Opening vertical farm in Bleiswijk, NL

Jan-Willem van den Beukel, alderman of Lansingerland:"Greenhouse horticulture plays a major role both within the Netherlands and worldwide."

Jolanda Heijstek, managing director of Greenport West-Holland:"Vertical farming is about Feeding and Greening the world."

Gemma Tacken, Wagening UR, has done a lot of research into this market demand

Monique Bijlaard, Wageningen UR, is responsible for Innovation & Demonstration within the fieldlab.

Jan-Willem Donkers, Inholland University of Applied Sciences, is in charge of the Education and Development Fieldlab.

Sjaak Bakker, Wageningen UR, and Aad van den Berg, Delphy:"The information we will obtain from the trials here will not only be of interest to the vertical farm sector. Traditional greenhouses will also benefit from them."

Flags in the top to celebrate this opening

Lisanne Meulendijks showed us the vertical farm at Delphy Improvement Centre

We were allowed to enter the climate chambers

This room has 5 towers, 4 tables each

One of the climate chambers is a multi layer one

Floating growth system

Off course sensors plays a big role in this fieldlab

The other vertical farm is used for tomato cultivation where Signify's Dynamic 500 mmol lights are used

Infinite Acres built the vertical farm at Delphy

Sectors

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Opening vertical farm in Bleiswijk, NL