They want to keep the continents future to. Be part of an enduring african youngsters as they share their stories their dreams and their challenges. The Seventy Seven percent. Platform for its charter. The fleet. So if we can do it here it can be done anywhere this is the most challenging place to do. Bars winters are dark with temperatures down to minus twenty five degrees celsius the ground is permafrost. Long your bunions fall apart no way is the worlds northernmost Town Funny Real Sides here one man grows herbs in vegetables Benjamin Vidmar a chef from florida. Is there more to it than just
a crazy idea. For think its good to miss one tree for the fourth one of them. 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 crescent puzzle i. Think it is see that weve got the humidity up now off to remove the tower and. Yeah because we lift
school everything is just so perfect. to benjamin s 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 it s the first marriage and the rest i m so nervous i don t know if you want to. know that you know the first no reason so i m very i m very happy but i don t want to tell you how to do it i know normally when other people come that i m kind of like you know the one who s here the local one but. at seven pm benjamin s work day is far from over but he s still got enough to deliver i think it was better when we used the bigger ones have you seen the oh yeah yeah yeah because they are you serious yes much easier we re running out of. that one they re fun a student from germany hope so the seats for chris parsley and basil.
do you see it sex how the press isn t he six days old it s relatively fast but that s what s good about it you can purchase quite a lot here. in the medical field he appointed c.e.o. . john is well aware that spitzbergen has a dismal carbon footprint she takes a strictly objective view of her work here. it s been presented them i noticed personally i don t see spitzbergen as a place where people should live and because it s got such an extreme climate and it s so and sustainable to live here but i will never come a time when people don t live here anymore and that s actually so i think it s a very good idea to try growing on plants here. standing here close on supplants. benjamin has enough to keep them busy even through the dark winter noble it acquires or time of year. actually enjoy the season but
first provide our lights provide some humidity we have to provide some nutrients. to three pm it s pitch dark out. benjamin vid man s worries he won t be able to supply all his customers his capacities are strictly limited and demand is growing. spitzbergen line is 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 surf. both. get some greens pretty. soon. and the photo shows also on the recipient is probably good to
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 co-work even here in the world s northernmost tell if this technique that we develop their careers to grow for them as inner city 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.