Food & Drink
Experience the future of farming at Geoje’s Smart Farm Café
haps Magazine Korea
July 28, 2025
(Geoje City)
In the heart of Geoje-si, a groundbreaking dining concept is reshaping the way people think about food and farming.
The newly opened Smart Farm Café, located on the second floor of the Geoje Local Nuri Center (54 Junggok 1-ro), offers a unique experience where diners can watch their salad greens grow just meters away before they’re harvested, prepared, and served—often within minutes.
Billed as a “zero-mile” dining experience, the café eliminates traditional food distribution entirely.
Inside, customers are surrounded by a lush vertical smart farm visible through transparent glass walls, where eight varieties of European lettuce grow year-round in a high-tech, fully controlled environment.
From farm to kitchen to table, the journey spans just 10 meters, delivering unmatched freshness, flavor, and crunch in every bite.
The farm operates in a sealed sterile environment that blocks pollutants such as fine dust and acid rain.
Free from pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides, the facility uses advanced LED lighting and automated systems to regulate temperature, humidity, and nutrients 24/7. The result: sustainable, climate-resilient agriculture that produces premium-quality greens no matter the season.
Beyond freshness, the Smart Farm Café is a working model of eco-friendly innovation. Compared to traditional farming, smart farms use 98% less water and 90% less land, while drastically cutting carbon emissions by eliminating long-distance transport. Every salad becomes an opportunity to taste the future and help the planet.
The café’s menu includes crisp, flavorful salads and gourmet sandwiches featuring beef steak, bulgogi, and other ingredients served atop the just-picked lettuce.
Visitors can continue the experience on other floors of the building, exploring the local food direct sales store downstairs or joining a cooking class upstairs, making it a multi-sensory journey through the present and future of Geoje agriculture.
Whether you’re a food lover, sustainability advocate, or curious traveler, the Smart Farm Café offers a one-of-a-kind taste of what dining, and farming, could look like in the years to come.