The company has begun growing lettuce in shipping containers outside its stores in Malmö and Helsingborg, in Sweden, and hopes to begin serving the produce in its onsite restaurants in the near future. The containers each contain up to 3,600 heads of lettuce. The system uses no soil, herbicides or pesticides, and consumes up to 90% less water than growing crops in a field. The plants, which are provided with nutrients from food waste, grow quickly due to the use of LED lights powered by renewable energy. The farming system is provided by OX2, part of the Bonbio group.
The company has begun growing lettuce in shipping containers outside its stores in Malmö and Helsingborg, in Sweden, and hopes to begin serving the produce in its onsite restaurants in the near future. The containers each contain up to 3,600 heads of lettuce. The system uses no soil, herbicides or pesticides, and consumes up to 90% less water than growing crops in a field. The plants, which are provided with nutrients from food waste, grow quickly due to the use of LED lights powered by renewable energy. The farming system is provided by Bonbio, part of the OX2 group.