About Us

GSS Group was founded in 2014, originally as a team of college students with a dream to build hydroponic towers in East Africa. After competing and winning a business plan competition, the team grew lettuce using DIY PVC vertical hydroponic towers. After an unexpected shift in governmental power, it was time to pack up and head back. 

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Returning to their respective homes the team dispersed and Danielle Dozier, CEO of GSS Group, partnered with a farm in Northwest Arkansas to replicate what she had created in Ethiopia. As an existing NFT hydroponic farm producing leafy greens, the vertical tower design was used to maximize production. 

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The idea to utilize this dead space grew into a reality when Dozier was awarded the SBIR Phase 1 from the USDA in 2017. Phase II was awarded to GSS Group in 2020 opening the team to grow by two for the commercialization process for the HydroFresh™ vertical hydroponic tower.