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This hobarts winters are dark with temperatures down to minus twenty five degrees celsius the ground is permafrost. Long year bunions fall apart norway is the worlds northernmost town funny real sights here one man grows herbs in vegetables Benjamin Vidmar a chef from florida. Is there more to it than just a crazy idea. This one looks good to them in this one tree for the fourth one is on the three of us Benjamin Vidmar and his Employee Higgins Ska harvest the crops grown in the lab as he calls this room with its almost tropical climate in the midst of a frozen wilderness the chefs are waiting for his christened basil i. Think did you see that we got the human now off to remove the tower and. Yet because we lift it from twenty four to five yeah definitely. They learned to farm by Trial And Error given the lack of experience to draw from whats obvious is that the greenhouses are of no use outside during the long arctic nights. In the dark season we grow mostly endorse and we have to first provide lights provide some humidity we have to provide some nutrients. For. A three pm its pitch dark out. Benjamin vidmar is worried he wont be able to supply all his customers as capacities are strictly limited and demand is growing. Spitzbergen lines over a thousand kilometers north of mainland norway all the provisions have to be flown in. Benjamin vidmar is the only supplier of fresh local ingredients to the cooks and chefs here. This fellow said. There are some deals for you. To. Talk to other shows who also. Was a tremendous problem to do. You have been for sure you know. Its amazing to have this fresh and small but given collects the leftover Plant Material for composting thank you ever since you take care you could just thank you. For about half the year its freezing cold and dark and long years beyond just over two thousand people and Three Thousand polar bears live here the tourists mainly come to see the bears these are hard core travelers here for an adventure holiday. Because of the cold and dependence on imports long europeans environmental footprint is disproportionately large benjamin hopes to reduce it. Hello my name is Benjamin Button mar and during this tour with you we will visit a little bit about what i do here what i grow also the lob in the dome and then after we will go inside of the gallery there is like a kitchen. We have a place where we can eat and like a workshop so we will prepare some food together theres tomato and some fresh local bay so that weve grown here we have a rigidly from Florida Benjamin worked as a ships cook and came to spitzbergen ten years ago. To Winter Temperatures complains to minus twenty degrees celsius in the dome but in spring things begin to change. We have some days you know over the in the midnight sun theres sun in theory twenty four hours a day so it just moves around in the sky and it can get like twenty five thirty degrees in here i really like to do some root vegetables carrots potatoes would be nice the doma sticks out like a rock from the snow drifts all around. You have to understand its very simple this dome but this ive been speaking about it for so long that people got so sick of hearing about it you know and you just have to think it was empty like this there was like nothing here and i said i want to greenhouse i want to greenhouse and its because i was growing endorse were going to go there next so for me growing endorse it didnt make sense to run the lights for eighteen hours a day when we have twenty four hours of light and pain electricity for nothing so i was trying to think of the smartest way to organize it so i said i have to get outside this all started as an experiment and it started for me wanting to have the freshest food possible thats the only way i didnt started to save the world i didnt started to i just said you know i wanted to have the freshest food possible. And now visitors come to see and taste that freshness and feel the abrupt change from arctic wilderness to green house. We can take some of this bay so today for the tomatoes we have a bit of green here we have some solids and parsley we have chilies there are growing there we have some cute cumbers there is even experimenting with growing tomatoes here. Theyd be the northernmost on earth right next to the northernmost compost heap that receives all the leftover Vegetable Matter he collects from its customers nothing goes to waste. So here we have the worms. And i use them to make compost here and basically compost the waste that i get back from the hotel going to restaurants. And purple. He uses a bit of homegrown basil for the meal hell be preparing with his visitors the highlight of the stay for the mainland little to Arctic Spitzbergen isnt the words. Of course you have to take our shoes off. So people on the warm food into people in the cold food i think is good the most important thing is that we need to start to desserts so really five hues of the other thing you just said it in cold water. Ok. Yeah. So its not really possible to be one hundred percent selfsufficient here it would be very very expensive and difficult to grow everything that we need to survive so we dont even look at that we look at the growth percentage like a portion of that a typical meal is reindeer meets with vegetables and with potatoes and. Only homegrown ingredients is basil. Its highly unlikely one will ever grow here its imported from spain the ladies of course the first bottle while the gents keep busy shopping vegetables. Suggest actually do all of the course and like culture. The majority of tourists dont come from norway good they come from all corners of the world to this north and tip the most difficult or because i had some kosher very good news from israel. And that was a good thing or because they wanted like they didnt want you know. We had to have all new to have the by Cutting Boards have been my parts and i said oh thats not in the budget they say ok we buy so they bought everything and like we did it was fun i learned a lot it looks beautiful scarce enjoyed delicious meals here but what do they think of active gardening i. Think its wonderful. You know now whats happening with nature and. Im going on you have to do something because yeah basically do you think so. Base a marriage and i think. Im here with my family and we really love it here and its like we always want to go away but then soon as we go away we all miss it so. So then we run back here is this i think its such an easy life here its like we live in a bubble you know its like its not a real world here everything was just five minutes you can be everywhere in the School Everything is just so perfect. To benjamins children have left the island and communicate via internet from the mainland. Benjamin may feel completely at home and spitzbergen now but not quite yet in mainstream Norwegian Society and have people like you know its the first no reason to rest im so nervous i dont know if the mode its. Not the first no reason so im very im very happy but i dont want to tell you how to do it no normally when other people come that im kind of like you know the one whos here the local one but. Seven pm benjamins work day is far from over but hes still got enough to deliver i think it was better when we used the bigger ones have you seen the oh yeah yeah yeah. Yes much easier were running out of. That one there from a capsule a student from germany hope so the seats for Chris Parsley and basil. Yes its. The crest is only six days old its relatively fast thats whats good about it you can purchase quite a lot he had dreamed of going to feel important. And is well aware that spitzbergen has a dismal Carbon Footprint she takes a strictly objective view of her work here. Its been physically seminude us personally i dont see spitzbergen as a place where people should never think because its got such an extreme climate and its so unsustainable to live here but i will never come a time when people dont live here anymore or deception so i think its a very good idea to try growing on plants here. Standing here and supplants. Benjamin has enough to keep them busy even through the Dark Winter Noble it acquires a time of year. Actually enjoy the season but so how do we cope with the light season and thats the challenge. Season is very relaxed dont have to do too much but when the light comes back we did very busy and you have to run all of the time so the challenge is you dont know how to start it all but for me to start season is just take youve. Mentioned invid mark isnt about to take it easy hes chasing a dream hes got plans to open his own restaurant after all hes a chef by trade but he wants to make sure that the restaurant doesnt produce any waste hes already got the financing and partners lined up for our Kitchen Counter for food here and the main big restaurant. Because theres little thats really. On the menu will be very original especially for spitzbergen. We want to have more of like an hour to q. Should menu and we dont want to have any burgers or any pizza so we wanted to like for example ingredients that you find in the arctic cod salmon arctic char sea read Reindeer Lamb and we want to do some different interpretations were there for example like a reindeer taco. Benjamin intends to use only fresh vegetables if he hopes to prove that a closed Loop Recycling operation cowork even here in the worlds northernmost tell. This technique that we developed here can be used to grow food in this inner city it can be used to grow food on different islands so it has many. Applications to other places as well so if we can do it here it can be done anywhere this is the most challenging place to play. The next revolution kicks off at the cash register. In school come see digital be claims launching Technology Get a form of money without middleton our banks and the banks a monopoly doesnt exist or is that the future of Business Transactions and the end of banking as we know it the clock changes residence. Next to the. Cleaners weekend escapers. Nobody from which. Now body clocks in. Recent lab studies have shown a sense of time is routine and see. What happens if we just get. This weeks edition is devoted to the upcoming switch to daylight savings time. To. Sixty minutes on g. W. Coach of bridget kelly. Sure link to news from africa. 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