The Dentsu Facility Management Inc. has come up with the Chef’s Farm, a small vegetable plot that can be installed indoors, allowing the owner to harvest 60 heads of lettuce each day. Since the device, which will be released in Japan, is priced at $90,000, it would take the owners a good five years to recoup the cost of investment. The Chef’s Farm uses twelve 40W CFLs to replicate the sun indoors, which probably isn’t the most efficient way to grow vegetables, but if you don’t have much access to the sun, it’s something to consider. Perhaps the designers of this system might want to figure out a way to let it harvest solar energy or some other form of energy to make it more eco-friendly in the future.
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