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Imagine being able to buy tomatoes every day of the year. No, not those tomatoes -- I'm talking about UK tomatoes. And cucumbers and peppers too. Well, all three are now a reality thanks to the fantastically named Thanet Earth, a huge (and I mean huge) set of hydroponic greenhouses in Thanet, Kent.
But how can this industrial way of growing food 365 days a year be called green? Easy: although it's not organic, you'll be eating food that's grown in this country and wasn't transported halfway around the world in carbon-emitting ships and trucks. And the greenhouses that grow the food aren't as bad for the environment as you would think 17 structures -- each the size of ten football pitches -- could have been.
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