Plantagon

(cont'd from yesterday's post)

Plantagon City Farm's first indoor farm will be operational this spring in the city of Stockholm, Sweden. They are seeking investors to build another nine in Sweden by 2020.

The building's south side will be a 70' high greenhouse for vegetables, with the north side being entirely offices for people. Carbon dioxide from the people side will be pushed to the south side for the plants, while oxygen from the plant side will provide fresh air for people on the north side. 

It was collaboratively designed to recycle waste, water, air. They claim that they can produce on this land ten times more food than a flat farm on the ground with the same footprint.



The plan sounds good, but like all business plans it will need to produce products that customers want at prices they are willing to pay. The company's revenue will have to cover all costs with enough surplus to pay back their investors, who were willing to take a chance on them by putting up the money to get it going.

Tomorrow . . the biggest urban farm in the world