Australia: Greenhouse vegetables come to the Wheatbelt
Tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, capsicums, leafy greens and a variety of herbs are now readily available in towns surrounding the Arthur River greenhouse site, and if the first crop is anything to go by, there's plenty more to come.
The half hectare "smart shade house" was imported from Canada and took six weeks to install at the end of 2016.
The first plots were planted in the height of summer in mid-January, but controlled environmental conditions have allowed the horticultural crop to thrive without the use of any chemicals.
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