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The team organizes private and corporate tours of the box and conducts workshops for children and schools
to learn about aquaponics and sustainable food production.
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Besides the demonstration box, the company has almost 2,000 m of growing space in Beckton. The farm
also includes a visitor centre allowing people to understand more about sustainable food production in cities,
and enables the business to increase its social and environmental impact in the local community and engage
more people in learning about urban farming.
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2.3 Results
The system is 14 m2 and produces over 500 kg of salads and herbs and 160 kg of fish per year. At the
beginning it served local restaurants and was priced at a premium. They could now expand production since
the new farm produces more than 20 000 kg of sustainable salads and herbs and 4 000 kg of fish each year.
GrowUp is considering producing and selling additional small-scale GrowUp Box installations to fulfil requests
from local community organisers, schools and companies interested in funding social and educational
activities.

Figure 2  The seasonality of the grown plants and fish

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