Supermarket Marks & Spencer (M&S) is bringing vertical farming to six further stores in London. The company has been testing the concept at its flagship store on Oxford Street and plans to expand it into other stores. Infarm's locations are cloud-connected to allow for remote operation from its central platforms; as such, employees visit the in-store farms just twice a week to harvest and pack mature greens, while replanting new seedlings. As well as offering fresh produce, the vertical farms reportedly use 95% less water and 99.5% less space than soil-based farms.
Supermarket Marks & Spencer (M&S) is bringing vertical farming to six further stores in London. The initiative is part of a collaboration with German hydroponic vertical farm company Infarm, which began with a partnership at the Clapham Junction M&S food hall in September 2019. Infarm's locations are cloud-connected to allow for remote operation from its central platforms; as such, employees visit the in-store farms just twice a week to harvest and pack mature greens, while replanting new seedlings. As well as offering fresh produce, the vertical farms reportedly use 95% less water and 99.5% less space than soil-based farms.