Farms: The farm in a tunnel 100ft beneath London
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Two entrepreneurs Richard Ballard and Steven Dring have set up a 2.5 acre crop farm below the Northern Line, near Clapham North in London. The first test garden, which has been up and running for a few months as part of a commercial project called Growing Underground, backed by television chef Michel Roux junior. The "farm" itself consists of table-height beds of hemp in which salads and herbs are being grown hydroponically. That means nutrient-rich water floods the beds once a day before being slowly drained away, with no soil involved in the process. Above each bed are strips of special low energy LED lights. They use special low energy LED bulbs and an integrated hydroponics system to grow a range of micro-herbs, shoots, miniature vegetables and other delicacies to be sold to restaurants, supermarkets and wholesalers The advantage of being underground is it is insulated, so the temperature can be kept stable and the rent is considerably less than if they used on a normal warehouse in central London. The pair plan to grow a range of herbs, shoots, vegetables to sell to restaurants. Get the latest headlines http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ Subscribe to The Telegraph http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=telegraphtv Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/telegraph.co.uk Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/telegraph Follow us on Google+ https://plus.google.com/102891355072777008500/ Telegraph.co.uk and YouTube.com/TelegraphTV are websites of The Daily Telegraph, the UK's best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.
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my name is London
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YOU HELP SORROW STRICKEN POOR FARMER TO STAND GOD BY THEIR SIDE, THEY FOUND GOD AS A RELIEVER OF THEIR SORROW, THEY SOWED OF SEED IN THE FIELD IN THE HEAT OF SUN, WHEN THEIR BODY WAS SMEARING WITH SOIL, WHEN FARMER SQUATTED IN LONG TIME IN THE FIELD FOR SOWED THE SEED, IN SQUATTED WAY FOR A LONG TIME THEY FEELING HARDSHIP, ALL FARMER'S BODY ARE CONSTITUTE BY GOD, GOD DEVELOP FARMER BODY BY EARTH, WATER, FIRE, AIR, ETHER, MIND, INTELLECT, EGO, SO YOU HELP THEM TO STAND GOD BY THEIR SIDE AND TAKE THEIR HARDSHIP , AND GOD GIVE THEM REJUVENATE, I SEND YOU MY SONG IN my you tube , MY SONG FILE NAME IS MOV 34
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You guys need to look into aquaponics!
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How is this Zero Carbon?? Lights, pumps, ventilation units all require energy to run, but there was no mention of a power source. Surely a renewable energy source would've been mentioned if it's supposed to be zero carbon.
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Fantástico aproveitamento....que a natureza nos oferece....aprendam portugueses...
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Look at all this anti-whitism. In the '60s, anti-whites forced ALL and ONLY White countries to bring in millions of non-whites.
Then anti-whites forced White people to "integrate" with those non-whites or face penalties for being "naziswhowanttokill6millionjews."
Now anti-whites are praising and counting down the days until White children are minorities and extinct EVERYWHERE. That makes it genocide.
"Diversity" is a codeword for White Genocide. -
can this be used in space?
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Japan has been doing this type of farming for almost 2 decades. There are rice fields under some businesses in Tokyo.
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you can grow so much weed there holy crap
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What about the London rats?They will be eating ,peeing and crapping all over the plants .Rat urine contains deadly a virus,
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weed ? US has the best .
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Nb
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cool, why not mushrooms?