Enjoy nature 365 days a year: grow herbs, greens, veggies, flowers anytime, anywhere with this automated vertical garden
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Easy to use and accessible to all, you can grow fresh food or decorative plants 365 days a year, anywhere you want.
Boost your health and your living space with our new smart garden!
Gardening requires knowledge, time, space availability, equipment and a fertile soil. With Gourmet you don’t need any of that. It takes care of everything to guarantee optimal plant growth:
- Self-watering system (with Autofill™ option).
- All-in-one plant refill: the Lingot® (seeds & nutrients included).
- Energy-efficient LED grow light (for indoor use).
Gourmet makes it super easy to reconnect with nature and come back to simpler and healthier values.
Gourmet is the first modular hydroponic garden compatible with indoor and outdoor use.
You can enjoy Gourmet while following the seasons. Do you have a garden or a balcony? Grow outdoors in spring and summer. Winter is coming? Just bring Gourmet inside and keep growing with the INDOOR lighting kit.
We have 8 years of expertise in designing and engineering growing systems. We love to create the best quality and user-friendly products.
Thanks to its powder-coated aluminum structure, Gourmet is lightweight, easy to move and will endure any climate. Quality is similar to luxury outdoor furniture.
Just like our award wining smart gardens, Gourmet is very simple to use: just insert the Lingot®(plant refill), add water, plug it in (if indoors) and let it grow!
Gourmet fits anywhere: kitchen, living room, balcony, terrace, rooftop, restaurant, business office… From the smallest to the biggest space, its modular and scalable design offers endless possibilities to make your life better.
Countertop or stand-alone ? 1, 2 or 3 levels? With or without a shelf? The choice is yours! The Véritable® Gourmet is intended for easy self-production. You can start small with 1 level and add more levels or options later.
Gourmet is an ingenious furniture piece that blends into your living space. Nature prevails abundantly with its elegant and sleek design.
NO SPACE? GOURMET WILL FIT ANYWAY!
Its space-efficient design fits small places thanks to a very compact shape and narrow depth. The unit only uses 0.17m²/1.8ft² on the floor or counter space. This vertical garden is scalable so you can start small and add more modules later using the same floor surface.
Whether you live in a small apartment or in a house with a garden, Gourmet fits your lifestyle and allows you to grow large amounts of greens for everyday use.
BOUNTIFUL HARVESTS | ALWAYS FRESH
Greens bought from the store perish quickly and produce excessive of plastic waste. With Gourmet, you will be able to produce a significant part of your daily food in a sustainable way. What’s more local than growing food in your kitchen or patio?
Harvest when you need it: freshly cut greens keep essential vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients beneficial to your health.
MORE FOOD DIVERSITY
Do you have the impression you are always eating the same vegetables? Over the years, intensive farming led to 80% less plant variety. We want more choice and flavor diversity in our daily lives!
With our collection of 75+ plants available to grow, you can add variety, flavor and freshness to all your favorite dishes. And because it’s within reach when you cook, you will eat more of them.
Beyond the nutritional aspect, Véritable® gardens are meant to be fun and educational. Rediscover with your loved ones the beauty of growing a tomato, the handmade pollination magic, the divine smell of fresh basil …You will be amazed how fast the young sprouts grow each day!
Each level can fit 6 Lingots® so you can grow up to 18 varieties at the same time (A Lingot® contains 5 to 10 plants of the same species).
Gourmet is our most improved gardening system: more space for each plant to thrive, larger water tank coupled with our most efficient grow light.
3X FASTER | 6 MONTH HARVESTS
You are growing seeds 3 times faster than in soil. Plants are ready to harvest in just 3-4 weeks and each refill lasts up to 6 months with an average weekly harvest. Create a growing cycle to always harvest and eat your homegrown produce!
Gourmet works with with our patented Lingot®: a biodegradable ready-to-use refill.
The Lingot® contains everything to ensure the perfect conditions for fast and healthy plant growth:
- Natural soil-less media: maximizes rooting and gives optimal levels of pH and oxygen.
- Carefully selected Organic seeds.
- Optimized slow-release nutrients that last up to 6 months.
NO SEEDS OR NUTRIENTS NEEDED
No need to add nutrient solution, no need to sow your seeds, everything is in the pod! This solution is easy to use, clean, efficient and environmentally friendly.
PROPAGATE | REPLANT | RECYCLE
You can use the Lingot® in any of our Véritable® garden models, and then you can replant it in the soil or compost it.
You can also use Gourmet as a propagation system: start breeding indoors early spring, then transfer to soil outdoors.
THE LINGOT®: THE BIGGEST PLANT POD
Our Lingot® is the largest grow pod on the market: its growing surface is 3 to 10 times bigger than others and it also contains more seeds. Gourmet is compact in size but offers the same quantity of plants than bigger systems.
Véritable® sold 1 Million Lingots® in the last 8 years, always improving efficiency, diversity of seeds and soil quality.
The collection of Lingots® invites you to a journey of 75+ flavors: from the most classic to the most original, this wide range of plants sparks creativity in the kitchen with greens, fruits and vegetables, and adds a splash of color with edible flowers.
A LARGE CHOICE OF 75+ PLANTS
Lingots®varieties are selected for their taste and their capacity to grow well in hydroponics.
We are currently working on adding decorative and depolluting plants along with taller plants like bigger tomatoes.
Grow your seeds with the unseeded Lingot®
This seedless refill allows you to experiment with any seeds you wish to grow. Our special soil-less growing media gives the plant the best germinating environment with the perfect oxygen, water and nutrients combination. This Lingot® contains plant food that lasts for up to 6 months depending on the species you grow.
80% LESS WATER | NO PUMP = NO NOISE
Gourmet works with a passive hydroponic system. It uses 80% less water than in traditional agriculture in soil. It waters your plants by capillarity action via watering wicks. Our system does not use any water pump: there no risk of malfunction and it is completely silent.
ALWAYS CLEAN | NO MAINTENANCE
Our special soil-less media brings the optimal amount of water and oxygen to the plant. It is impossible to overwater and kill your plants. Plant food is in the substrate, so the water stays clean. You never need to change it!
UP TO 4 WEEKS OF SELF-WATERING
Enjoy 1 to 4 weeks of autonomous watering on each level (depending on growing stage, temperature and weather).
Blinking LEDs and visual gauge tell you when to add water in the tank.
AUTOFILL™ – NEVER ADD WATER, EVER!
With the Autofill™ option you don’t even need to add water anymore. Connect the kit to a water tap, it automatically and permanently fills up the tank. It works indoors or outdoors with no pump (water pressure) and is completely silent. You can go on vacation peacefully, your smart garden won’t dry out even during heat waves.
NO SUN NEEDED
Cold weather? No window in the room? Going on holidays? No worries: Gourmet INDOOR does not need any sunlight!
We developed a specific mix of white and blue LEDs to boost photosynthesis and develop flavors so you can enjoy tasty greens year round.
Our professional grade LEDs are energy efficient and long lasting (min 10 years).
NO LIGHT POLLUTION
We designed our light to be comfortable in your daily life. We use an optical lens along with our Aluminium light shade that focuses the light spectrum on your plants. As a result, our grow light is safe for the eyes and not dazzling.
ADAPT’LIGHT™
Gourmet INDOOR fits in every room, whether it’s dark or sunny. Our Adapt’light™ technology automatically adjusts the LED brightness to ambient light to provide the right amount of light throughout the day. This function also reduces energy consumption.
ADJUSTABLE HEIGHT TO FOLLOW PLANT GROWTH
We designed a quick & easy light bar adjustment system to always get the right intensity from germination to adult stage. It goes higher than our previous models so you can grow plants up to 39 cm/15.3”.
Gourmet is already autonomous so you don’t really need your phone to take care of it. But for those who need a little guidance, we will open and improve our existing Véritable® mobile app as a companion app adding Gourmet features in it. You will be able to check your status of your plants, learn how to maintain them, get harvest and pollination tips, plus this will help you choose the species to grow outdoors during the right season.
A subscription plan will be available, so you always have something to grow with regular Lingots® deliveries to your home.
On average, store-bought packaged herbs can survive a few days and potted herbs will last maximum 1 month indoors. They quickly lose their shape, nutrients and taste. With just one level of Gourmet you can grow the equivalent of 100+ store-bought herbs or 70+ potted-plants each year!
WEATHERPROOF | 0% RUST | 0% NEW PLASTIC
Gourmet is built from long-lasting premium materials: powder-coated aluminum, High Pressure Laminate (HPL), 100% recycled Polypropylene (PP), and stainless steel hardware. These sturdy lightweight materials are fully recyclable.
Packaging is made of recycled and recyclable cardboard with 0% single use plastic.
EASY ASSEMBLY & CLEANING
The system is made to be easy to assemble (15 min), easy to clean and to move (eg. indoors <> outdoors) so you can enjoy gardening without the hassle.
Since its creation in 2015, Véritable® has made the bold choice to manufacture all its products in its country of origin: France. In 2020, we opened an office and warehouse in the US.
We are committed to participate and grow our economic environment, relying on 30 industrial partners. Gourmet includes a high level craftsmanship in laser cutting, folding, welding, powder coating… All these steps are made by passionate people just a few kilometers from our head office.
CHOICE OF LINGOT® (plant refill)
With each level of Gourmet, a 6 Lingot® kit is included. You will be able to choose your plant kit via the post-campaign survey.
The available kits will be the following :
- A) sweet basil, italian parsley, chives, mint, thyme, oregano.
- B) cilantro, curly parsley, dill, butterhead lettuce, arugula, oakleaf lettuce.
- C) mini red tomato, cayenne chili, wild strawberry, mini bell pepper, pansy, petunia.
- D) 6 x unseeded Lingot®, to grow your own seeds!
Kit may vary for certain countries due to customs regulations (eg. Australia & NZ).
Véritable® is a leader in urban indoor farming. Already 150 000+ indoor gardens sold in 20 countries and in 1000+ retail locations.
With our previous successful Kickstarter campaign, we proved we can deliver high quality and efficient products. Your rewards will be shipped in a short timeline as we are finalizing the product development phase and almost ready to launch mass production.
12 functional prototypes have been manufactured and tested indoors and outdoors for 2 years, industrial costs have been carefully analyzed. We know exactly where we are going, we couldn’t be more confident in Gourmet’s success. We need your support to start tooling and manufacturing.
Gourmet was introduced at Ambiente Fair in February 2023 (Germany) where cook chefs saw immediate use in their kitchens.
Our previous smart gardens received multiple awards, including a CES innovation awards for Exky in 2019.
Our existing products have been reviewed and loved by end users and media worldwide.
Our 29,000 sqft² head office and factory is based in Lyon, France’s capital of gastronomy. Engineering, R&D, agronomy, marketing, sales, manufacturing and customer support: all expertises are represented in our team to provide the best quality product and the best customer experience. We have 4 different laboratories under controlled atmosphere: R&D, Quality Check, Customer Experience and Lingots® manufacturing.
Passionate about cooking and nature, Nicolas & Chloe started Véritable® to give access to fresh food. Insatiable inventors, their creativity matches their taste for challenge.
We are committed to providing excellent customer service, with our specialized team ready to help you get the most out of your Véritable® Gourmet experience.
We will offer a 2 -year warranty to our Kickstarter backers from the moment their units are received. If your unit is not working properly, we will provide you with personalized technical support via email to help you solve the problem, and if necessary, we will send you replacement parts and provide guidance so you can fix it. If the issue persists, or something can’t be fixed remotely, we will repair your unit without charge (shipping fee may apply depending on your country).
Germination warranty (INDOORS only)
Nature is sometimes unpredictable: in case your Lingot® did not germinate after 20 days, we offer a voucher on our e-shop to replace it. Simply send us a photo of your garden within 30 days of planting.
