Purdue Students Created “Hydro Grow”

Purdue Students Created “Hydro Grow”

August 17, 2017 

People will produce faster and fresh food in their homes with the help of the Purdue student’s inventions. A mechanical engineering student named Scott Massey working on a NASA-funded project tasked with growing plants in outer space. Scott Massey said, “I think I realized that if I really had this one shot at life, why not try something new and take a risk?”. With the help of the co-founder and classmate Ivan Ball Scott Massey developed Hydro Grow.

The Hydro Grow is a business whose task is to provide easier access to people to freshly grown produce in their homes. The vertical tower Gropod named can produce a variety of vegetables as well as fruits faster rate than a traditional farm could.

Scott Massey said, “People want to know how their food is developed, and there’s just a general hunger for that knowledge”. Further, he said, “This is a product that lets people have the comfort to know that what they have is naturally grown, and they can be present every step of the way”.

The Gropod is still in its prototype phase. Scott Massey stated that they are looking to start selling the product in just a few months.

The process is simple Massey said, just people need to insert a seed into the Gropod’s slots and pour water into the tower and then let it grow. Ball said, “It will continue to grow until it’s ready for harvest”. Further, Ball added, “You can continually keep your produce fresh”. Ball said, “With a hydroponic system like we have, you’re actually able to continuously recycle the water over and over again by spraying the roots directly”.

Hydroponics quickly becoming one of the next targets for sustainable agriculture, it is a global industry that continues to grow.