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Germany: New ‘supermarket of the future’ has a greenhouse on top

German retail giant opened their first Green Farming pilot store in Wiesbaden-Erbenheim

Hort Daily
June 1, 2021

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It is the first supermarket with a rooftop greenhouse in Europe and it combines retail with a basil farm and fish farm. “Since 2009, we have already built over 200 Green Buildings in Germany. The new store with integrated rooftop farm is the logical next step for us,” says Peter Maly, Divisional Director REWE Group and responsible for REWE stores in Germany.

“The Green Farming store is not just a supermarket, but also a production facility in the middle of the city. On the rooftop farm, which is operated by our partner ECF Farmsystems, 800,000 basil plants grow each year using aquaponics, which receive excrement from the fish that we breed on site as fertilizer. No pesticides are used in the process,” shows Jürgen Scheider, Chairman of the Management Board REWE Region Mitte. Rewe is Germany’s second-largest supermarket chain.

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