A purple glow illuminates stacked boxes where lettuce, herbs and kale will soon be sprouting at one of Europe's biggest "vertical farms" just opened in a warehouse in Copenhagen's industrial zone. Fourteen layers of racks soar from floor to ceiling in this massive, 7,000-square-metre (75,350-square-foot) hangar used by Danish start-up Nordic Harvest.
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00:03 In the beginning of corona, when the different countries
00:27 shut down their borders, people are more aware
00:32 that the food supply chain should be secured.
00:37 And one of the ways to do that is vertical farming,
00:40 a local production.
00:42 Our vision is that it can actually
00:44 be done taking some of the food production
00:46 back into the cities, where you can
00:52 grow on a much smaller land space optimized in the height.
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