
I promise that headline isn’t a Mad Libs. The Canadian company Plantaform introduced its eponymous smart indoor garden powered by “fogponics” at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, marking its hard launch in the U.S. CEO Alberto Aguilar plugs it as a “Nespresso for your vegetables” that uses an ultra-fine vapor to hydrate plants, resulting in…

Growing plants with fog? If you’re like me, you might be thinking: Sounds like a gimmick. But after testing the Plantaform, a new indoor gardening system that uses fogponics, a form of aโeroponics that incorporates vaporized water and plant nutrients to grow edible plants that’s typically been reserved for commercial agriculture applications, and learning from…

This past winter, Plantaformโs new smart indoor garden arrived at my Brooklyn home. I was excited at the prospect of growing heads of leafy green lettuce, channeling my inner Mark Watney, the left-on-Mars botanist in The Martian. Like many apartment dwellers, I donโt have access to a backyard garden, and even if I did, it…