This Rotating Farm Doesn't Need Any Soil, Lets You Grow Organic Food Inside Your Kitchen

While buying vegetables from a street vendor or a supermarket can be convenient, there is something truly amazing about growing your own food.

Sure, many of you would like to do this, but living in an urban city like Mumbai or Delhi, one can rarely get a space to create a garden at home. However, what if I told you that you could grow healthy and organic vegetables right on your kitchen table?

Bace's Rotofarm let's you do just that.

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Bace's Rotofarm is a hydroponic system that provides a unique space-saving method of growing your veggies right in your kitchen. To the uninitiated, hydroponic farming basically means growing food indoors in a controlled environment, without the use of conventional soil. Instead, the plants are placed in inert mediums like perlite, rockwool, peat moss etc. basically allowing the plant roots to be in direct contact with the nutrient solution, while getting constant flow of fresh oxygen.

Conventional hydroponic systems result in limited yield due to the space each hydroponic system takes. However, Rotoform has created a unique way of holding the plants in a circular farm bed, which when spread flat, goes 1.5 metres long. The unit is suspended in a stainless steel unit, with the bottom possessing inlets for adding nutrients as well as water. The water is only absorbed by the plants and not lost in evaporation or other kinds of wastage. The teaser video also reveals the addition of nutrients from a rather unique packet.

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The Rotofarm taken an hour to complete a round, and since the plants are always in motion, gravity doesn't impact their growth, thus growing two times faster than a conventional farm bed.

The LED light in the centre is responsible to simulate sunlight for the plants to grow healthily. It has four lighting zones that can be customised with respect to the plants in front of it. For example, the plant on the top right corner doesn't need bright light whereas the plant on the bottom left needs bright light, users can define the brightness settings accordingly. It also comes with a magnetic acrylic lid to not add too control the light from the Rotofarm in the living room.

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Rotofarm is expected to go on Kickstarter starting next month. There is no information for the pricing of Rotofarm as of now. Moreover, we also don't have information if they're selling a Bace-branded nutrients and if yes, the pricing for the same.

Yet, it is a fascinating concept that not only looks amazing but also helps people eat fresh organic food while cutting down carbon emission produced by mass farming, processing and delivery.