Largest urban farm opens in abandoned factory in Netherlands BBC News — Transcript

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1. 0:00it started life as a television and
2. 0:04telephone factory built for the
3. 0:06electronics company Philips back in the
4. 0:081950s when they moved out this building
5. 0:11was left empty abandoned until now look
6. 0:15up there's a sign on the side the new
7. 0:18residents have just moved in we're now
8. 0:21seven storeys above the city we've
9. 0:24escaped from the exhaust fumes and were
10. 0:26inside a large urban oasis surrounded by
11. 0:31sweet scented Tomatoes silky over jeans
12. 0:34and a patchwork of microgreens if you
13. 0:39can be here and smell and fuel and taste
14. 0:42everything all at once then you're
15. 0:44totally consumed with what you're doing
16. 0:45you're not just showing a tomato in your
17. 0:47face so that you can have your lunch
18. 0:49quickly the farm is designed to be self
19. 0:52sustainable and produce zero waste they
20. 0:55might not realize it but these tilapia
21. 0:58are playing a vital role the fish are
22. 1:01doing two things for us here they're
23. 1:03they're producing our fertilizer for our
24. 1:05plants which is really important because
25. 1:07in the city you don't have cows and pigs
26. 1:09or sheep to produce the nutrients so we
27. 1:12do that with the fish another thing that
28. 1:14it does is creates a source of protein
29. 1:15in the city as well Mark's ambition is
30. 1:19to supply a thousand families a week his
31. 1:23initial challenge will be to convince
32. 1:25those customers to swap their
33. 1:27comparatively cheap supermarket produce
34. 1:30I think it's a little bit more expensive
35. 1:32therefore it really has to differentiate
36. 1:35itself from what we now already find in
37. 1:37the supermarket so it should be ultra
38. 1:39fresh ultra tasty and the other thing is
39. 1:41it has a high tech nature therefore some
40. 1:44consumers will like this but others will
41. 1:47probably prefer the traditional
42. 1:48agriculture out in the field with the
43. 1:51light from the Sun and water from the
44. 1:53rain
45. 1:55enthusiastic chef was the first to buy
46. 1:58into the concepts if this pioneering
47. 2:01project is a success the team are hoping
48. 2:04to inspire people in places like Glasgow
49. 2:07Manchester and Cardiff to cultivate
50. 2:10their own urban farmlands in the sky on
51. 2:14a Harlequin BBC news in The Hague