Our Story

Vellbrook started with a washout.

A few years ago, a Gulf Coast hurricane tore through our area and stripped the soil on our property right down to the clay. The dirt we'd built our garden in was simply gone.

For the next five years, we fought to get it back — truckloads of soil and manure, money we didn't love spending, and constant pests. After all of it, the garden still struggled. My wife runs our little homestead, the chickens and the growing, and she refused to give up on feeding our family from our own land. I'm the tinkerer; I've always leaned toward solving problems with engineering instead of muscle.

So one day we stopped fighting the ground and asked a different question: what if we didn't need it at all?

That led us to hydroponics — and to the soilless growing methods NASA developed to grow food where there's no soil at all: space. We took that same idea, made it tough enough for the outdoors and simple enough for anyone, and built a vertical tower that grows a real harvest without a single shovel of dirt.

That tower is Vellbrook. It's the thing we wish we'd had five years ago — and we built it so that when the ground gives out on you, whether it's a flood, bad soil, no space, or relentless pests, you can grow anyway.

— The Vellbrook family, Gulf Coast