Canada: Montreal Shapes the Urban Farm of the Future
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” Hage said in the Green Interview. “Essentially, you’re picking up a box of vegetables and food that was harvested and made custom order to you the same day.”
By Rosemary Cairns
The Energy Mix
January 29, 2025
Excerpt:
This is urban farming for the 21st century—growing food where people live, growing what they want, and growing it more sustainably, saving water and energy. Lufa, which built the world’s first commercial rooftop farm in 2011 and now operates five of them, wants to spread the concept to cities around the world to revolutionize food production.
“With each new urban farm, we hold ourselves to an ever-higher standard of sustainability and technical ingenuity growing dozens of vegetables, greens, and herbs hydroponically,” Lufa says. Every week, it assembles customized baskets and delivers them to a network of pick-up points across Quebec, or straight to customers’ doors.
Lufa also partners with hundreds of local farmers and food makers to provide their products through an online marketplace, helping to develop the local economy. “Of our hundreds of partners, only three are not from Quebec,” Hage said. “We believe in local products.”
That echoes the Lebanese village where he grew up. “Bread was always warm when you bought it. Meat came off the cow: you went to the butcher and he just would cut up the cut of meat that you needed. Sometimes there was no meat because he didn’t cut a cow that day. I am lucky enough to know what food was like and what food tasted like, and what we’re trying to do here is recreate that experience: better food, local food from people you know.”
Sadly, though, Wardanieh, the Lebanese village where Hage grew up, is not like that anymore. People are growing tomatoes, eggplant, and cucumbers in massive farms, using a tremendous amount of pesticide and imported labour and selling their food to food terminals, but they’re not making a living. For every one good year, they have four bad years.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/canada-montreal-shapes-the-urban-farm-of-the-future/
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