Dutch Tomatoes Grow Faster Than Your WiFi in High-Tech Glass Prisons
Meet Looye Kwekers, the Dutch tomato whisperers growing tomato plants a foot a week in gigantic greenhouses that look like spaceship hangars. Located in Westland, Netherlandsâbasically Maryland's farmier cousin that exports $140 billion in crops yearly, trailing only Uncle Samâs $176 billion. Their secret sauce? LED lights that paint the sky orange, purple, and green like a Pride parade rave and using half the electricity of prehistoric sodium lamps. Bees, 800 strong per 'bee hotel', keep busy pollinating these juicy red Olympiansâbecause robots still can't find tomatoes hidden in leafy hairdos. Farmers hanging off scissor lifts rewiring tomato jumbotrons weekly might be peak cottagecore meets NASA. Water use down 90%, tomatoes flying out within 24 hours post-harvestâthese tomatoes sprint from greenhouse to stomach faster than you can say 'Tomatocalypse Now.'
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Dutch greenhouses are growing tomatoes a foot a week using LEDs that turn night into a rave while human farmers cling to scissor lifts like plant acrobats. Meanwhile, 800 bees per box earn better room service than most Airbnb listings. Farming just got sci-fi.
Only in the Netherlands do tomatoes grow faster than your Amazon delivery, get serviced by 800 bees in bee hotels, and require farmers to channel their inner yankee doodle on scissor lifts every week.
Forget Mars colonizationâDutch greenhouses with disco LEDs and foot-tall tomatoes are the real interplanetary greenhouses. Even their bees get hotel accommodations while robots try to figure out where the fruit went.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 9/27/2025 | Author: Abby Narishkin,David Valerio,Jessica Orwig
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