Israeli Ingenuity: A Farm in the Supermarket Parking Lot
Dec 15, 2020 Four Israeli supermarkets sell their customers pesticide-free greens and herbs grown inside an indoor vertical farm set up in a trailer just outside their doors. By Abigail Klein Leichman, ISRAEL21c When you buy supermarket veggies, you don’t know how far they traveled or when they left the farm. And that matters because picked produce loses nutritional potency rapidly. Now, shoppers in four Israeli supermarkets can buy pesticide-free greens and herbs harvested from an indoor farm right on the premises. This unusual setup comes courtesy of Israeli agri-tech business Vertical...