The outdoors may be covered in a blanket of white in January, but at the London Food Bank these days everything seems to be coming up green.
After a year of planning and with donations from the community, the new greenhouse is bearing fruit – or in this case vegetables.
“This is what Londoners a few years ago wanted more than anything else, to donate funds towards fresh fruits, fresh produce and that’s what they have done,” says Glen Pearson from the London Food Bank. “So we’ve just taken it to a different level so we can grow our own as well.”
The greenhouse is expected to grow about 15,000 plants a year which amounts to about four tons of food.
In the winter months they are growing cold weather plants like lettuce, spinach and even kale, but once summer arrives they will switch to tomatoes, cucumbers and fruit-bearing plants.
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