North Yorkshire horticulture research facility Stockbridge Technology Centre will be showcasing its innovative LED lighting for the first time at the Great Yorkshire Show this week (14-16 July).
The team at Stockbridge have been invited onto the Meet the Grower stand by Mike Prest from the Yorkshire Agriculture Society to show visitors how LED lights can revolutionise urban farming.
Stockbridge Technology Centre's Science Director, Dr Martin McPherson, is looking forward to showcasing the LED lights for the first time away from Stockbridge House: "We will be recreating mini versions of some of the exciting trials that we are doing with LED lights so that members of the public can see how they influence all year round cropping and understand the opportunities that are likely to be available for both commercial and amateur growers in the future."
Dr McPherson and fellow Stockbridge board member, Nigel Bartle, will also be addressing the audience at 1pm on 16th July on the Garden Show Stage with a talk entitled ‘An Example of Innovation in Horticultural Practice' with Nigel talking about LED lighting in tomatoes and Martin talking about the next level of city, or urban, farming.
The Meet the Grower area is designed to encourage visitors to the show to talk to producers to learn more about where their food comes from. Members of the East Yorkshire Local Food Network will be exhibiting and their challenge is for people to try as many different products as they can, from (Hull) pies, (Amos and Thom's) popcorn and from heirloom tomatoes to tipples from Leventhorpe Vineyard in Leeds.
There will also be flower arranging demonstrations using flowers grown by East Yorkshire flower farmer, Gill Hodgson from Flowers from the Farm and a prize draw to win a local food hamper supplied by Manor Farm Shop in Hutton Cranswick.
Stockbridge Technology Centre is an independent, not for profit organisation that is wholly owned by the UK horticultural industry and is a centre of excellence in technology transfer to agriculture and horticulture.
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Stockbridge Technology Centre
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