you'd think so

at least we haven't gone down the sea of plastic route that the spanish have in the wolds biggest green house west of almeria. huge plastic polution issues and disgusting abuse of low paid workers just so we can enjoy our cheapo tommies/cucumbers. User Posted Link

so big hat tip to the colman family or more so to the crown point estate which manages the colman land in trust that allowed the project to go ahead.



"the large tomato greenhouse near Bixley (Trowse area) Norwich is linked to the Colman family estate, but it is not directly run by the historic Colman mustard company itself.

Key project

The facility is part of Low Carbon Farming’s greenhouse programme, located on land owned by the Colman family’s Crown Point Estate near Norwich.

A major agri-energy greenhouse project was built on the Colman family’s Crown Point Estate outside Norwich.

The site uses waste heat from a nearby Anglian Water treatment plant to grow tomatoes hydroponically with lower carbon emissions.

The commercial operator growing produce is The Green House Growers, which runs the Norwich nursery producing tomatoes and cucumbers using recycled heat.

The connection comes from land ownership and estate development rather than day-to-day farming management:

Operational control sits with specialist greenhouse companies and investors rather than the mustard business itself.

What the Bixley greenhouse is trying to achieve

Key aims:

increase UK-grown tomatoes
reduce food miles
use low-carbon heating from wastewater infrastructure
improve domestic food resilience

The Norwich greenhouse is one of the UK’s largest examples of industrial-scale controlled-environment horticulture.

Posted By: Tombs, Apr 13, 20:52:15