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Could this be the future of farming? Inside Europe's biggest vertical farm
The whole point of a vertical farm is to create an environment where you can grow plants, stacked on top of each other in high density. The idea being that you can grow your salads or peas somewhere close to the cities where they're consumed.
These futuristic farm units are the brainwave of Tristan Fischer, a serial entrepreneur who has spent much of his career working on renewable energy in its various guises. In theory, one should be able to grow plants hydroponically - in other words with a mineral substrate instead of soil - in a controlled environment and thereby increase the yield dramatically. Vertical farming promises, if it can make the numbers add up, to change the equation, dramatically increasing agricultural productivity in the coming decades.
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