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The future of food: inside the world's largest urban farm – built on a rooftop
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2340" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2020/jul/08/the-future-of-food-inside-the-worlds-largest-urban-farm-built-on-a-rooftop" target="_blank"><strong>The future of food: inside the world's largest urban farm – built on a rooftop - The Guardian</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>In Paris, urban farmers are trying a soil-free approach to agriculture that uses less space and fewer resources. Could it help cities face the threats to our food supplies? </strong></p><p></p><p>On top of a striking new exhibition hall in the southern 15th arrondissement of Paris, the world’s largest urban rooftop farm has started to bear fruit. Strawberries, to be precise: small, intensely flavoured and resplendently red.</p><p></p><p>They sprout abundantly from cream-coloured plastic columns. Pluck one out to peer inside and you see the columns are completely hollow, the roots of dozens of strawberry plants dangling into thin air.</p><p></p><p>From identical vertical columns nearby burst row upon row of lettuces; near those are aromatic basil, sage and peppermint. Opposite, in narrow, horizontal trays packed <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2002/mar/17/gardens" target="_blank">not with soil but coco coir</a> (coconut fibre), grow heirloom and cherry tomatoes, shiny aubergines and brightly coloured chards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2340, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2020/jul/08/the-future-of-food-inside-the-worlds-largest-urban-farm-built-on-a-rooftop'][B]The future of food: inside the world's largest urban farm – built on a rooftop - The Guardian[/B][/URL] [B]In Paris, urban farmers are trying a soil-free approach to agriculture that uses less space and fewer resources. Could it help cities face the threats to our food supplies? [/B] On top of a striking new exhibition hall in the southern 15th arrondissement of Paris, the world’s largest urban rooftop farm has started to bear fruit. Strawberries, to be precise: small, intensely flavoured and resplendently red. They sprout abundantly from cream-coloured plastic columns. Pluck one out to peer inside and you see the columns are completely hollow, the roots of dozens of strawberry plants dangling into thin air. From identical vertical columns nearby burst row upon row of lettuces; near those are aromatic basil, sage and peppermint. Opposite, in narrow, horizontal trays packed [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2002/mar/17/gardens']not with soil but coco coir[/URL] (coconut fibre), grow heirloom and cherry tomatoes, shiny aubergines and brightly coloured chards. [/QUOTE]
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