Pioneering Sustainable Agriculture Through Innovation
At Haven Biofoundry, we are committed to revolutionizing agriculture by developing resilient, high-yield crops that preserve environmental health. Our mission centers on sustainability, cutting-edge research, and fostering innovation that benefits both farmers and the planet.
Haven creates the next generation of crops that can biologically produce their own nitrogen fertilizers. This nature-inspired solution eliminates both the production cost, supply chain risk, and pollution linked to nitrogen fertilization, while maintaining yields.
Bioengineering Crops with built-in nitrogen fertilization
Fertilizers are the hidden backbone behind our global food supply. While effective, today’s fertilizer infrastructure creates global risk that is subject to supply chain disruptions and price fluctuations, combined with significant damaging ecological effects. Haven’s mission is simple: to overcome these challenges by enabling crops to fertilize themselves.
Some microbes can convert nitrogen from the air directly into fertilizer—a process called biological nitrogen fixation. Haven is a nature-inspired solution that brings this capability to crops in a more scalable, completely novel way: by integrating nitrogen fixation at the cellular level, fertilizer is produced directly inside the plant, with no external inputs required at the farm.
Impact
Synthetic nitrogen fertilizers generate more than one gigaton of CO2-equivalent emissions per year—on par with the entire aviation industry. Haven’s self-fertilizing crops will mitigate these emissions, while stopping a major source of pollution, as nitrogen fertilizer leaches from farmland into waterways, causing dead zones in critical aquatic environments impacting fish stock and drinking water quality. Alongside these benefits, Haven offers farmers significant cost savings with no changes to farm operations, unlocking resiliency for farmers and greater food security globally.