Grown three blocks
from your kitchen.
Cut this morning.
A climate-controlled tower of stacked greens growing twelve months a year under soft violet LEDs — three blocks from the restaurants that plate them.
Chef partners across Chicago & suburbs
From a wilted case of arugula
to a tower of living green.
Every farm begins with a moment of frustration. Ours began in a restaurant walk-in cooler, holding a case of arugula that had traveled 1,800 miles to arrive yellow at the edges and two days past its best.
1,800mi
avg. distance for conventional greens
1,800 miles for lettuce that wilts before service.
In 2019, our founder Marcus Webb walked into his restaurant kitchen to find three cases of micro-arugula — ordered five days prior from a California farm — arriving oxidized and limp. The invoice: $340. The usable yield: maybe half. He photographed the box and wrote one line in his notebook: there has to be a better way.
A basement shelf, a grow light, and a question.
The first Canopy farm was four PVC shelves in Marcus's Logan Square basement. Rockwool cubes, a secondhand LED strip, a kitchen timer. The arugula germinated in six days. It tasted like nothing he'd grown in a restaurant garden — vivid, peppery, alive. He called his friend Elena Okafor, a hydroponic engineer, and said: I think we can stack this.
92%
less water than field growing
Stacking. Spectrum tuning. Nutrient cycling.
Three discoveries changed everything. First: vertical stacking multiplied yield per square foot by 14×. Second: dialing the LED spectrum to 660nm red and 450nm blue accelerated growth by 40% while deepening flavor compounds. Third: a closed-loop nutrient system reduced water consumption by 92% compared to field growing. The basement became a warehouse. The warehouse became a tower.
The numbers behind
every harvest.
We publish our growing data because transparency is part of the product. Every number below is auditable.
92%
Less water than field growing
Closed-loop hydroponic nutrient cycling
364
Harvest days per year
One planned maintenance day
Zero
Pesticides, herbicides, fungicides
Technical Specs
LED Spectrum: 660nm red + 450nm blue
Tuned to peak chlorophyll absorption. 40% faster growth than broad-spectrum alternatives.
Nutrient-film technique (NFT) channels
A thin film of nutrient solution flows continuously over roots. Oxygen-rich, waste-minimal.
Climate control: 68°F / 65% RH year-round
Consistent conditions eliminate seasonal variation. Every harvest is the same quality.
Delivery radius: 12 miles from tower
Cut-to-delivery in under 4 hours. No cold chain degradation.
Current Varieties
+ 6 seasonal varieties. Custom grows available with 3-week lead time.
Ready to taste the difference?
We'll send a curated sample box to your kitchen — no commitment, no invoice. Just greens, cut this morning.
Three kinds of kitchens.
One farm.
Canopy serves the full food chain — from the chef's pass to the produce aisle to the city's climate ledger.
Same-day micro-herbs, every service.
Executive chefs tell us the same thing: they stopped ordering micro-herbs from distributors because the quality was unpredictable. With Canopy, you place an order by 9 PM and it arrives before morning prep. Purple shiso, red amaranth, pea tendrils — cut at peak flavor, not peak logistics.
"The shiso from Canopy has a depth I haven't found from any distributor. It arrives the same morning I need it."
— Dominique Rivas, Executive Chef, Sable Chicago
Consistent volume. Predictable price. No surprises.
Grocery procurement managers are tired of wilted cross-country lettuce and unpredictable wholesale pricing driven by California weather events. Canopy offers weekly standing orders, fixed per-unit pricing, and a 99.2% on-time delivery rate. We grow to your schedule, not ours.
"We switched our butter lettuce program to Canopy six months ago. Shrink dropped 34%. Our floor team noticed the difference in week one."
— Nathaniel Osei, Produce Procurement, Mariano's North Shore
Carbon reduction you can photograph.
City sustainability officers need partnerships that produce verifiable impact — not pledges. Canopy provides quarterly carbon accounting reports, water savings data, and food-mile calculations. Our tower eliminates an estimated 18,400 food-miles per year compared to the produce it replaces. That's a number you can put in a press release.
"Canopy was the easiest climate partnership we've signed. The data was ready before we asked for it."
— Priya Mehta, Director of Climate & Equity, City of Chicago
47+
Chef partners
34%
Average shrink reduction
18,400
Food-miles eliminated/yr
99.2%
On-time delivery rate