Grow indoors, year-round, soil-free with SproutsIO, the smart microgarden that learns from you. The SproutsIO system utilizes high performance technology and machine learning software to grow Personal Produce™, fruits and vegetables cultivated to your taste according to settings you customize. Fresh produce is now available any time, any place through an automated and transparent growing process which requires a fraction of the resources required by traditional growing.

SproutsIO’s mission is to connect people to their food. By developing the world’s first-ever, revolutionary hybrid hydroculture technology, SproutsIO makes Personal Produce™ possible for everyone, everywhere with a fraction of the resources used by standard growing practices. The research behind SproutsIO began as co-founder and CEO Jennifer Broutin Farah’s thesis at the MIT Media Lab. After training as an architect, Jennifer focused on projects dealing with low-power energy harvesting, personal energy generation, and urban agriculture. In 2009 she created “Facade Farm” for the NYC Parks Department, a full-scale urban agriculture prototype designed to be integrated vertically in high-rise construction. During that process, she realized that while large-scale installations would provide food, they would not foster a relationship with food. This idea led her to the MIT Media Lab in 2011 where she introduced the study of urban agriculture and began to develop a personal-scale growing system. At the MIT Media Lab, Jennifer developed technologies related to growth media, sensors, automation, and networked infrastructure, all toward the goal of growing produce indoors. The proof of concept prototype for SproutsIO was the topic of her 2013 master's thesis. After being accepted into the PhD program at MIT, she decided to change course, leave academia, and launch SproutsIO Inc. alongside co-founder Kamal Farah.