A new indoor smart garden is coming from Rise Garden according to the virtual CES event. The Chicago-based company’s new countertop-sized garden is equipped with Amazon Alexa and includes an “industry-first microgreens add-on.”
Rise Garden, founded in 2019, designs hydroponic produce gardens so anyone can grow their own foods. They look to encourage “better nutrition and healthy outcomes” by assisting in the ability to grow personal food year-round as well as partnering with schools to “build nutrition education” within the classroom.
The company has created a gardening system capable of removing complicated processes and allowing users to have fun gardening while keeping up with busy lives and urban settings. Available systems use a modular Wi-Fi-connection platform that allows for expansion and the ability to grow a wider variety of foods.
The Personal Garden
Rise Garden’s new Personal Garden includes everything that the company’s prior gardens did, including, “state-of-the-art lights, proprietary water flow technology, and modularity” just in a smaller package. The personal Garden has space to grow four large plants, like tomatoes or peppers, eight medium-sized plants, like herbs or flowers, or 12 small plants, like beets or chives and even micro greens.
Unlike other at-home gardens, Rise Gardens “is the only modular, consumer hydroponic system allowing consumers to choose between 1, 2, or 3 levels of growing.” The option to grow multiple plant types simultaneously is unique as well. This enables gardeners to “grow greens, herbs, tomatoes, microgreens, vining crops and rooted veggies at the same time in the same system.”
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