Babylon partners with GROWFOAM®

Babylon Micro-Farms partners with GROWFOAM^® to offer its customers a new certified compostable & biodegradable grow medium

GROWFOAM^®, a premiere plant growth medium has partnered with Babylon to bring their safe, sustainable, and fully compostable solution to indoor Micro-Farms. Over the past 8 months Babylon have done extensive in-house growth tests and customer network tests. Feedback during the customer trials has been overwhelmingly positive.

“We are proud to be the exclusive partner of GROWFOAM^® for small scale on-site farms in North America. GROWFOAM^® retains the ease of use of current growth medium while reducing waste thus bringing a new level of sustainability to an already sustainable system.”  Said Alexander Olesen (Babylon CEO)

Niels Steenvoorden (CCO GROWFOAM^®) adds to that: “We’re proud to have Babylon as a partner who shares our grow greener, safer and faster vision in Micro-Farms. We look forward to working with Babylon, as well as large-scale farms in the US.” He stresses that the GROWFOAM^® substrate is suitable – or can be customized to be suited – any industrial scale controlled agriculture environment.

GROWFOAM^® provides a premium medium for both germination and growth. It is on-site compostable which eliminates the need to separate roots from the grow medium since they are both biodegraded and will be completely converted into water and CO₂ upon degradation. GROWFOAM^® contains no microplastics or PFAS.“

The GROWFOAM^® product offers the following benefits:

• Reduce risk of harmful plant diseases or human pathogens with clean GROWFOAM^®
• Lower maintenance costs.
• More stable water micro environment due to cleaner substrate.
• More predictable production and logistics.
• No end-of-life disposal issues when using our certified Industrially Compostable GROWFOAM^®
• Using GROWFOAM^® puts growers in full control of water saturation levels.
• Optimal automation potential.
• High and consistent germination and continuous growth
• GROWFOAM^® is TUV Industrial Composing Certified (DIN EN 13432 standard), with Home Composting and Soil Degradation certifications pending.