We build growing hardware to furniture standards
Verdara was founded in 2021 by a furniture designer and a plant physiologist, with studios in Shanghai and Copenhagen.
Keep growing indoors
The first question was narrow: why do supermarket herbs die within three weeks? We took apart twenty growing kits and kept finding the same structural faults — a reservoir too shallow, light too close to the leaf, substrate compacted within two months.
So we worked backwards: define the light and root volume a plant needs, then ask joinery and hardware to fit it. The first prototype ran for fourteen months on a kitchen worktop through the winter of 2021, with two substrate changes.
Today Verdara systems are in 12,400 homes, 46 restaurant kitchens and 120 classrooms. We still design our own structural parts, still test every light recipe ourselves, and still do one thing: make indoor growing require no special talent.
Four commitments
Traceable material
FSC-certified ash, food-grade hard wax oil, no lacquer sealing.
Repairable structure
Light bars, pumps and hardware sold separately, replaceable for ten years.
Verified recipes
Each light recipe runs a full season in our own grow cabin before release.
Honest scope
If a space does not suit the system, we say so rather than overselling modules.
Timeline
- 2021
First prototype
Fourteen months of continuous growing on a 32 m² Shanghai kitchen.
- 2022
Kōki counter series
First production model; 1,200 households in the first year.
- 2023
Wall system and commercial planting
Herb supply workflows built with twelve restaurants.
- 2024
Classroom rack
A one-term food education pack developed with three schools.
- 2026
Substrate return programme
Used substrate collected, composted, returned to community gardens.
In the studio
Structural parts are prototyped in our own workshop; light recipes are measured in the grow cabin. We do not ship concept renders — only units that have grown for two years.
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Tell us about your space
Send dimensions and use, and we will reply with module count, planting chart and budget.