Start-up to launch one of UK’s biggest vertical farms in London next year

Chris Davies and Zoisa North-Bond at the Harvest London site in Leyton

(Picture: Octopus Energy Business)

One of the UK’s largest vertical farms could be launched in London next year by a business which supplies Pizza Pilgrims with basil grown in a Leyton warehouse.

The 5,000 square metre site planned by Harvest London will be fully automated and net zero, said co-founder Chris Davies and would have the ability to supply 0.1% of the UK’s total herb import.