The idea
What it's about
Every year, more than 1,000 farmers in Germany give up pig farming due to a lack of prospects. Stallgrün gives them a new opportunity by enabling vegetable production and marketing in their vacant pigsties.
By controlling environmental factors such as temperature and humidity, cultivation inside the pigsty becomes independent of climate and weather and thus resilient to climate change and extreme weather events. This allows for consistent, year-round production of high-quality vegetables, strengthening food security.
At the same time, this new business model offers former pig farmers a viable future perspective and helps counter the decline of family farms. Stallgrün provides farmers with indoor farming systems, cultivation protocols, and marketing strategies. The farmers, in turn, contribute their expertise, facilities, and renewable energy sources.
Together with the farmers, Stallgrün stands for a resilient food system, one that farmers can truly make a living from.
The team
Who is behind it
The drive to found Stallgrün came from the personal experience of co-founder Thorsten, who grew up on a pig farm himself. Today, as CEO, he contributes his knowledge as a marketing specialist and business IT specialist and his experience in entrepreneurship, project management and marketing. Judith, another co-founder and CTO, takes on the technical part. She is a bioscientist and has experience in the fields of entrepreneurship, plant biology and bioinformatics.
With the Seedhouse, we combine two of our most important values: entrepreneurship and down-to-earthness.
Thorsten Lansmann-Niehaus
Co-Founder & CEO
