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Plantagon® CityFarm Stockholm invites the public to join them in creating 10 indoor farms in Stockholm by 2020

Plantagon® CityFarm is a new concept for using empty premises for resource efficient and sustainable food production in cities. The first plant is located under Stockholm’s iconic “DN Skrapan” and the goal is to have ten production facilities for indoor production in Stockholm by 2020. Now the public is invited to a crowdfunding campaign on the Fundedbyme Investor Platform to support the expansion
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