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Peru: This highway billboard grows organic lettuce and generates drinking water

We’ve seen vertical farms before, but this brings urban agriculture quite literally to the next level. In the Bujama region of Lima, Peru, thousands of lettuce heads are sprouting next to a major highway thanks to a very unusual source: a billboard.

FCB Mayo Peru and University of Engineering & Technology (UTEC)—the minds behind an innovative billboard that’s sucking up Lima’s notorious pollution and another billboard that’s turning the city’s humid air into drinking water—have come up with the “Air Orchard” billboard that can generate pollution-free produce.

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