H E A L T H
Eat Your Medicine: Food as Pharmacology
Food is the most powerful medicine available to heal chronic disease, which will account for over 50 million deaths and cost the global economy $47 trillion by 2030. All you need to do is eat your medicine and think of your grocery store as your pharmacy.
The Chinese have known this for centuries … [See More]
E D U C A T I O N
Hydroponics, the art and science of growing plants in water instead of soil, is more ever-present today as families, schools and communities face disrupted food systems, food insecurities, rising food costs and deteriorating food quality.
Education in hydroponics can be life changing. Creating an interest in growing fresh, sustainable, environmentally friendly plants, vegetables and flowers, anywhere, all year round -- [See More]
A C C E S S
Access for Real People & Workable Solutions
Hydroponics is scalable! This relates directly to access for real people. Our systems scale from a single “Pineapple Platform” to full scale commercial production capacity. The importance of access to the technology and the concept of hydroponics cannot be overstated. Everyone at every level can participate in the revolution in farming.
Hydroponics in its various forms overcomes the conventional barriers farming. Personal systems can be established and maintained in your home, school, neighborhood, community, or urban location. [See More]
S U S T A I N A B I L I T Y
Our home is a complex place. Birmingham's city limits contain both nationally-renowned cuisine and expansive food deserts, a disparity that's hard to ignore when you work in the food and beverage industry like our founder, Frank, did.
Frank teamed up with his wife, Jillian, to make fresh and nutritious produce accessible and affordable for people on both ends of that spectrum. And thanks to vertical hydroponics, we're doing it in a way that's kind to our friends in and around the Cahaba—thank us later, lilies.
From kitchen table to chef's table, Yellow Hammer Farms exists to bring new, affordable, uncommon offerings to a community with an appetite for so much more!