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Our vision is to create a better food system, encompassing our rooftop farms and local agriculture in all shapes and sizes. It’s all happening on the Marketplace, our online farmer’s market, where you can find our sustainably-grown rooftop veggies and hundreds of local products from partner farms and foodmakers. Sign up, and you’ll join the ranks of those eating fresh, local, responsible.
We believe wholeheartedly that this is the most impactful way we can all come together to contribute to our local community. This means we choose to use reusable baskets and cooler bags, compostable packaging for all our rooftop grown veggies, and even remove packaging altogether for certain items such as apples and potatoes. As much as we try to reduce packaging, certain items such as meats, seafood and cheeses will require standard packaging for care and food safety reasons. You may not have tried their veggies, but you've definitely seen their tote bags.
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It's up to each partner organization to select which of their community members are most in need each week and allocate resources accordingly. You have until midnight the day before your delivery to suspend your basket, or choose to have it delivered to your door for just $5. If something happens and you can't get your basket once it's been sent out, we suggest sending someone to pick it up for you. Each week you’ll receive a notification letting you know it’s time to customize your order. We’ll have prepped a base basket for you with $30 worth of our seasonal fruit and veggies and from there, you can add or remove whatever you like (for $20 minimum). Once your order is finalized at midnight before your delivery day, our team gets to work prepping everything overnight.
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This is your go to start customizing your basket with rooftop-grown, picked-to-order veggies and thousands of products from our hundreds of partners, like eggs, dairy, pasta, bread, meats, vegan alternatives, and more. You’ve got three full days to do so, until midnight the eve of your delivery day. And, everything on our Marketplace is fresh, local, and responsibly produced. With a biochemistry degree from McGill University, Lauren serves as Greenhouse Director, where she oversees all farming and plant science activities for the company's rooftop greenhouses. She took on the challenge of developing Lufa Farms’ sustainable farming practices, growing food commercially in a polyculture setting using no synthetic pesticides. She’s also responsible for the Communications Department and safekeeping of the Lufa Farms vision, mission, and voice.
On the ground floor of the new greenhouse, a huge distribution center brings together nearly 2,000 grocery products for offer to "Lufavores," including restaurants. At Lufa, about 100 varieties of vegetables and herbs are grown year-round in hydroponic containers lined with coconut coir and fed liquid nutrients, including lettuce, cucumbers, zucchini, bok choy, celery and sprouts. “You know, every time we talk to someone about it, we feel like it’s the ’80s, and we’re holding a big solar panel trying to convince the room that this is the future,” Hage says.
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The Company is primarily looking for elements deemed critical to the renewable energy and high technology industries. Agritecture is an advisory services and technology firm focused on climate-smart agriculture, particularly urban and controlled environment agriculture. "What's a little crazy," he recalls, is that none of the founders "had grown a tomato in their life" before opening the business. It is currently working on the electrification of its fleet of delivery trucks and is in the process of exporting its model "to different cities around the world," starting with Canada and the United States, Sorret said. Lufa "more than doubled" its sales during the new coronavirus pandemic, a jump attributable "to contactless delivery from our online site," says Sorret. Fully automated, the new greenhouse also has a water system that collects and reuses rainwater, resulting in savings of "up to 90 percent" compared to a traditional farm.
The staff analyzed the pandemic’s trajectory and how they had to adapt at each step; reconfigured their warehouse floor to station workers further apart; then relaunched at the capacity they could handle, gradually scaling each week until they hit their usual stride. Lufa now has a team of eight programmers working on software and systems that manage e-commerce, warehouse management, routing, customer relationships, supplier fulfillment, pick-and-pack, vendor payments, delivery ETAs, and more. We went through a growth spurt reaching over 10,000 Lufavores and our team nearly doubled in size to keep up.
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“We said, ‘Instead of learning how the food world works, let’s just come up with what we feel the food world should be,’” says Mohamed Hage, 39, who cofounded Lufa with Lauren Rathmell in 2009. Schedule your weekly basket from Monday to Friday, and skip it the odd week or pause for longer when you need to. There can be no assurance that any forward-looking statements or information will prove to be accurate as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements or information. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements or information. The Company does not intend to, and nor does not assume any obligation to update such forward-looking statements or information, other than as required by applicable law. We share events, industry news, and company updates on a weekly or bi-weekly basis.
We want to reconnect people with where their food comes from by growing veggies right here in the city on rooftops, partnering up with hundreds of farmers and food makers, and providing it all to you through our online farmer’s market. The world’s biggest commercial rooftop greenhouse sits atop a former Sears warehouse in a semi-industrial northwestern quarter of Montreal. Early every morning, staff pick fresh vegetables, then bring them downstairs, where they get packed into heavy-duty plastic totes along with the rest of the day’s grocery orders. Lufa Farms says this latest rooftop greenhouse doubles its fresh vegetable production capacity, for a total 300,000 sqft. They began harvesting 10 varieties of tomatoes and three varieties of eggplants on June 26, reaching full production on August 11th.
Growing food locally on rooftops and sourcing from local farming families allowed us to swiftly adjust and respond to this demand. We saw what the future looks like and it’s all about local and sustainable,” says Mohamed Hage, Co-Founder and CEO of Lufa Farms. Lufa Farms launched their fourth commercial rooftop greenhouse in the borough of Saint-Laurent, Que. this week. We delivered over 20,000 baskets each week throughout Quebec while adding more electric vehicles to our fleet. We’re working with local nonprofits so that individuals and families in need can become Lufavores. Thanks to weekly Marketplace credits from our community pool and a 50% discount on us on all fruits and veg, hundreds of community members will get the chance to customize their own baskets and have access to fresh, local, responsible food.
A commercial business, Lufa Farms is advised by farmers, marketers, and university researchers. We built a second rooftop greenhouse in the Laval suburb of Montreal and got hundreds of local producers involved with the launch of our online farmers’ market, the Marketplace. The weekly baskets became fully customizable with the innovation of our own e-commerce platform and warehouse logistics software.
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