Our Story
Two Founders. One Farm.
We grow it for you, on our farm or yours. Rooted in the Lowcountry. Hydroponic produce and managed towers, built in Charleston.
How It Started
Why Gingerly Farms
Gingerly Farms started because Charleston deserved a closer relationship with the food on its plates. Not shipped from across the country. Not dependent on weather or season. Grown here, delivered the same day.
We began with hydroponic flood tables on our property. That works. It produces consistent volume year-round and it feeds the restaurants we already deliver to. Then we started thinking about a different problem: what if the herbs didn't have to travel at all? What if a tower grew on the patio of your favorite restaurant while you ate? What if you walked out to your own backyard and cut basil for dinner? That's how the Gingerly Tower came to be.
Today, we're three things at once: a wholesale farm, a managed tower service for restaurants, and a managed tower service for homes. The first one is the workhorse. The Tower is the experience. All of it is Charleston.
Hydroponics is the foundation. The Tower is what people see. The Lowcountry is who we're building for. Everything else, we figure out as it comes.
The Team
Meet the Founders
Fulton Williams
Horticulture and Tower Operations
Fulton runs the growing. Flood tables on the farm, towers in the field, the planting calendar, the cultivar choices, the daily pH and EC checks that keep both halves of the operation alive. If a plant is thriving anywhere a Gingerly tag is on, Fulton put it there.
Ean Lawrence
Systems, Customer Experience, and Scaling
Ean runs everything around the growing. The intake calls, the service routes, the invoicing, the first-visit walkthrough at a new install. If the path between the farm and your kitchen needs to work right the first time, Ean built that part.
What We Believe
Built On
We Do the Hard Part
The growing is hard, and we've done the work. Our customers don't have to think about pH or EC or replanting cycles. They get the herbs. We carry the rest.
We Don't Oversell
The Tower at a restaurant, the install in a home, the box on the loading dock. Each one looks exactly as serious as it is, no more. We don't puff up what we do, and we don't undersell it either.
Coastal Roots
Built in Charleston. Rooted in the Lowcountry. Every customer is someone we could run into at the market on Saturday, and that shapes how we work.