Our product is better than organic. The organic certification allows for a variety of chemicals to be used or added to the product. We use none of these.

We have a variety of pick-up locations for weekly pick-ups. Customers with active credit credentials two weeks ahead of pick-up days will have a bag labeled for them. If you are unable to pick-up on the designated day or time the bag will be donated to a local charity. If you wish to change your pickup location please change your preference online one week prior to your original pickup day.

Microgreens, the very young seedlings of vegetables and herbs, pack a flavorful punch! They're widely flavorful, fast-growing, and quite popular, especially with chefs for their vibrant taste and visual appeal . Used as a garnish or added to a salad or simple garnish for an entree they are a simple way to make the ordinary extraordinary. We grow a dozen or more varieties with all having very different taste and appearance.

Lifespring Urban Farms utilizes state-of-the-art hydroponic vertical growing techniques that are designed to be energy-efficient. Our indoor farms are optimized to minimize electricity consumption while maximizing productivity.

Subscribing to Lifespring Urban Farms' CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program is simple. You can sign up for a subscription on our website and receive regular deliveries of hyper-fresh, nutritious produce directly to your doorstep.

Yes, we would entertain offers to sell one or more. Our goal is to demonstrate how to implement urban farming in many communities. A sale would allow us to reuse our invested capital to develop farms in other communities.

We are demonstrating different approaches to urban farming. Florida has a higher population density so we decided to demonstrate how to integrate a farm with equivalent output of ten acres in a quarter acre footprint. Suitable outdoor farmland is scarce and very expensive. There are many vacant commercial buildings in Maine. We aim to demonstrate how shuttered retail spaces, small warehouses, and other vacant spaces can be effectively repurposed. Our 6,000-square-foot space has the equivalent capacity of approximately 50 acres of tillable land.

Both the container farms in Florida and the repurposed commercial space in Maine will consume approximately 1.7 gallons of water per "equivalent acre" of traditional outdoor farms. Depending on the climate this is roughly a 95% saving. Because our cultivation spaces are sealed we can capture, filter, and reuse all water not directly absorbed by the plants.

Over the past 7-9 years there have been several significant technological breakthroughs in LED lighting that reduced energy consumption of the lights and air conditioning by approximately 40 percent. The LED arrays produce much less radiant heat allowing the lights to be positioned much lower to the plant canopy. This saves much space and allows vertical growing. Historically vertical cultivation was impractical since the excessive heat from incandescent lights would progressively heat the spaces above it thus overheating the root zones of levels above. LED lights also enable spectral tuning. We can create the mix of various lighting spectrums that optimize plant health, nutrient production and yield. Our farms adjust the mix of red, blue, etc., spectrums that are optimal for each plant variety. Thus the leafy greens use light that looks vastly different than say herbs or vine crops. Love it or hate it, the cannabis industry was responsible for these game-changing methods and technologies.