French startup grows mushrooms and other vegetables with LED lamps

The application of LED lights in plant lighting, combined with vertical farm technology, can turn idle spaces in cities into agricultural production bases. A start-up company located in Paris, France, uses agricultural technology to grow mushrooms in underground parking lots, providing fresh agricultural products to the urban population and shortening the distance from farmland to the dining tables.

It is reported that the Paris government built many underground parking lots in the 1960s and 1970s, but as the driving population decreased, these spaces were also idle. The French start-up La Caverne, through the urban farming plan, chose to locate the parking lot in Paris. The underground parking lot grows organic mushrooms and vegetables.

La Caverne was founded by engineer Jean-Noel Gertz and agronomist Théophile Champagnat. They had previously carried out a farming experiment plan in an idle arms storage room in Strasbourg, France in 2017, and then moved to Paris with an improved farming system, and leased an idle building in a building from a local social organization. Underground Parking Lot.

This 3,500-square-meter underground farm, located in the underground parking lot, where La Caverne has erected LED lighting fixtures, uses hydroponics to produce mushrooms and other lettuce and herbs that require less sunlight, estimated annually. Can produce 54 tons of crops. Harvested agricultural products are sold directly to consumers, restaurants, or small supermarkets, and social housing residents in underground parking lots can also enjoy preferential purchase prices.