Why are you most interested in growing at home?
Take our short quiz to find out:
How many nutrients are lost after produce has been harvested?
Take your best guess...
How much water is used to grow a head of lettuce?
30-50% of nutrients are gone before you eat them
Plants begin to lose nutrients as soon as they harvested. Most produce often is harvested weeks before arriving on a store shelf translating to a large amount of nutrient-loss including Vitamin C and B-carotene once the produce arrives in store.
Gardyn harvest is minutes from your plate to give you the freshest , most nutritious food possible.
Answer: A lot!
A single head of lettuce can take as much as 3-5 gallons of water! This is a lot, in particular given that 40% of the produce grown is wasted in the supply chain and will never reach the shelf.
Gardyn uses more than 95% less water with 0 waste.
Does washing your veggies remove all the pesticides?
It has to, right??
No, it doesn't
Washing the outside of fruit and vegetables doesn't remove the pesticides that have grown into the plant through soil and water.
Research shows that 50% of lettuces and spinach in grocery stores show traces of neonic pesticides, which are neurotoxic agents that attack the nervous system.
That’s one of the key reasons we developed Gardyn: It's the best way to gain control over your food and be sure it is not loaded with chemicals. You don’t even need to wash your Gardyn produce! It's pure food.
One Billion Tons of CO2
Transportation associated with fruits and vegetables added up to around 36 percent of the total food-miles emissions (or over 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent), nearly doubling the amount of greenhouse gas emissions from their production.
Emissions for fruits and vegetables are largely due to carbon-intensive refrigeration to keep produce looking as ripe and plump as possible.
Are you missing out on produce that's not available in stores?
Like, there's stuff not in stores?
How much food is wasted every year in the US?
Yes, you're missing out
What's available for purchase in a grocery store is produce that's able to survive being harvested weeks ago.
Today, there are incredible flavors, vegetables, plants and fruits that are too delicate to survive our modern supply chain—plants like Tatsoi and Purple Kohlrabi that can be grown with Gardyn and are delicious and packed with nutrients.
Answer: 31% or $1,800
Yikes that’s a lot of food! And food waste isn’t just a loss from your wallet- but the loss of the myriad of resources that went into producing it- Water, fertilizer, transportation energy, refrigeration energy, plastic packaging, labor, etc. And the end game of food waste is just as bad- the breakdown of food waste in landfills is a leading source of methane- a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming.
So what's the answer?
Is there a way to get more nutrition from fruits, vegetables and herbs without pesticides and chemicals? And can it be fresh, with all the nutrients intact?
So what's the answer?
Is there a way to grow delicious fruits, veggies, and herbs at home, using 95% less water, emitting less CO2 and stop wasting fresh food?