SuperCloset Hydroponics
SuperCloset, also known as SuperPonics, is accredited by the Better Business Bureau and maintains a perfect A+ rating, surpassing any other company in the hydroponics industry. SuperCloset is known as the leading manufacturer of Automated Hydroponic Grow Systems and Grow Boxes in the world. We have won several awards for our innovating and revolutionary designs and are continually researching ways to build upon our already successful systems! SuperCloset is dedicated to spreading the incredible advantages of growing hydroponically and harvesting local and sustainable foods and herbs. Growing your own fruits, vegetables, herbs, and spices is one of the best ways to help our environment, as well as your health.
Based in beautiful San Francisco, California, SuperCloset is home to the best Indoor Hydroponic Grow Cabinets and Vertical Growing Systems in the World. San Francisco provides the perfect environment for SuperCloset; combining innovative and imaginative ideologies with progressive methods of harvesting local, sustainable, and organic products! We’re right at home in the Bay!
Founded by CEO Kip Andersen in 2002, literally in his garage, SuperCloset has quickly become the industry leader within the Hydroponic Cabinet and Indoor Gardening Community. We have a highly trained and seasoned crew that works around the clock to ensure the highest quality cabinets and fully automated SuperPonics and VerticalPonics systems possible.
In addition to being the ONLY Better Business Bureau accredited member with an A+ rating in our industry (as of October 2010), we are also the winner of 2008′s Best Cabinet of the Year award, Best Overall System in 2009, and Best Budget Grow Box for our SuperLocker in 2010. With all of these accolades, our reputation quite obviously precedes us. We work 1-on-1 with all of our customers ensuring that their needs and expectations are exceeded with effectiveness and efficiency.
How else is SuperCloset changing the world?
SuperCloset’s goals include assisting cities and towns with the production of a local, sustainable, and organic food supply by utilizing its expertise and and knowledge of SuperPonics, VerticalPonics, rooftop farming, DHA Algal Oil production, organic farming, community composting, peaceful and sustainable vegetarian aquaponics, and recycled rain harvesting. This synergism will bloom and thrive outdoors as well as in massive indoor greenhouses, growing bountiful quantities of fruits, vegetables, herbs, and spices, which can serve as supply for cities’ local grocery stores, farmers markets, homes, and restaurants. The ability to feed entire populations with these methods is a feasible possibility and it is SuperCloset’s mission to turn this notion into a reality.
SuperCloset donates a portion of company profits to various non-profit organizations, with an emphasis on those that help animals and support peaceful sustainable living. Animals United Movement (A.U.M) is a new non-profit, founded in 2010, which promotes peaceful and sustainable living, and serves as a voice for all animals, focusing mainly on farm animals. Look out for their new documentary that follows several journeys that includes two self-proclaimed meat eaters adopting a vegetarian diet for 45 days to determine the impact that it has on them, as well as the world. Stay tuned for updates on the documentary as well as other giant SuperPonic urban garden developments. Please contact your local politician and local decision maker to set up your very own community urban garden. We support you in your pursuit of becoming one of the first fully self-sustainable town/housing developments in the United States!
SuperCloset also supports FarmSanctuary.org, the University of California San Francisco Women and Children’s Hospital, and The American Heart Assocation. More information can be found at:
Who works for SuperCloset?
Kip – Chief Executive Officer – kip@supercloset.com
Kip’s background includes years of horticulture design and experience. After graduating from California Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo with a degree in Industrial Technology, and after some film school in San Francisco, Kip had a great idea for a company: “How do I design and manufacture the absolute best Hydroponic Cabinets in the World?” He quickly began his research and traveled throughout Europe seeking out cutting edge and innovative equipment, technology, and growing wisdom in an effort to create the ideal, indoor environment for thriving plants. After much research and practice, he found that by fusing several hydroponic methods into one system, he achieved incredible results and had a much greater percentage of success. In addition to this major breakthrough, Kip discovered many other ways to drastically improve upon existing methods of growing indoors. He then incorporated all of his amazing discoveries into a single Grow Box, and the SuperCloset was born.
Kip’s and Supercloset’s main purpose is to offer the absolute best grow boxes, grow rooms, and hydroponic systems in the world, which will produce the greatest results for all of our super customers. Along with excellent customer support and the industry’s longest 3 year free warranty, it is our mission to make your growing experience blissful and bountiful.
Kip is also an award winning art furniture designer. His next piece is called the “Yin Yang Loveseat”, which will be included in the same line as his last piece, “Cube Rocker”, which can be seen by clicking the following link:
On another note, Kip is an active vegan, yogi, animal rights proponent, and filmmaker. Please experience some of his favorite links:
www.farmsanctuary.org, www.happycow.net.
His favorite 1 hour movie called “Peaceable Kingdom”
http://www.webislam.com/?idv=1387
His new non-profit (A.U.M.) is accepting proposals for grants and programs designed to aid animals in need. If you live in the Bay Area, please send an email. He is looking for help editing A.U.M.’s new documentary, which is a wonderful story about starting an urban farm at an assisted living home, titled “Holy Cow”. Clips will be available soon, stay tuned!
Rory - Chief Operating Officer -rory@supercloset.com
Rory Kagan joined forces with the Super Team in 2010. Rory instantly fell in love with SuperCloset after seeing their line of Grow Boxes, Grow Rooms, and SuperPonic systems, as well as meeting the crew, at the Maximum Yield Indoor Gardening Trade Show at Fort Mason, in San Francisco. He immediately went home and sent in his resume. As fate would have it, Rory is now the proud new Chief Operating Officer of SuperCloset. He is originally from New Jersey, graduated from Cornell University in upstate New York, and then decided to see if the grass was really greener on the other side of the fence, in California. Well, it must have been, because over ten years later, he has clearly laid down roots. He still lives in San Francisco, but now with his wife, and beautiful daughter. Rory has committed to doing everything he can to help SuperCloset blossom and grow to its full amazing potential. He has a great interest in hydroponics and is always building upon his vast knowledge of this exciting industry. When not busy with Super Responsibilities, Rory likes to spend his time with family and friends. Attending live shows, hiking, biking, and woodworking are some of his favorite past times.
Check out his video series “Growing with Rory” by clicking the following link:
Nick – Director of Production - nick@supercloset.com
Nick hails from Portland, but moved to Colorado after high school and lived there for over 6 years. He moved to California about 10 years ago, traveling throughout various parts of the state. In his own words, his background is in “Everything.” Painter, ski shop owner, construction, coffee shop, you name it, he’s done it. This broad array of knowledge, along with his expert craftsmanship have made him the ideal Director of Production and a tremendous asset to Supercloset. His unique background provides him with a fresh perspective on hydroponics and indoor gardening. He is truly obsessed with making SuperCloset products the absolute best they can be. He is a master on the slopes, enjoys the thrill and exercise of mountain biking, and the serenity of gardening.
Erik – Director of Business Development - erik@supercloset.com
As SuperCloset’s first employee, Erik helped Kip drive his vision to fruition. From the humble beginnings in Kip’s garage to the current 17,000 sf warehouse, from where we ship over 150 systems a month, Erik is most proud of the ability of the Super Team to effectively innovate products that consistently exceed the growing needs of our customers. Originally from Santa Monica, Erik is an avid surfer, snowboarder, golfer, and has a damn good, brilliant green thumb. He has a Bachelor’s in Natural Resource Management and an MBA in Business Management. Erik’s church is the Cleveland Browns and he will verbally take you to “BelieveLand” if you give him the opportunity.
Tyler – Sales/Accounting – tyler@supercloset.com
A northern California transplant, Tyler moved to San Francisco a few years ago for a change of pace and to continue his education. Formerly a Production Manager with a prominent printing company, Tyler when in search of “greener pastures,” which he of course found at SuperCloset. Tyler is an indispensable “Jack of All Trades” here at SuperCloset. He wears many hats, as he is an integral member of our sales team, spear heads our accounting department, and still somehow has time left to schedule shipping. He handles all of these responsibilities with a “calm cool” that only he could muster. Tyler has been a percussionist for over 9 years and enjoys the outdoors, hiking his way through summer music festivals and enjoying our Northern California coastlines.
Rob – Multimedia Production Manager - rob@supercloset.com
Rob comes to us from the land of corn and appreciates everyday he gets to live in the wonder land that is the Bay Area. Exploration and adventure are his activities of choice, preferred by bicycle or motorcycle, and always with a camera in hand. If you have seen a SuperCloset ad, commercial, video, or brochure, he is the mastermind behind its creation. Rob has USB cables for fingertips and is SuperCloset’s technological connection to the outside world. Due to this, and the fact that he procures our fine coffee, he is an indispensable part of our team. Sam Cooke’s Live at the Harlem Square Club is his favorite album of all time. “Don’t fight it, just feel it. It’s better in the wind.”
Last but not least, Fred, Carlos, Perry, Daniel, Stephan and the rest of the crew actually build the systems we all love so much! None of this would be possible without their efforts. They work around the clock to ensure the timely completion of only the highest quality products and services for our customers and growing partners. Masters of their crafts, they truly are the backbone of SuperCloset.
