GrowUp’s history
2023
Unbeleafable range of salads launch in selected Tesco stores
2023
Fresh Leaf Co. the UK’s first vertically farmed bagged salad launches into selected Iceland Stores
2023
The Leaf Lab, GrowUp’s new state of the art innovation and research centre opens, located at Bourn Quarter, a Sustainable Business Park west of Cambridge.
2022
GrowUp certifies as a B Corp! The average UK business scores 50 points. The pass mark is 80. GrowUp scored 104.7, passing with flying colours.
2022
Works starts on GrowUp’s next farm in Sandwich, Kent to bring fresher, longer-lasting salads to supermarket shelves year-round
2020
The Recipe Centre, GrowUp’s high-care development lab opens at the Agri-Epi Centre on the Harper Adams University campus
The Recipe Centre closed in January 2023
2019
GrowUp joins Vescor Group, a spin-out from Estover Energy
2018
GrowUp is invited to present at the prestigious Parabere Forum
2018
GrowUp’s energy team, as Estover Energy, helps Discovery Park, one of Europe’s leading science and technology parks, to decarbonise its energy supply by opening the £160m Kent renewable energy plant
2017
GrowUp is featured on the first series of Nadiya’s British Food Adventure
2014-2017
GrowUp delivers delicious food to consumers, shops and restaurants across London
2017
GrowUp wins the regional award, and is shortlisted for the Shell Springboard national finals
2017
GrowUp’s energy team, as Estover Energy, helps the North East’s specialist pharmaceutical cluster to decarbonise its energy supply by opening the £143m Cramlington renewable energy plant
2017
Final harvest at Unit 84, and the search for a larger, more energy-efficient site begins. Move from aquaponics to hydroponics, no more fish
2017
Professor Brian Cox visits Unit 84 on behalf of The Royal Society
2016
GrowUp is invited onto the Unreasonable Impact Programme
2016
GrowUp is a finalist in the BBC Food and Farming awards and features on the BBC’s Farming Today
2016
GrowUp’s energy team, as Estover Energy, helps The Macallan Whisky Distillery to decarbonise its energy supply by opening the £74m Speyside renewable energy plant
2016
GrowUp wins Best London Leaves at the Urban Food Awards
2015
GrowUp develops its first bespoke salad mix for a London restaurant wholesaler
2014
GrowUp opens Unit 84, the UK’s first commercial-scale aquaponic vertical farm, in east London
2013
100 people join us for the Big Fish Cook Off in London
2013
GrowUp joins Climate KIC accelerator programme for cleantech businesses
2013
The GrowUp Box provides fresh produce for London’s iconic Borough Market
2013
GrowUp is founded by Kate Hofman and Tom Webster, launching one of the UK’s first Kickstarter campaigns to build The GrowUp Box
