Tom trained as a biologist and went onto work as an engineering and sustainability consultant. After he got really interested in food production, we were introduced by a friend and I managed to convince him that it was a good idea to set up a business. I have always been really passionate about food and about sustainability, but I used to work as a management consultant for IBM. It was like a big lightbulb moment - I loved the way that the system took the waste from one side and used it to grow something in the other.
It had been around for quite a while but this was in and there were very few examples of commercial farms. For so long in Asia, people have been flooding rice paddies, putting fish in them and letting the fish fertilise the plants and eat the bugs and then draining the fields.
This is part of the future, I think. I do not think that all food is going to be grown like this going forward, nor do I think the future of what we do is huge Skyscrapers growing food on every level. So then of course that throws up all sorts of questions like why? How would you find the space?
How could you make enough money from producing food to compete with residential or commercial properties? I was first interested in it in , we set the business up in , and we began selling produce about a year ago. Here we can produce around 20,kgs a year of all of our greens. To put that in perspective, one wholesaler might sell around 20,kgs of baby kale every 3 months.
We can produce 4 tons - kg - a year of tilapia here, and in perspective, most commercial farmers would start of upwards of tons.
So there are really exciting opportunities for us to expand. London has a well deserved reputation as a city that loves food, and whose consumers care about where their food comes from. Starting the business in London has given us access to a fantastic range of customers that we can work with, and allowed us to showcase our business to the world.
If we can make it work in London, we can make it work anywhere! They make fruit snacks from fruit that would otherwise go to waste and I really admire their ethics - they even have compostable packaging! For more information on GrowUp Urban Farm visit growup. Follow Victoria on Twitter vicstewart and Instagram victoriastewartpics. ES Money.
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