW is essentially a farm-in-a-box. It’s a vertical farming system inside a 40ft container, where we’ve combined our powerful aeroponic technology & software platform Ostara to provide the leading aeroponic container farm on the market. DROP & GROW creates positive change in our food supply networks by empowering anyone to serve fresh salad, microgreens & herbs to their local area. An easy-to-use software platform, Ostara, provides data automation, optimisation and business planning tools to farmers, helping to maximise yields while minimising labour and resource use.
Is it suitable for me?
There are many applications for the technology including urban and traditional farms, food corporations and research centres. For example, LettUs Grow’s technology can be used to diversify traditional farms and provide a reliable, year-round income stream, no matter the weather.
Alternatively, farms could be located in the city centre to minimise food miles, keep food fresher for longer and reduce protective packaging. This would cut the carbon footprint of fresh produce while simultaneously slashing both food and packaging waste.
“We are providing technology that allows us to grow more with less impact on the soil so we don’t have to farm the soil in an industrial way.
We want to take pressure off the ecosystem so we can farm traditionally in a more sustainable way as well, not just driven by supermarket prices and overreaching targets.
We want to be able to provide a predictable, resilient supply of produce that means we don’t over-farm or overproduce, but allow sustainable farmers to work with the land.”
Charlie Guy, Co-founder and Managing Director of LettUs Grow
In the News
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LettUs Grow Hosts Exclusive Unveiling of New Aeroponic Innovation Centre in Bristol, UK
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CEA as a Technology Proving Ground with LettUs Grow
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LettUs Grow and Valoya India partner to bring advanced aeroponic technology to India/Middle East
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Lettus Grow: Ro-Gro Launches Pioneering Biofortified Microgreens
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Lettus Grow collaborates with Albotherm
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Industrial Horticulture is at a crossroads – new report urges expansion not decline
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Lettus Grow: Innovate UK backs collaborative project linking AI with automation & control to improve indoor farming sustainability
LettUs Grow reduces strawberry plant production period with aeroponics
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UK researchers use aeroponics to boost B12 in pea shoots
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FoodTech 500 – 2022 listing announced
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How can aeroponics increase productivity in greenhouses?
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Veganuary: can vertical farming help to provide alternative protein?
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LettUs Grow with sound – ultrasonic aeroponics increase growth rate
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LettUs Grow with sound – ultrasonic aeroponics increase growth rate
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FoodTech 500 2021 features companies from Agri-TechE ecosystem
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LettUs Grow partners with Octopus Energy to reduce energy costs for vertical farming
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Harper Adams and LettUs Grow partner to bring the benefits of vertical farming to greenhouses
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How Drop & Grow container farms offer chance to rethink urban food systems
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