Meaplant Innovation is the only system designed to allow everyone, everywhere, to cultivate a real vegetable garden through an extremely simple cultivation process. Users only need to periodically add water and mineral salts into the tank and activate the irrigation timer, without complex monitoring or continuous maintenance during plant growth.
Meaplant Innovation can also represent an important solution for improving food security in arid regions, areas affected by water scarcity, and densely populated metropolitan environments vulnerable during emergency situations.
Many natural phenomena involve suspended water droplets: dew forming on spider webs, the capture of droplets on cactus spines, or the movement of droplets along plant fibres. These mechanisms have been studied for technological applications ranging from medical microfluidics to fog-harvesting systems used in desert regions.
Meaplant Innovation is the first cultivation system to apply these physical principles in order to make soilless cultivation simpler, more efficient, and accessible to everyone.
Our cultivation substrate is composed of a network of hydrophobic and chemically inert materials. Water and mineral solution droplets supplied through the irrigation system remain suspended on the mesh thanks to the balance between surface tension and gravity.
The videos below demonstrate how droplets supplied by the irrigation system are captured within a mesh of interwoven threads, just as they are inside the Meaplant Innovation substrate. As droplets increase in mass, equilibrium is lost and the solution naturally precipitates back into the tank.
