Thanks to recent graduate Karen MacKay, who is apparently as generous as she is talented, the growBot lab is now home to her modular hydroponic vertical farm, equipped with water bottles modded to hold planters, ceramic beads, and a cyclical water reservoir. The farm was used for her award-winning master’s project, so you can imagine [...]

This past Monday was our long-awaited growBot Symposium, a day-long workshop which brought together a diverse group of farmers, producers, and other growing-minded individuals to learn the basics of robotics and build imaginative robotic prototypes. The event turned out wonderfully (despite being rained out of our original space), and everyone got to stretch their imaginations, [...]