Digital innovation and gourmet microgreens

With a focus on delivering fresh, local, nutritionally dense, and delicious produce Lusso Leaf was launched in 2020 by Richard and Sarah Kennedy. Two years on, it now grows over 45 varieties of microgreens and delivers to roughly 20 hospitality businesses across the area. Restaurants that include the Michelin-starred Latymer and the Michelin Guide-featured Kyoto Kitchen.

In this article, we follow how Lusso Leaf’s journey combined a career in IT and a passion for gardening to create a thriving business that, with the help of Kroptek, tackled some of the biggest challenges of setting up an indoor farm.

From IT to IoT

After a 30-year career in the city working with leading-edge tech start-ups, growing microgreens initially served as stress relief. But after leaving London, Richard and Sarah saw an opportunity in combining their expertise in technology and their love of growing by setting up an indoor farm.

Not satisfied with manually operating their farm, however, they went one step further, developing their own bespoke operating system using IoT to automate as many of the processes as possible. The IoT, or the Internet of Things, is a collective network of technology, devices, and the cloud that allows multiple devices, such as lights or sensors, to be controlled from a single interface.

Normally reserved for technology companies and larger farms, horticultural operating systems use the IoT to control indoor growing processes by measuring the conditions of a farm and responding in real time. A far cry from the large companies that these operating systems are typically used for, this is an example of homegrown digital innovation.

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Photo Courtesy of Kroptek

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