Indoor farming is exploding across Canada, and pushing into new areas such as urban buildings and green space
It starts with a couple of seeds, sown into some soil and resting upon a conveyer belt.
Indoor farming is exploding across Canada, and pushing into new areas such as urban buildings and, in Kinghaven’s case, green space. According to the 2021 census of agriculture, farms with food crops grown under cover, excluding mushrooms, increased from 824 to 1,254 in Canada between 2016 to 2021.
“Everything we buy in the stores has already been sitting in a refrigerated truck or different distribution centres for a month. It’s been in transit for a long time,” he said. “And there’s just no capability within our province to produce that crop on a 12 month basis. It’s very hard to grow lettuce in the snowbank.”
Chris Voorberg, chief executive of Foothill Greenhouses in the Holland Marsh, said his family’s cucumber farm has been using hydroponics since the 1980s. Producing almost eight million cucumbers a year, his 15-acre greenhouse can output seven to eight times what a farm in a field on the same acreage would produce, in Mr. Voorberg’s estimate.
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