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Introducing Wesh Grow: The Latest Addition to the Kroptek Network

Kroptek is pleased to announce that we have partnered with Wesh Grow, an urban farming business based in Paris and Marseille. Wesh Grow is the latest in a network that spans the Atlantic, from New Brunswick to Paris, that cuts food miles, boosts local economies, and delivers gourmet produce to consumers and high-end restaurants. 

Together we will look to further our shared aim of developing urban farms that can deliver a variety of gourmet produce to consumers and restaurants locally.

Wesh Grow was first launched as part of Paris’ plan to give unused brownfield sites, such as car parks, to farmers to increase the share of locally produced food from 25% to 50% by 2030. Today, they use rooftops and indoor farms to cultivate over 100 varieties of microgreens, rare herbs, and edible flowers without the use of chemicals or pesticides.

Its hyper-local and nutrient-rich products are served in over 500 restaurants across the Paris region, including the Michelin-starred Granite and the Le Jules Verne on the second floor of the Eiffel Tower as well as luxury hotels such as Le Meurice.

Due to its client’s exacting needs, Wesh Grow needed to develop its growing methods with a focus on flavours that could exceed the expectations of high-profile chefs and be served at their high-end restaurants. As a result, Kroptek’s specialism in LED technology and experience across a range of different Controlled Environment Agriculture projects proved indispensable in helping Wesh Grow determine the perfect growing conditions for their gourmet produce.

Now as Wesh Grow looks to expand, it has opened up the unique opportunity to combine efforts with Kroptek’s La Boite a Champignons (LBAC), France’s leading urban mushroom farm, to realize both companies’ ambition of playing a key role in Paris’ effort to be the global capital of local urban agriculture and sustainable food production.

La Boite a Champignons and Wesh Grow
LBAC’s Oyster Mushrooms

Looking Ahead…

Together, Kroptek and Wesh Grow will implement their shared aims by combining their diversity of experience and abilities with the view to grow high-quality produce in multiple cities using scalable models of sustainable food production. Kroptek will provide horticultural solutions and strategic industry experience, while Wesh Grow provides expertise in growing gourmet quality produce and urban farming operations.

Wesh Grow will now expand their operations to a space four times the size of its current operation, catering for ever-increasing client demand and further diversifying its products. Crucially because of this partnership, it can combine Kroptek’s mushroom expertise into its portfolio and ultimately leverage Kroptek’s fast-growing commercial franchise with national food distributors.

Similarly, the move further marks Kroptek’s long-term ambition of developing a network of sustainable farms across the globe. A network that facilitates collaboration between farms, allowing best-practice and know-how to be shared without the impediment of competition.

If you’re interested in how Kroptek’s global network of farms offers a unique alignment that brings the sustainable aims of indoor farming as close as possible to consumers’ demands, get in touch with us today.