A sprawling rooftop greenhouse on a former Sears department store warehouse in Montreal, full of cucumber and bean plants, doesn’t appear to have much in common with rows of radish and red lettuce leaves poking out of the dirt and hay in a Toronto backyard.
But Lufa Farms and Zawadi Farm are more similar than you might think. Both were started by Canadian immigrants who previously worked in the tech industry. Both bypass the supermarket and sell the food they grow directly to customers. And both are growing food in Canada’s biggest cities.
WATCH | Visit The Common Table, Lufa and Zawadi
