Agriculture, Food and Beverage

Urban grit and pink lights: this is London's take on farming

Farmer Erik Groszyk holds a rack of Tuscan Kale growing inside his hydroponic climate controlled farm, one of 10 repurposed 320-square-foot metal shipping containers where entrepreneur farmers enrolled in the "Square Roots" farming program are growing and selling a variety of greens in the parking lot of a former Pfizer factory in the Brooklyn Borough of New York City, U.S. on May 5, 2017. Picture taken May 5, 2017.  REUTERS/Mike Segar - RTX396SX

GrowUp Urban Farms are showing that there is such a thing as a sustainable, industrialised food system. Image: REUTERS/Mike Segar

Lin Taylor
Journalist, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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