WELCOME TO NEMO’S GARDEN
A decade ago, Luca Gamberini’s father, Sergio, decided to pursue what seemed to Luca like a madcap scheme to grow plants under the sea.
The Gamberini family business, Ocean Reef Group, specialised in diving and scuba equipment. Agriculture was not part of the picture. But after the idea to plant underwater crops emerged from a dinner between Sergio – who had a passion for gardening, as well as scuba diving – and a farmer friend of his, he decided to try it. “It was kind of a bet, a fun joke,” says Gamberini. “And my father was like, ‘hey, you know what, I’m actually going to try that.’ And he did. And it worked.”
To start, they used small,
