Discover the world of our innovative soilless cultivation.Start your soilless garden today and enjoy the freedom to cultivate in any space. Let’s grow together!
SOILLESS CULTIVATION FOR EVERYONE EVERYWHERE
Discover the world of our innovative soilless cultivation.Start your soilless garden today and enjoy the freedom to cultivate in any space. Let’s grow together!
MEAPLANT INNOVATION has received important awards at the International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva 2024, for its important innovative impact in agriculture. The international Jury, composed of 102 experts, awarded the inventors the prestigious special prize of the Italian Delegation, delivered by Dr. Stefano LORENZONI, representative for Italy, and the gold medal with the congratulations of the Jury. The inventors also received the gold medal of the Eiffel International Grand Prix delivered by the President of the French Federation of Inventors (EFI), Gèrard Roquillon.
MEAPLANT INNOVATION is a system for growing vegetables or ornamental plants, in which the soil is replaced with an innovative substrate consisting of a mesh of threads made with hydrophobic and inert materials. Thanks to this new growing substrate, the system is easy to use with the recirculation and recovery of water, with a saving of up to 90%, and of the mineral salts necessary for plant nutrition, with a saving of up to 60%. The closed loop system not release waste water into the environment and does not pollute the aquifers. In MEAPLANT vegetables grow strong and lush, thanks to their continuous correct fertigation and without snails or other soil parasites. This allows you to grow without the use of pesticides.
This new technology is patented in many countries: Europe, USA, China, India, Australia, United Arab Emirates, and allows you to have an eco-sustainable, autonomous growing system that can be used by everyone, everywhere and without effort. The system will be produced in modular kits, consisting of channels, supports, irrigation systems, water reserve tanks and low-consumption pumps for recirculating the nutrient solution. Accessories for customized models will also be available.
The KITS will be useful mainly for anyone who wants to have their own vegetable garden on the terrace, on the balcony, in urban spaces, as well as in the countryside. It can also be composed in large cultivation spaces by connecting multiple modules together. With our system it will be simple and fun to grow in a small space, without soil, without effort and without giving up your free time. Finally you will be able to grow safely and eat fresh, tasty and vitamin-rich vegetables..
Our systems are designed to optimize the use of space and water, ensuring water savings up to 90%
By eliminating the need for soil, reducing water usage, Our cultivation methods promote sustainable agriculture practices that are gentle on the environment.
Production rich in vitamins and antioxidants
Innovation is key to ensuring access to water, food and income in the face of climate change. “Every drop counts”: MEAPLANT INNOVATION maximizes resource efficiency and resilience in agriculture.
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has recognized MEAPLANT INNOVATION as a sustainable cultivation system, defining it as :
“An innovation that is aligned with the objectives of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”
Expertise: Backed by years of research and development, our team of experts is dedicated to delivering cutting-edge solutions that deliver results.
Yes compared to traditional intensive cultivation. Our system is made of recyclable materials, it recycles water and mineral salts without dispersing fertilizers into the environment. It avoids the salinization of the land, the pollution of water resources and does not cause the eutrophication of surface waters. It is low cost because it does not require complex technologies.
In Europe the legislation provides that organic cultivation can only be certified if carried out in the soil,while in the States it is possible to certify organic cultivation even if carried out without soil. In soilless there are no soil parasites and no pesticides are necessary. Furthermore, polluting elements may be present in the soil. In the soilless cultivation the plants are nourished with correctly dosed mineral salts for luxuriant growth and production, rich in nutritional elements.
Cultivating your own vegetable garden with MEAPLANT innovation will give you the certainty of a healthy and quality harvest
The fertilizers used in the MEAPLANT innovation are mineral salts: salts of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium etc., which are also present in organic fertilizers of animal or plant origin.
Salinization is an accumulation of salts in the soil or growing substrate which occurs following subsequent fertilization cycles. In the soil it causes a long-term loss of fertility by drying it out. In soilless cultivation substrates, plant growth is compromised. To avoid this, it is necessary to repeatedly wash the substrate with abundant quantities of water, which will then be poured enriched with salts into the environment. The MEAPLANT substrate has been designed not to absorb salinity.
Many phenomena in Nature involve trapped drops of water: the formation of dew drops on a spider’s web, the capture of drops of water on the spines of cacti or the movement of droplets on plant fibres. These phenomena have been studied and explored for various technological applications: from microfluidics for medical and electronic equipment, to harvest nets of the water drops from fog in the desert areas. MEAPLANT’s innovation for the first time in history has applied these physical principles to make soilless cultivation simple, efficient and suitable for everyone.
Our cultivation substrate is made up of a mesh of threads made with materials for food use which are hydrophobic and chemically inert.
The drops of water and mineral salts, supplied by an irrigation system, remain suspended on the threads for the balance that it is established between the surface tension of the drops and their weight.
The videos below show how the drops supplied by an irrigation system are captured by a mesh of interwoven threads as happens in our growing substrate. When the drops increase in mass and become greater than the surface tension resistance force, they precipitate inside the tank.
Diagram of the equilibrium forces.
Simulation Acknowledgements: Simulation result courtesy of Flow Science, Inc., developer of the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software, FLOW-3D® (https://www.flow3d.com). Flow Science is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico USA – Inc. 683 Harkle Road.