Imagine you decide to make quick dinner after a long tired day, so you just pick your organic greens from your garden, toss some ingredients and a fresh salad is ready on your dining table in minutes! Sounds like a dream in Dubai, isn’t it? But believe me, it’s now possible, growing your own fresh green leafy vegetables without much work, thanks to Italian Food Masters who brought Urban Cultivator to Dubai!
Healthy, Sustainable, Organic, Fresh Greens
Radish Micro Greens grown in Urban Cultivator
What is Urban Cultivator?
Urban Cultivator is a closed loop self-watering, Hydroponics system. The commercial unit is fully automated. To install this unit all you need is water tap connection and electrical connection. The food grown in Urban Cultivator is completely organic by using Urban Cultivator’s wide range of organic seeds and organic liquid nutrients to add in water while growing micro greens. No chemicals or sprays are used in Urban Cultivator.
Residential Urban Cultivator
Urban Cultivator comes in two sizes Residential Unit and Commercial Unit. You can grow organic vegetables, herbs, and micro-greens or micro-herbs in these units. Micro-greens not only take less time to grow when compared to their mature counterparts but are denser in nutritional content. Microgreens contain 100 times more enzymes than fresh fruits and vegetables as well as great source of both fatty acids and fiber!
Residential Urban Cultivator
Control panel on Urban Cultivator
Benefits of Urban Cultivators
Our body’s healthy pH is 7.35, or slightly alkaline, yet most of the foods and beverages consumed are overly acidic (e.g. meat, soda, processed foods, etc.). Adding more alkaline-forming foods like those grown in the Urban Cultivator can help you combat inflammation, reduce stress, and protect bone health.
Who can use Urban Cultivator?
It is a great product for any food and beverage operators like hotels and restaurants, juice bars. By investing in Urban Cultivator you not just offer fresh organic farm to table food to your customers but you are even joining sustainable food movement and reducing significant carbon footprint involved in procuring micro-greens from some place outside.
Used in Restaurant
One Urban Cultivator Commercial can grow 16 flats and is able to yield one to two flats per day. The average wholesale price of wheat grass and pea shoots is AED 120 per flat. Using 1 flat per day you get AED 3.200 per month in savings. Similarly, you can achieve significant saving by planting classic herbs like basil, tarragon, oregano and micro-greens like shiso, broccoli, radish, and lettuces; not to forget fresh flavors will enhance the overall taste of the dish you offer to your customers!
Urban Cultivator for Juice Bars
The convenience and availability of fresh, organic, healthy greens available through out the year makes Urban Cultivator residential unit a great choice for any home! I think by using the stylish design of residential units, developers can use them in new buildings and stamp their uniqueness and sustainability commitments loud and clear!
Google headquarters in Dubai has installed Urban Cultivator
But this is not all, this great product can be very useful for offices and corporate catering. This will not just strengthen your corporate social responsibility by making fresh organic greens available to your employees but this will boost the wellness of your employees and in turn, will increase the efficiency of work output from your employees! Google headquarters in Dubai has set an example by installing Commercial Urban Cultivator at their office. Who wouldn’t want to work in a office, where employer cares so much and promotes healthy eating habits?
Urban Cultivator for Educational Purpose
Lastly, I would love to highlight my favorite application of Urban Cultivator in the education system. This product will be a great addition to any school gardens in UAE, specially most of schools can have outdoor gardens only during 4-5 months of good weather. But with this, schools can teach their students about how food grows and gardening principals year round through hand on activities. This is also a great tool to teach students sustainable and organic food ideas and technologies like hydroponics. The produce of school based urban cultivator can be used at in house school catering and students can enjoy fresh and healthier food, which can significantly impact on their well being and achieving better scores!
My Experience of using Micro greens from Urban Cultivator
When Italian Food Masters introduced me to their Urban Cultivator unit, I was completely stunned. I would call the experience of picking or cutting of fresh micro greens from urban cultivator trays as aroma therapy experience! Imagine the smell of fresh greens like to smell them only on farms! My son enjoyed the experience even more than me! And the biggest joy as a mother was when my son ate greens from salad without any of nagging from me! Frankly, I never prepared a salad with freshly picked greens, so my radish salad was highly appreciated at home and was finished within minutes!
Smoothie using Micro greens of sweet basil
Salad using Micro greens of radish
More about Italian Food Masters
Italian Food Masters are not just exclusive UAE and GCC dealer of Urban Cultivator they are passionate about the new movement of growing your own organic food! They supply all necessary equipment, seeds, soil, accessories and also provide training with a broad range of after-sales services and support to ensure time efficient problem solving by their expert trained team.
You can visit their showroom in DIP and see for yourself a fully functioning Urban Cultivator always growing variety of micro greens and even taste the produce right there!
Mr. Corrado Chiarentin of Italian Food Masters