Green Lab is excited to be hosting FARM491’s Inspiring AgriTech Innovation Boot camp on 8th & 9th April. The two day bootcamp is for AgriFood and AgriTech startups looking to take the next steps to define their business model and become investor ready. Farm491 specialises in helping turn technology ideas […]
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Apply for the EIT Food Entrepreneurship Prize.
Applications for the EIT Food Entrepreneurship prize are open until 9th November – apply to be in with a chance to recieve €10,000 of equity-free funding. The award is presented by the EIT Food Business Creation Innovation Grant Scheme. They are on a mission to transform Europe’s food system – […]
Read MoreSouthwark… we’re sticking with you
The Lab has gone a little quiet over the last week – with big decisions to be made… With the news that our Bermondsey home will stay standing until early 2019 we have decided to stay put and halt our move to Brixton – that’s right Lambeth – I’m afraid […]
Read MoreOur fermentation resident launches Kompassion Kombucha
Update 18th November 2022 Four years after brewing Kompassion Kombucha from Hackney, we will now be brewing from Scotland to expand the brewery and widen our reach. It’s been such a long journey and we are looking forwrard to a new vision and retail expertise that will grow and evolve […]
Read MoreSilly Greens growing in the lab
Silly greens moved into the lab just before Christmas and they have been busy perfecting their growing space to ensure they can produce the tastiest microgreens since then. Silly Greens ethos is simple, helping people to access and grow their own microgreens, allowing them to dress up any home cooked […]
Read MoreBento Lab – Green Lab residents
Bento Lab is a DNA analysis laboratory created by Bethan Wolfenden and Philipp Boeing. The duo are currently in their first production run of the first affordable DNA laboratory after it successfully passed beta testing. With backgrounds in Biochemistry and Computer Science they are seeking to bring DNA testing into […]
Read MoreGreen Lab #openhouse – Urban Agriculture movement in London, New York & Shanghai
For our first #openhouse of 2018 we welcomed our fellow urban agricultural mavericks into the lab to hear how urban ag is impacting cities and communities around the globe. With urbanisation on the rise and our growing concerns for the current food systems in place we are seeing technology set […]
Read MoreWe’re measuring our aquaponic Chilli plants in Mhz
Scoville is the scale of measurement of the pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers. Mhz is what Green Lab are using to measure the effectiveness of our chilli aquaponic system, 30Mhz. Located in one of our 24 demo bays is a small scale aquaponic system, home to two bonito chilli […]
Read MoreEntocycle and the Black Soldier Flies
It could almost be a new wave millennial pop group, but Entocycle, winner of the 2016 Mass Challenge Platinum Award have joined the growing number of early stage startups in Green Lab. Entocycle are an innovative feed company developing an advanced and food sustainable system using black soldier fly to […]
Read MoreLondon’s first sustainable foods and ‘agri-tech’ incubator opens
Green Lab, London’s first incubator workspace for sustainable urban farming entrepreneurs and ‘agritech’ startup businesses opens its doors on the 22nd June, in an effort to create a new city community for sustainable food innovators in the capital and country’s growing £14 billion agri-tech sector. Green Lab occupies a temporary […]
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