Rory Gardiner
Ikea is known for its flat-pack kitchen tables, islands, and cabinets.
Now the home furnishings retailer is experimenting with products that allow people to harvest food at home.
Space10, Ikea’s innovation lab, has designed a prototype of a mini-farm that can grow greens and herbs indoors.
Called Lokal, it uses a hydroponic farming system — allowing crops to grow on trays under LEDs in a climate-controlled box. Space10 debuted the device in September at the London Design Festival in Shoreditch.
Check it out below.
The Lokal farm lets anyone harvest greens indoors.
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Crops grow under LEDs instead of relying on natural sunlight.
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This process allows the greens to grow approximately three times quicker than in an outdoor garden.
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