“Revolutionizing Education: Vertical Farming Comes to K-12 with Babylon Micro-Farms”
In an e-mail exchange, Babylon Micro-Farms CEO Alexander Olesson tells me “we’ll have these in every school and apartment one day.” It’s a nice vision, and really the level of belief/commitment required to run a startup – particularly in a field as oft-fraught at vertical farming.
With a price point of $6,500, howver, the STEM Garden isn’t likely arriving in too many homes in the near term.
Virginia-based Babylon Micro-farms has long distinguished itself from much of the vertical farming world with its focus on smaller spaces and the new system further shrinks that footprint.
Where previous models were focused on higher ed, the STEM Garden is specifically tackling K-9, which tends not to have as deep pockets.
The STEM garden is up for pre-order starting today and will start shipping to classes in Q2.
