WELCOME to the farm of the future. There’s no need to pull on your boots, just step into the lift for a tour of the six floors of this high-rise farm, which includes all the elements of a country town, including barns, abattoir, power station and a fleet of lorries.
Instead of nestling on an idyllic rural hillside, this farm is stacked inside a gigantic factory building among the silos and cranes of Rotterdam harbour. It has a floor space of 400,000 square metres—roughly 60 soccer fields. The pigsties on your left contain 300,000 porkers. The henhouse to your right…
