The Jones Foods team already supplies nearly a third of the UK’s fresh cut basil to major retailers, which are grown on Europe’s largest vertical farm in Lincolnshire.
However, they are now testing how to vertically grow berries, cut flowers and grapes at a pilot center in Bristol and hope to finally be able to grow crops in large quantities at a new site in Gloucestershire that will open this fall.
96 tennis courts
If built, the site is expected to be the largest vertical farm in the world, with a growing area equivalent to 96 tennis courts, stacked vertically. The company aims to reduce, and eliminate carbon emissions from foods consumed in the UK Season Limits Increasing the country’s food security while making profits. In 2020, nearly half of the food consumed in the UK – 46 per cent – came from imports.
Glenn Stephens, who was a former Central Wales dairy farmer before becoming head of the company’s agriculture division, said he was increasingly concerned about humanity’s impact on our planet over time, including climate change, and was happy to be involved in something he felt. well.
He noted that over-fertilizing plants was a problem. Although the fertilizers are used by Jones Foods’ farmers, it is said that it is insignificant compared to conventional farming because the fertilizers in the water system that are not absorbed by the plants are recycled, processed and then returned to the plants.
