A rendering of the restaurant, designed by TKI and PS Studio.

Thomas Klein International designs restaurant with internal farm

Eye of Dubai
May 4, 2010

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Thomas Klein International, the food and beverage and design consultants behind the project, and PS Studio decided to introduce the innovative vertical farming concept with the design of the restaurant to complement the menu concept and the quality of fresh ingredients used in the preparation of the food.

Prime and Toast is well known for the quality of the produce used in their large selection of sandwiches and salads, incorporating only the freshest ingredients and vegetables as well as the best prime USDA beef in their dishes. The main feature of the restaurant is therefore the vertical farming section, and the rest of the restaurant was designed around this unique and innovative concept, said Daniel During, Managing Partner of Thomas Klein International (TKI).

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Johanna (Jo) Hearron-Heineman checks the water lines on hydroponic butter lettuce, grown in a Racine industrial building on the fourth floor. The water for the lettuce comes from the tilapia also raised on site. Hearron-Heineman operates the business with her husband Joe Heineman, doing business as Natural Green Farms. Photo by Kristyna Wentz-Graff.

Old factory now home to tilapia, lettuce

By Karen Herzog
Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
July 15, 2010

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Racine – Imagine raising vegetables in an abandoned, four-story manufacturing building. And doing it without soil.

An old JI Case building once used to manufacture plows for farm fields is being transformed into a dirtless vertical farm where fish and lettuce are grown in a symbiotic system.

The farm, in a part of the city that once was an industrial hub, potentially could produce the same amount of food as 40 acres of land without the use of pesticides or fertilizer, according to the entrepreneurs behind Natural Green Farms at 615 Marquette St.

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80 recycled industrial sacks growing food in the Kalasatama (Fish Harbor) area. See more photos of the project here.

Grown in Helsinki

By Päivi Raivio
Dodo

There is a quickly growing number of residents, who want to grow their own food within a short distance of their locality. A tradition of council-managed allotments is still going strong, but new areas for allotments are not being dedicated in the needed pace. A queue of thousands waiting for an allotment is a proof that there is a real need for a greater number of farming plots in the city.

Dodo, an environmental NGO, started a wider movement of “guerilla gardening” by obtaining unused land for growing vegetables near the rail tracks and since then, the phenomena has grown at mounting pace – just as the carrots in our growing boxes.

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