Urban farming, inside your café.
Whatever produce you want, all year round — microgreens, herbs, leafy greens and edible flowers, grown in a 61cm-wide cabinet that fits your prep room.
Six things cafés told us were broken
We surveyed professional kitchens buying specialty garnish week to week. Here's what's actually broken about that supply chain — and what a Metro cabinet fixes.
Flown-in & fragile
Specialty garnish is flown in from overseas and wilts in transit — what lands on the pass is already a shadow of fresh.
One van, once a week
A single weekly delivery decides your whole week's garnish — miss the van, and the menu has to bend around what's left.
Paid for, then binned
Whatever doesn't get used before it wilts gets thrown out anyway — you're paying for waste as much as for garnish.
86'd mid-service
Run out mid-service and the premium garnish comes off the pass for the rest of the night — no van until next week.
Commercial kit is oversized
Most grow kit is sized for a warehouse, not a prep room. Metro Solo is 61 × 61cm — no wider than a standard dishwasher, 204cm tall.
Seasonal & uncertain
Certain varieties disappear off price lists every winter — climate-controlled shelves mean your menu doesn't change with the season.
Install → resupply → harvest
Three steps, one cabinet, no horticultural experience required.
We install the cabinet
Delivered and commissioned in your kitchen — plumbed to a water source and plugged in, ready to plant the same day.
Seeds & nutrients arrive by post
Your Metro Care pouches for the month are posted or dropped off — pre-measured for your chosen crop mix.
App + sensors watch the grow
The WiFi controller runs light and irrigation on schedule, the sensor mesh flags anything unusual, and your team harvests.
Works offline. Better online.
The cabinet doesn't need the internet to grow — but it's better with it.
Standalone controller
No cloud dependency — if the WiFi drops, the crop doesn't. Light and irrigation schedules keep running locally, on-device.
Connected dashboard
A sensor mesh feeds a live status view, alerts and — as you add more cabinets — a fleet view across every site.
Greens that just work, guaranteed.
Every Metro Solo and Metro Duo comes with Metro Care — so the cabinet stays your team's problem to harvest, not to fix.
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Seed & nutrient pouches posted or dropped off every month, matched to your crop mix.
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Sensor mesh + Metro app — temperature, humidity and water alerts sent straight to your phone.
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Insurance extended to 3 years, beyond the standard 1-year parts warranty on every cabinet.
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Dedicated phone support and growing advice from our team whenever you need it.
Ten gains, one cabinet.
Zero waste
Harvest to order — nothing wilts in the walk-in.
Always fresh
Cut minutes before service.
Quality guaranteed
Metro Care, 3-year cover.
Self-sufficient
No third-party van, no Friday dependency.
Cheaper over time
One fixed line replaces a variable garnish bill.
Fewer food miles
Zero-mile greens, an ESG story.
Grown on-site
A differentiator guests can see.
Less uncertainty
Same varieties, year-round.
Fewer 86's
The premium garnish never runs out mid-service.
Anyone can run it
Automation grows it — no head-chef hours.
Metro Solo & Metro Duo
White-labelled cabinets, built in the Netherlands by our Dutch manufacturing partner, with our own support layer on top.
Metro Solo
Single lockable door, 0.75m² grow area over 3 lit shelves — fits a prep room.
From €95/month — 0% finance over 36 months (€3,420 total), with a money-back guarantee.
See Metro Solo
Metro Duo
Double sliding doors, 2m² grow area over 3 shelves, space for 12 grow trays — the bigger kitchen.
Pricing on request — Metro Solo starts from €95/month with 0% finance over 36 months.
See Metro DuoGrowing beyond the kitchen?
If a café cabinet is just the start, MetroFarms also builds autonomous shipping-container vertical farms for growers who want to scale production into a full business.
The System
Inside the autonomous container farm — IoT sensors, ML control, cloud dashboard.
See the system →ROI & Economics
Run the numbers on payback period, yield and revenue for a container farm.
Run your ROI →Pricing & Packages
Container farm packages and financing for growers scaling into a full farm business.
See pricing →People also ask
How much does a Metro Farms grow cabinet cost?
Metro Solo starts from €95/month — 0% finance over 36 months (€3,420 total), with a money-back guarantee. See Metro Solo for full details, or book a free consultation to talk through Metro Care and financing for your kitchen.
What can I grow in a Metro Farms cabinet?
Microgreens, culinary herbs, leafy greens and edible flowers — the varieties most cafés use for garnish, salads and specialty drinks. Seed and nutrient pouches for your chosen mix are posted or dropped off monthly as part of Metro Care.
How much space does a grow cabinet need?
Metro Solo has a 61 × 61cm footprint — no wider than a standard dishwasher — and stands 204cm tall. Metro Duo is larger at 118 × 78cm for cafés wanting more volume. Both are designed to fit a back-of-house corner rather than needing a dedicated room.
Who maintains the cabinet?
The cabinet largely looks after itself: a WiFi smart controller runs the light and irrigation schedule automatically, and a sensor mesh watches temperature, humidity and water. Day to day, your team just harvests. Metro Care adds monthly seed/nutrient resupply and phone support for anything else.
What if the cabinet breaks?
Every unit carries a 1-year parts warranty, and Metro Care extends that to 3 years of insurance cover, plus dedicated phone support and growing advice from our team — so a fault doesn't mean lost service or an unplanned bill.
Get a pilot cabinet in your café
Tell us about your kitchen and menu, and we'll talk through siting, crop mix and financing for a Metro Solo or Metro Duo pilot.