🌿 About Kiri Martin

I’m Kiri Martin, a plant nerd based in Ontario, Canada, where half the year is too cold to grow food outdoors. I’ve always been passionate about growing as much of my own food as possible, but living here meant I had to find another way.

🌱 Where it started

Growing food has been part of my life for as long as I can remember—from helping in my grandad’s garden on the Isle of Wight, to harvesting apples in my nan’s backyard in London, to small backyard experiments of my own.

But everything changed in December 2013, when a massive ice storm left us without power for days.

During that time, I was trying to keep everything running—warmth, food, and even our hedgehog, Cupcake, who needed careful temperature control to stay safe. It was a wake-up call about how fragile our everyday systems really are.

🌿 A shift in perspective

That experience made me realize how disconnected we’ve become from growing and producing our own food. I became determined to learn how to become more self-sufficient.

Since then, I’ve transformed my outdoor space into productive gardens and spent years experimenting with growing food in every available space—pots, raised beds, and vertical setups.

But when winter hit, I still needed a way to grow food indoors.

Close-up of a woman with blonde hair wearing glasses and a baseball cap that says "Grow with the flow." She is wearing a plaid shirt and sitting in an office or lab environment with shelves containing various supplies and a black computer monitor behind her.
A ceramic pig-shaped object on the left, a small plant in a white container, a glass spray bottle, and sunflower flowers on the right.

💧 Discovering hydroponics

That’s when I found hydroponics.

I started with one system—the AeroGarden Farm—and quickly fell down the rabbit hole. Today, I run 12 hydroponic systems in my home, and my office has become a hybrid workspace and indoor grow room.

I now grow herbs, lettuce, peppers, tomatoes, and more year-round, often harvesting dinner just steps from my kitchen.

🔬 What I do now

Over the past 10+ years, I’ve tested, broken, and refined almost every indoor growing method I could get my hands on.

Through my book, courses, and content, I share what actually works—covering systems like AeroGarden, Click & Grow, Rise Gardens, and DIY Kratky setups, along with the real ups and downs of indoor growing.

My goal is simple: to help people skip the overwhelm and start growing food with confidence.

🌱 Final thought

Whether you think you have a “black thumb,” live in a small space, or just want to grow more of your own food year-round…

you can start growing food indoors.

And I’ll help you get there.