Lennart Bijl's Contact Details

Lennart Bijl's Company Details

Own Greens

Burgh-Haamstede, Zeeland, Netherlands • 4 Employees
Food Production

The way our food is being produced is not sustainable at all. The impact of pesticides and herbicides on our planet is huge and excessive use of water and fertilizer represents another well known threat. The rapid loss of biodiversity, the polluted soil and waterreservoirs and all the other effects made us realise the gigantic impact that agriculture has on our planet. These thoughts turned into action when Own Greens was founded. This start-up was founded upon a solid technological basis, since the technology that Vitro Plus uses to grow ferns could be applied to growing edible crops too. The 30 years of fern-growing experience and 6 years of research into the Own Greens product has led to where we are now. A working product that can change global food production drastically. The Own Greens grow-set enables consumers, restaurants and shops to grow their own greens when and wherever they want. People get transparency, since they will know exactly what happens to their food and how it grows. They also get an extremely sustainable system that cuts out transportation in the entire supply chain, that does not need pesticides and only just enough water and minerals. The combination of a special film, specially developed minerals, LED grow-light panels and individual water containers for the plants makes this solution so easy and clean. Thus, the film and seperate water containers prevent algae, bacteria and fungi from getting into your food.