Lufa Farms is using greenhouse technology in an indoor farm setting to maximize year-round local food production.
MONTREAL , May 11, 2023 /CNW/ - Lufa Farms, a company dedicated to creating a more direct and local food system, is announcing the opening of its first indoor farm. Located in the Saint-Laurent borough of Montreal, the former Sears headquarters have been transformed into a unique urban food ecosystem that combines the world's largest rooftop greenhouse, a distribution centre, and now a new indoor farm to feed thousands of customers each week.
Featuring the Green Automation technology that is typically used in greenhouses, this urban farm is equipped with a single-level hydroponic growing system and a thousand energy-efficient LED lights. The site is designed to demonstrate the viability of low-cost indoor agriculture, providing optimized light, energy, and nutrients to a variety of crops without fossils.
With more than 20,000 portions harvested a day at full potential, this polyculture farm is currently growing lettuce, spinach, celery, basil, kohlrabi, fennel, and watercress.
"Having over a decade of experience in urban agriculture, we realized the importance of providing plants with ideal growing conditions," says Lufa Farms co-founder and co-CEO Mohamed Hage. "Our challenge was to build a simple and energy-efficient indoor farm that compares in cost to traditional greenhouse growing."
Products from Lufa Farms' indoor farm are currently available exclusively to subscribers through their online Marketplace.
Lufa Farms' mission is to create a better food system by growing food sustainably on city rooftops and partnering with hundreds of farmers and food makers, to provide customers with fresh, local, responsible food via their online Marketplace. For more information about Lufa Farms, please visit their website.
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