Gooddrop’s ‘Grow-to-Wear’ Apparel Business Looks to Mass Produce Cotton Using Vertical Farms

Currently, Gooddrop is still “two 40-foot containers of research,” says Wardle. The company also has three growing rooms for experiments, and is also growing under glass “to give us some kind of balanced data so we can understand how abundant our crop is in the controlled environment.”

The next stage for the company is to scale up, beginning with building its first R&D facility that will have roughly 1,200 square meters of growing space, says Wardle.

“It will have a spinning mill attached. It’s in the design phase. We’re drawing up the architecture at the moment, and we have a variety of different locations and types of location in the UK.”

Wardle expects Gooddrop to come to market with its first garment in 2027.