farming methods

  • This Robot-Run Farm Can Harvest 30,000 Heads of Lettuce a Day

    Kyoto-based Spread is so sure of human farmers’ eventual obsolescence, they’ve announced their plan to unveil what they claim will be the world’s first fully automated, large-scale lettuce factory by the summer of 2017.

  • The Sweetest Rhubarb Is Forced Inside a Pitch-Dark Shed

    In West Yorkshire, "forcing" rhubarb allows the plant to develop outside before it is dug up and placed in a lightless building for the later stages of its life, where it grows so rapidly that you can hear it squeak and pop.

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