Automation enables UK farm to vertically grow vegetables

Posted on 7 Sep 2017 by Jonny Williamson
Food will be grown in a stacking system in a new building at Invergowrie - image courtesy of JHI

An indoor vertical farm being built near Dundee is expected to be growing salad leaves and herbs vertically by the end of the year.

Food will be grown in a stacking system in a new building at Invergowrie – image courtesy of JHI The futuristic construction nearing completion at the James Hutton Institute (JHI) at Invergowrie will be the UK’s first commercially viable vertical farm due to automation. It is being built by Intelligent Growth…

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