Vertical farm helps bring a taste of the Med

Step inside the windowless warehouse of Jones Food Company, though — into the 28C heat and 75 per cent humidity of Europe's largest vertical farm — and, well, it's still not easily confused with the Mediterranean.

But that's because you're not a basil plant.

Two years after this factory was built it is now able to grow much of Britain's basil. Here, the plants are carefully nurtured in conditions that mimic the finest basil fields in the world, assuming that those fields had a pink sun and were stacked in rows 17 high in a light industrial estate in Lincolnshire.

However unlikely the environment, they are also nurtured, advocates argue, in a way that points to a more sustainable, and perhaps cheaper, way of farming.

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Source: The Times