A Dubai hotel has taken a big step when it comes to sustainably sourcing ingredients – by setting up a vertical hydroponic farm on-site.
Having produce grown on the premises reduces its carbon footprint and transport costs for the buyer.
“We are doing it for two reasons. A chef will always want the freshest and best possible ingredients, and the need to think of sustainability is immense,” said the property’s executive chef, Tobias Pfister.
“We all need to reduce our carbon footprints. The food is literally grown here and then served on the tables.
“There’s no transportation or logistics involved. I can actually go in the morning to the farm and cut the lettuce and have it in a salad bowl that lunchtime.”
In vertical farming, crops are grown in layers on top of one another, while hydroponics is the process of growing plants in nutrient-rich liquid instead of soil.
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