Australia: This Clever Startup Has Bought Farming to the City
Johanna Griggs meets the people behind Sprout Stack, which grows high quality vegetables with minimum environmental impact inside shipping containers.
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Sprout Stack was founded by Francisco Caffarena and Michael Harder. They recognised that traditional farming (both in Australia and overseas) isn’t keeping up with the demands of modern society and that the vertical farming category was taking off elsewhere in the world, but not here.
Vertical Farming is better for both the consumer and the environment – something that’s particularly poignant in Australia where we might not be short on land, but we are short on water. Australia is a sunburnt country and we need to be especially mindful of how we use its precious water resources.
Michael has background in automation and electronics. He decided to turn to vertical farming because of a life changing run in with a step-down electricity transformer that caused him to re-evaluate how he used his expertise. Francisco came to Sprout Stack with background in agriculture and investing.
