Urban Greens

Urban Greens Commercial hydroponic systems for microgreens and baby greens. Designed and
installed by growers, shipping to 34+ countries since 2017.

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09/16/2026

We haven't always harvested this way, it has been a gradual transition with lots of experiments along the way. For us, harvesting vertically has been the number one time saver in our operation. In order to scale, you need to streamline your processes and improve the tasks that take the most time
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09/15/2026

Our harvest cart is one of our biggest time savers. The ability to move the greens in bulk around the warehouse saves dozens of hours per month. It is one of four carts that we have designed for our production facitilty
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09/08/2026

Hanging our greens to harvest lets us increase our efficiency and montior quality control very easily
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09/04/2026

Streamlining your processes is crucial to running an efficient operation. We have stations for everything that we do. Careful preparations ahead of time makes planting and harvest days so much faster!
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09/02/2026

Hanging to harvest. Not only satisfying, but highly efficient. Adjusting our operation to harvest our greens vertically turned out to be one of our biggest time savers
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08/31/2026

At harvest our fastest varieties are 14 days old and our slowest are 20.
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That gap is the whole scheduling problem. Plant everything on the same day and you harvest on a different day for every variety. So the planting schedule is staggered on purpose, the ages are deliberately different, and a mixed harvest lands on one day.
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What you want on that day is greens that are not too old and woody and not too young and delicate. That is where the volume is and it is where the shelf life is.
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That schedule took a lot of trial and error. It is not something you get right at first.
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08/28/2026

Right now we are running a couple of varieties of bok choy, plus kale, arugula, cabbage, mustard greens and radish greens.
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That list is not random. We pick for two things: how robust the variety is in the system, and how nutritionally dense it is.
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Arugula is worth calling out. It was one of our best selling products when we were producing, and it is also one of the harder ones to grow well. We put real time into it because the demand justified it.
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08/26/2026

These are full spectrum LED bars, and they are here to replace the T8 and T5 fluorescents most growers start on.

Three reasons. They pull less electricity. They throw much less heat, which matters when you are stacking levels in a closed room. And they last years longer, so you replace them far less often.

We run them 16 hours on and 8 hours off.
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08/24/2026

Inside every channel is a mat. The seed germinates and the roots grow down through.

Two reasons it is there. It gives much tighter control over the watering cycle, and it gives the roots something to grow into.

It is not soil and it is not coco. It is a reusable fabric mat rated for 70+ plantings, so it comes out, gets cleaned, and goes back in.
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08/21/2026

We did not start here. Early on we grew the way most people start, in 10 by 20 trays of soil, watered from the top.

When we wanted to expand, we built a semi-hydroponic version of it. Flood and drain, so the trays watered from underneath instead of over the top. Then a full hydroponic system, a smaller version of what you are looking at now.

Ten years of that progression is why this looks simple. None of the steps were obvious at the time.

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