Farm-to-table restaurant dining is all the rage. But at an upscale resort in the Caribbean — specifically in Turks and Caicos – you can have an unparalleled cuisine experience that actually comes from Seven Stars Resort & Spa, Grace Bay’s own farm.
It’s actually from a company called “Freight F arm,” and it’s a huge 1800-square-foot container farm that cost the resort $120,000.
This is not your typical little backyard herb garden that you’d normally find at a hotel.
Robin Jance, the Food-and-Beverage Director at the resort, granted me an exclusive interview for Forbes.com, and he told me all about it. “It’s a hydroponic farm that uses water instead of soil. We control the climate, the nutrients, the air, and the LED lights to imitate daylight. But we are not farmers.” He added that “We are the end user and the grower.”
The container farm is a hospitality game-changer, especially in the Caribbean – solving for both the lack of locally grown produce, as well as the need for sustainable, insecticide-free solutions.
Read the complete article at www.forbes.com.