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Europe’s largest vertical farm follows a dream

From the International Agriculture series

Phyllis Coulter
Jul 22, 2022
Jul 22, 2022

Anders Riemann stands in front of produce growing in Nordic Harvest, the vertical farming operation he founded near Copenhagen.
Photo by Phyllis Coulter

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TAASTRUP, Denmark — Anders Riemann had one of those life-defining moments that changed everything for him. It led the successful investment banker to quit his job to create the first industrial- scale vertical farm in Europe.

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