With its beet fields as far as the eye can see, Picardy is a land of agriculture. Winter obliges: in the vegetable farms, everything is in slow motion. But in hangars in the middle of the industrial zone of Château-Thierry (Aisne), a farm is running at full speed. It is a vertical farm. It is heated, automated, sanitized. Here, no mud, because no earth. No snow but no sun either. And not farmers, but engineers.
Oxygen, humidity level, light: everything is computer controlled. 16 hours a day of intense sun and 8 hours at night for photosynthesis, heating … a lot of energy is spent to have summer all year round. Even the wind is imitated, because it is a positive stress for the plant. The plants grow in water, fed by a house cocktail of mineral salts and vitamins, adapted to each variety.
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