The aponix vertical barrel takes standard horticulture equipment to the 3rd dimension enabling decentralized hyperlocal edible plant production without the need to build problematic rack systems. The system utilizes the shape of large vertical cylinders (the 'barrels') that are assembled by stacking ringsegments to variable height and at the same time configuring the planting distance of diverse crops by using the different available aponix plant adapter lego-pieces.

Edible plants need to be growing much closer to the end consumers using modern plant cultivation methods like CEA (Controlled Environment Agriculture) in order to get fresher, much more healthy and diverse edibles, save many resources, reduce waste and also bring food production back to the city where it will also play a key role in more sustainable circular economy integrations in city material streams and make urban areas more resilient.

Aponix provides alternative modular infrastructure elements that can be used to set up soilless grow spaces in urban areas in 3D making professional horticulture techniques available also on smaller footprints. With that edible plants can be grown closer to consumers and be distributed in new ways with the effects: less waste, fresher more nutritious plant based food, social impact doing it together, educational impact since it is visible and needs to be organized in a more co-operative fashion.

Materials are raw materials with long lifetime (cradle-to-cradle principle). Farms can use natural sunlight (most problematic bottleneck is energy consumption when lighting is used). Multi purpose components can grow plants in new distribution models and new spaces unused before. Due to proximity to the consumers of the products there will also be strong educational and social side effects.