MICRO: Turn unused space into a superfood super garden.

Grow microgreens hands off, with powerful LED lighting, active ventilation, and self-watering functionality in a smart, stackable design that fits into any space.

 

 

Imagine all the unused space you could be using to grow nutritious & tasty superfoods at home, on autopilot.

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The power of a self-contained environment

Creating the perfect environment.

An enclosed growing environment allows the micro to maintain a steady temperature and humidity level inside the growing chamber, which promotes healthy growth and minimizes the chances of fungi or mold growth, without the use of harsh chemicals.

Growing microgreens isn't always easy...

Micro solves problems

Your key to effortless hyper-local superfood.

Gone are the days of trying to sprout beans in a jar. Or paying ridiculously high $$ for the tiniest amount of microgreens at your local organic produce store.

It's time to take it into your own hands, but only kind of, because the micro handles the entire growing process for you, producing quality microgreens, every time. This means you won't be frantically googling why your greens are wilting and falling over.

No risk, all reward.

It doesn't get easier than this.
Meet dirt-free growing. Meet Seedpad.

Sustainable Seed Pads

These hemp fibre pads are prepared with perfectly placed seeds held in place by an organic, rice-based glue. Sourced from Alberta, Canada, these seedpads are the perfect choice for growing food. Once you run out, you can get more from our online store.

Why Hemp Fibre?

Hemp fibre is perfect for growing micro greens because of its ability to store water and create a breathable environment for plant roots. It’s also great at preventing mold and makes it easy to harvest your micro greens without making a mess.

Perfectly Placed Seeds.

Our hemp fibre pads are perfectly seeded before you get them. Why? If seeds aren’t placed evenly, you get clumping which can result in suffocated seeds that cause mold. With Micro’s easy-to-use hemp fibre pads, you’ll never have to worry about trying to get the most out of every harvest. You will always get the best yield!

Wanna use your own seeds? No problem.

While we don't blame you if you can't get your seeding as evenly as we can, it's fun to use your own seeds, especially if you already have a bunch laying around. We also offer empty seedpads, cut to the perfect size for your micro, all you have to do is add the seeds yourself and add water.

How does it work?
Like magic.

Set Up: What Set Up?

The Powerplate and Micro will magnetically snap together aligning the electical pins safely transmitting power safely. Each Powerplate is capable of powering upwards of 4 micros. Unsatisfied? Stack another Powerplate on top of your fourth micro and keep growing!

Questions?
contact us

Go ahead, forget about it for a week.

Water every day? No thanks. Micro's enclosed design reduces water evaporation so it can use the water you give it more efficiently, lasting up to a week (or possibly more) with just one filling of the water reservoir.

Micro keeps your micros' safe

Bugs, rodents, and other pests will have a hard time getting inside and destroying your precious microgreens. Made to opened only by a qualified human with fingers, the magnetic drawer keeps even the smartest fluffy companions out. 

Incredibly even growth with our custom LED matrix.

It's not just what LED's you use, it's how you use them.

We specifically designed the LED lighting pattern to provide super even lighting. Knowing how light works, how it bounces, how to shape it, and diffuse it is just as important in growing superfood as it is in high value cinema productions. This is generally something that our competitors forget about, they just slap on some LED's and call it a day. 

Testing, testing, testing, for maximum yield.

We've tested light pattern after light pattern, different spacings, diffusive and reflective materials and their curvatures to come up with the most even lighting we can get in a compact space. This ensures that all your microgreens will grow to a beautifully uniform height for maximum yield. 

 

 

What's up with the pink lights anyway?

There's a good reason you'll find pink lights in many indoor commercial farms, and Micro is no different. Using LED's that target the specific wavelengths of light where plants are the most efficient at their photosynthetic process allows us to be more effective with the lighting as well as use less power.  

 

 

 

 

The power of
MODULAR

The Powerplate system = endless possibilities.

All of our units themselves have no jacks, no holes you have to plug something into. Instead they magnetically snap together, securely transmitting power to each other.

All this is possible because of the Power plate which is the base of your stackable garden.
Each power plate can power up to 4 micros.

 

Only four micros per Power plate? What if I want a taller garden?!

Surprise! The powerplates are stackable too! Magnetically snap another one on top of your fourth micro, and just keep stacking. Just remember, if you need a ladder, it's probably getting too tall.

  

Grow your garden, however you want.

Sustainability down to the core.

Your contribution to less global waste doesn't just start at your first harvest. With our additive manufacturing process and high quality compostable bio-plastics, it begins the moment you invest in an agriolabs product.

 

What is additive manufacturing?

Additive manufacturing means just that! You add material when making something instead of taking away material like subtractive manufacturing.

The most commonly known form of additive manufacturing is 3D printing, which is used in some components of our products with a special high-quality, high-strength version of the bio-polymer called polylactic acid (PLA).

Empowering great design.

3D Printing allows to create designs that would otherwise be impossible to make without many more parts. air paths, ducts, water-reservoirs, and electrical harnesses can all be printed at once, in one piece, reducing the waste and energy use. 

How does it work?

Mimicking nature in a way, 3D Printing adds material layer by layer, until the finished product is done. It is inherently less than processes that take away material as no scrap is made except during tests and failed prints, the latter of which can be eliminated as soon as settings are dialed in.

Even waste from a test print can be ground up, and re-extruded into usable 3D printing Filament.

Challenges?

Time, 3D printing takes a long time compared to more traditional forms of additive manufacturing like injection molding. However, with our print farm growing, and constant advances in the technology, we're slowly creeping up on the speeds of traditional manufacturing processes.

We strive to have the best surface finish on all 3D printed parts, whether that means post-processing or working with our material supply partners to source innovative materials to further improve the visual and structural quality.

Quality Control, Fulfillment
& Delivery

Made in O' Canada

Any parts that aren't imported from places like the USA (such as some of the electrical components and raw materials) are manufactured in house in Alberta of good ol' O Canada.

No part left unchecked

While robots make the parts for the Micro, they're all fully assembled and checked by the real certified humans in our team, this means every single Micro, whether you get a starter pack or 3 stacks will be in working order.
Seriously, we're serious about quality.

Production already in progress

Will you get what you ordered? Duh, of course. What else are we going to do with all these MICROs we're making? Grow even more microgreens? Supply all our local grocery stores? End dependence on non-sustainable traditional agriculture? Okay well that's actually a good idea, but the point here is that we're already making the MICRO, it's not just an idea, its a reality, and we can't wait to make it your reality.

The bigger picture
Our Mission

Agriolabs was created to solve big problems through cool and novel technologies. We aren't afraid of tackling big problems, we're made for it. With the micro, and the next few home garden systems, our goal is to make it so easy to grow your own food at home that more an more people begin doing it, and therefore put less demand on produce grown less sustainably.

With your help, we get to continue that mission, and solve bigger, cooler problems like cleaning our oceans through natural re-vegetation of kelp forests, feed our astronauts on deep space journeys, create self sufficient communities with automated agriculture, and one day even feed a Mars colony.

Our COVID-19 Response

Speaking of tackling big problems, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic we launched Project:  Save Ears. We re-purposed our 3D printer farm to make ear savers for all our front-line and essential workers in Canada who were suffering from ear pain resulting in long term mask use. Working with the community, we were able to produce over 20,000(and counting) ear savers.

You can read all about it at the Project: Save Ears Blog Post

The humans behind
Agriolabs

Bragging isn't really our style, but we aren't lying when we say we've got the most amazing team ever. Agriolabs was made to tackle big problems by leveraging awesome technology and out of the box thinking. Everyone in the team is a natural problem solver in their own way and we all share the same mission to do good, sustainably.

Jonathan Mui

President, CEO, VP of Design

Eric Chaba

Secretary, CFO, VP of Product Engineering

Denise Bermejo

VP of Operations, Web Design & Development

William Kabrall

Lead Marketing Expert