CAN (ON): Toronto entrepreneur brings vertical farms to Windsor
Tabakman’s agriculture and technology company — Local Grown Salads — is taking root inside the Forster Community Hub.
The old Forster high school’s computer lab houses the steel frame work for four vertical farms, including one that’s teeming with several types of kale and lettuce along with thyme, arugula and Italian dandelion. It has the potential to grow 70 plant varieties year round.
Because of the density of the plantings, each 32-square-foot unit can produce the equivalent of one acre of land over the course of a year.
Read more at the Windsor Star (Mary Caton)