SkyAcres
SkyAcres provides drop-in indoor farming systems that operate inside existing cold storage rooms, packhouses, and barns without plumbing, pumps, or HVAC retrofits. Each modular unit uses capillary wicking and piezoelectric misting to deliver nutrients, eliminating the moving parts that fail on conventional systems. A 5,000 sq ft room can hold hundreds of modules, with an 8-month breakeven on top crops like basil.
- Agriculture Technology
- Clean Technology
- Hardware
Funding
Raised to date
$120KRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
Traditional indoor farming requires expensive retrofits—plumbing, pumps, HVAC systems—and dedicated climate-controlled facilities, which puts year-round production out of reach for many growers. Cold storage rooms and packhouses sit idle for large portions of the year, and converting them to grow space typically demands capital-intensive infrastructure changes that delay or kill projects.
Solution
SkyAcres provides drop-in indoor farming systems that operate inside existing cold storage rooms, packhouses, and barns without any plumbing, pumps, or HVAC retrofits. Each modular unit uses a felt pad to wick nutrient solution to roots by capillary action and a piezoelectric atomizer to turn it into mist, eliminating the moving parts and central irrigation loops that fail on conventional systems. Every three-level growing module runs its own root zone and mixes its own feed, meaning nothing is shared between racks and failures stay contained. Microclimate kits condition only the rack zone rather than the whole building, and beneficial insects are shipped pre-installed and released automatically via on-rack cameras when pests are detected.
Target Audience
The primary customers are growers—farmers and greenhouse operators who already own cold storage rooms, packhouses, or barns and want to extend their growing season or add indoor production without expensive infrastructure changes.
Features
- Pump-free nutrient delivery via capillary wicking and piezoelectric misting, eliminating clogging and central irrigation loop failures
- Independent 3-level modules that run their own root zones and feed mixing, containing failures and simplifying GAP/HACCP traceability
- Optional ~$800 microclimate kits that condition the 12-rack zone instead of the entire building, avoiding HVAC retrofits
- Built-in beneficial insects with on-rack cameras that detect and release predators like ladybugs and lacewings automatically
- Uses up to 90% less water than conventional growing with ~40% more energy efficiency