Growing clean vegetables underground in London

Vegetables grown hydroponically underground, without the use of pesticides, ensuring quality and safety for users' health.

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Growing Underground is the UK’s first underground farm, which has been converted from a World War II bomb shelter into a vegetable garden. It has just signed a deal with online supermarket Ocado to bring some of its pre-packed vegetables to market.

Because of underground farming, the vegetables grown at Growing Underground are not dependent on the season or weather. Environmental conditions, pests, nutrition, etc. are strictly controlled to produce high-quality clean vegetables. Many vegetables here are in harvest season such as English mustard, broccoli shoots, pea shoots, rocket, chives, garlic, dill, coriander, purple radish, etc.

The unique farm was created by entrepreneurs Steven Dring, Richard Ballard and Chris Nelson, who are looking to drive innovation and sustainability in British farming. The project has also received enthusiastic support from celebrity chef Michel Roux Jr.

Steven Dring said supermarkets had struggled to source courgettes, broccoli and cabbage earlier this year due to cold weather in key growing regions in Spain and Italy. The deal with Ocado means supermarkets are no longer so reliant on imports and consumers will be able to buy fresh vegetables at a more reasonable cost.

"Our product features are energy-saving in production while still ensuring crop productivity and quality. We are very pleased that through cooperation with the UK's leading online supermarket, we will introduce to users healthy, clean vegetables," Mr. Dring shared.

Located 30m below Clapham High Street in South London, Growing Underground covers an area of ​​nearly 700m2, growing 20 types of vegetables in old bomb shelters. The farm is hydroponic, without soil, using a high-tech water recycling system and energy-saving LED lighting. This allows the producer to control all pests, creating the right environmental conditions for each type of plant.

According to VNE