:ufa Farms
Lufa Farms
The indoor farm’s first harvest.
Lufa Farms in Quebec is integrating greenhouse technologies into an indoor farm to maximize local production year-round.
Lufa is an innovative company that essentially created an online farmer’s market, where people can order fresh grown food to their homes.
But Lufa is also a major grower.
In the borough of Saint-Laurent, a former Sears headquarters is now home to a complete urban food ecosystem, including the world’s largest rooftop greenhouse, a new distribution centre, and now a new indoor farm that feeds thousands of customers every week.
“Having over a decade of experience in urban agriculture, we realized the importance of providing plants with ideal growing conditions,” says Lufa Farms co-founder and co-CEO Mohamed Hage.
“Our challenge was to build a simple and energy-efficient indoor farm that compares in cost to traditional greenhouse growing.”
Featuring green automation technology typically used in greenhouses, this farm is equipped with a single-story hydroponic growing system and 1,000 LED lights, growing lettuce, spinach, celery, basil, kohlrabi, fennel, and watercress.
The farm uses no fossil fuels.
Designed to demonstrate the viability of low-cost indoor farming at its full potential, this polyculture farm will harvest 20,000 vegetables and herbs daily.