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Vertical farms and the urban environment

The vertical farming industry often talks about what goes on inside the facility, but less often do we look at the outside, the building actually housing the farm.

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How vertical farming can help save our rivers

Agriculture can put pressure on rivers through poor fertiliser use - an advantage of vertical farming is that it can carefully control fertilisers, recycle water and prevent runoff.

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Foresight invests in Harvest London

Foresight Group, the sustainability-led alternative investment manager, has reached an agreement with Harvest London to aid the expansion of the vertical farming industry.

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London vertical farming company becomes a B Corp

Harvest London, which grows crops in a converted industrial unit in East London to supply restaurants and food businesses across the Capital, has achieved B Corporation certification with the highest rating of any vertical farming company in the world.

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Minister visits start-up growing sustainable food in East London

Small Business Minister Paul Scully on Thursday [1 July] visited a vertical farm in Leyton, East London, to see how technology can help make the food system more sustainable, as the UK prepares to host the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in November this year.

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Bring on the post-Brexit vertical farming revolution

As the UK and the EU stretch out yet another week of “will they or won’t they?” over a trade deal, like a painfully unromantic episode of Neighbours (no jokes about Australian models, please), businesses are not only trying to plan for what happens in January, but also questioning how much we should rely on goods moving seamlessly in and out of the country.

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The UK’s food system isn’t resilient, and it needs to be

Luckily, technology offers a way to reduce reliance on imports, and make food production more sustainable.

Resilience. As a personal attribute, it’s been talked about a lot over the past year as the coronavirus pandemic has tested all of us mentally. But it’s also the word that has great relevance for something as essential to human life as good mental health: food……

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