Project underway to grow bananas ...in Belfast!
Hopes of growing bananas in Belfast might sound… well… bananas. But scoff all you like, because an ambitious group of local history buffs say it has been done before and hopefully will be will a fixture of the city again soon. Portview Trade Centre in East Belfast and National Museums NI have developed plans to create ‘Banana Block’ – a banana plantation and living museum in East Belfast. They will work alongside pioneering agri-food business Mash Direct to cultivate the crop. Belfast bananas Portview, formerly the home of Strand Spinning Mill, once the largest flax tow spinning mil...
Source: agriland.ie