Homefarm
Homefarm is a smart crop growing appliance for the home. Grow the healthiest foods on the planet, all year round, from the comfort of your home.
This page follows Homefarms journey to change the way people eat and grow their own food. Homefarm is a revolutionary new home appliance being developed for urban households in South Africa and beyond. It utilizes the latest in hydroponic technology to intelligently grow the freshest, healthiest and most fragrant herbs 365 days a year. Homefarm creates and controls an optimized microclimate for th
The Homefarm Nano is your friendly indoor food garden. It is a fully automated indoor food garden. It looks beautiful in any living space in your home including kitchen, lounge, dining room or study.
Here we have a Nano set up in the study of one of our customers.
Check out our latest story and reel for an EXCLUSIVE BEHIND THE SCENES look at our production of the Homefarm Commercial System. The craftsmanship and ingenuity of the manufacturing process is something to behold. Enjoy ๐
Enjoy these beautiful plates of art, all using herbs and microgreens grown with a Homefarm Nano system by one of our customers.
Our Homefarm System at EY, Joburg. Supplying a consistent, premium quality yield to the client all year round. Perfectly managed by our system and services. Easy, convenient and beautiful.
Meet Indi. He works with us in managing our Homefarm system at Makers Landing at the V&A Waterfront. He is a recruit of and his project. We have been supported by and worked with Ian and his team for a good 6 months now and the it's been a wonderful example of an ecosystem of shared value and opportunity. Indi Will soon begin doing bi-weekly deliveries of microgreens to business located within the V&A precinct.
Spot the Homefarm.
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Mixologists + Microgreens create innovative flavour sensations for cocktails. Imagine having a cocktail made for you with fresh ingredients being harvested in front of you and added to your drink? Coming to a cocktail bar near you.
Homefarm in the classroom. Nutritious food grown for the students and staff, by the students and staff.
It's an opportunity to learn first hand what it takes to grow and care for food. Lessons can cut across the life sciences and stem curriculums.
Sitting pretty in a cafe near you. Homefarm is expanding. We are currently rolling out these Commercial Homefarm systems to two new sites every month. We hope to have this up to 3 new sites every month soon... And who knows, maybe you'll see a Homefarm Commercial System in your favorite restaurant, cafe, or venue soon! If you know of a business that could benefit from a Homefarm, let them/us know!
Our latest installation at Sanlam head offices in Sandton, Johannesburg with their kitchen team.
They're quite taken aback by how quickly the crops grow, and want to know what kind of 'muthi'* we use ๐คฃ.
For those non South Africans 'muthi' is a term to define traditional medicines, sometimes associated to the 'dark arts'.
A tray of crops grown on one of our Commercial Systems. These Homefarm grown crops are catching some natural sunlight while we keep them at one of our team's home, prior to them being delivered to a client's system.
The varieties here include Basil, Purple Basil, Pak Choi and recently germinated Parsley. They are grown in small pots which can be individually planted, placed and removed on our Commercial Systems which have a capacity of 120 of these pots.
Some more pics of our new 4-level Commercial 'S' system. We've got 2 of these cutting edge systems shipping to clients in Cape Town this week.
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Our Homefarm Commercial 'S' system now has 4 grow levels with only 8cm additional height but 25% more yield delivery per month!
We are obsessed with delivering maximum value to our clients and are excited about this improvement and what it means for our future customers.
Homefarm is very excited to announce that we have been selected, alongside 5 other startups, in the hardware technology space in South Africa to participate in Savant's intensive, investment readiness programme; Build2024 (Co-backed by the USAID investment fund for Soutern Africa).
The programme is geared to assist and prepare businesses for institutional funding and international growth by assisting with:
-Gap Analysis and closure
-Due Diligence and Dataroom preparedness
-High impact growth strategies, including international market exploration
-Fund raising, including grant funding
We are looking forward to the next phase in our growth journey, working closely with SAVANT and USAID.
One of our systems at Makers Landing doing a marvelous job of supplying some of the local food businesses located on site
We've got some exciting product development updates on our Commercial Systems. We will be announcing these soon and going into the details on the vast range of product improvements we've made.
Always to ensure the best possible growing experience, maximum yields and Return on Investment for our customers and clients.
It's a new era for home/business grown food.
We love hearing from our customers and their adventures with Homefarm.
๐จโ๐พ Hey Homefarmers! For those of us in the southern hemisphere we're definitely starting to get that autumn feeling ๐๐
With that we need to start getting our immune systems into tip top shape.
Fresh Microgreens are proven to be one of the easiest and most efficient ways of packing our bodies with all the vitamins and nutrients they need to fight off nasty the bugs which come out in winter.
As such we wanted to share some of these delicious smoothie recipes with you. All of these use microgreens available with Homefarm.
One of Homefarms on-site client operators admiring their daily crops. Here we have an Appliance system catering to a small Cafe in Johannesburg.
At its core, Homefarm is rooted in deep research and development. Here is Michael doing adaptations to one of Homefarm's proprietary flood tray pattern designs. The developments under way will dramatically improve the performance of Homefarm systems.
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A stunning plate of creamy salmon pasta with baby asparagus, capers and homefarm radish microgreens. Prepared and enjoyed by homefarm customer
A burst of Red Amaranth grown in a Homefarm by .clare
We ๐ microgreens. This is the current library of crops we offer. We just can't get enough of the variety im colour, form and flavour that microgreens offer.
All of these images are of actual harvested Homefarm crops. Perfectly fresh every time.
New Homefarm commercial site. PWC Johannesburg head offices. ๐ฑ๐ฅฌ๐ช๐
Schools and universities are back into the full swing of 2024, finally! ๐.
Homefarms have been shown to be excellent tools in classrooms for providing hands-on, practical lessons on topics such as biology, science, food security, nutrition and technology.
What's more, you don't need to be in a school to learn from a Homefarm. Parents and children alike can enjoy the thrill of learning about all things plants and food by using a Homefarm at home.
The Homefarm Nano. This is no 'garden-variety' food farm. It's a compact, high yield countertop food garden made for the busy professional and family.
๐ฑFully automated lighting and watering cycles
๐ฑGrow your favorite leafy crops all year round
๐ฑHeighten your meals with the incredible flavours of fresh herbs and microgreens
๐ฑEnjoy eating some of the healthiest foods on the planet.
๐ฑSay goodbye to wasting leafy produce and using single use plastics from store store bought foods.
Get to know your micro crops.
Harvesting a tray of peas and then enjoying them in a classic dish of Bangers and Mash with peas. Nothing elevates a plate or heightens ones experience of the meal than a carefully selected microgreen as an ingredient and garnish.
It's harvest day at another one of our corporate client sites. This time at the Empact Group. Their small canteen is enjoying a fresh daily supply of microgreens.
Our Story
Homefarm is a revolutionary new home appliance which has been developed for urban households in South Africa. It utilizes the latest in hydroponic technology to intelligently grow the freshest, healthiest and most delicious microgreens and microherbs.
Homefarm began as a vision in 2014 to develop a home appliance which would inspire and empower urban dwellers to eat the healthiest of foods every day, grown in their own homes.
Fast forward to today and Homefarm is now the most advanced and easiest to use crop growing appliance available in South Africa. The Homefarm appliance is now available for pre-order from the Homefarm website www.myhomefarm.io
We welcome you to the Homefarm community of urban home-farmers.
Michael, CEO and co-founder of Homefarm