Wouldn’t it be great to have access to locally grown, organic lettuce in your market all the time – no matter where you live? And I mean, really local … grown, say, right in or near your urban center, without the use of arable land — and without the need to ship lettuce from California to the east coast — saving natural resources, shipping, time … while providing fresh organic lettuce on a steady basis.

Matt Liotta, founder of Atlanta-based start-up, PodPonics, aims to offer the ability to grow organic hydroponic lettuce locally in specially outfitted recycled shipping containers.

These computer-controlled environmental systems have a bunch of great features:

• regulate temperature, humidity, pH levels and carbon dioxide
• outfitted with organic hydroponic nutrient solutions
• lights emit a specific spectrum at different points in the day to provide the exact amount of water, light and nutrients that a crop requires so there’s no wasted energy
• 320 square feet produces an acre’s worth of produce
• can be stacked on top of each other for maximum use of space
• lettuce & micro greens can be grown at or near the point of consumption, year-round

Here’s hoping it takes … more @ podPonics.com