A berry good idea? The West Sussex farm growing strawberries in December

A berry good idea? The West Sussex farm growing strawberries in December

LED lighting in vast greenhouses is enabling the fruit to be grown all year long on a commercial scale for the first time ever.

A Berry Good Idea? The West Sussex Farm Growing Strawberries In December

LED lighting in vast glasshouses is enabling berries to be grown all year on a commercial scale for the first time ever. It means less reliance on fruit flown in from countries like Egypt. “The LED lighting is the prime reason for successful growing,” said Bartosz Pinkosz, operations director of The Summer Berry. “If it was not a sunny day, the LED lighting would create enough energy for leaves to absorb that energy, take it in and deliver the e…