Discover the world’s largest urban rooftop farm.

In Paris, farming on a rooftop is not just an idea. Here crops are grown without soil with a specialised system of pipes that showers a nutrient-rich water mixture. Footage from the show Europe from Above.

Published 29 Jun 2021, 17:16 BST
Discover the world’s largest urban rooftop farm.

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